Ballistic Missile Defense: Actions Needed to Improve Training Integration and Increase Transparency of Training Resources

Abstract

There are several levels of DOD organizations that are involved in ballistic missile defense operations. In general, these organizations can be categorized into "tiers" as shown in the figure below: Integrating training is training that includes live participants from more than one tier and/or multiple organizations from within the same tier. Live participants refer to personnel who participate in the exercises using equipment that requires them to operate as they would in an actual ballistic missile defense engagement. According to a Chairman of then Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction the joint training vision is for everyone required to conduct military operations to be trained under realistic conditions and to exacting standards prior to execution of those operations. The instruction also sets out tenets of joint training, including "train the way you operate" and states that joint training must be based on relevant conditions and realistic standards. In addition, according to joint doctrine for joint operations to counter theater air and missile threats across the range of military operations, coordination between organizations involved in cross-boundary missile defense operations must be rehearsed-i.e., trained-not just planned. Depending on the type of ballistic missile defense engagement, not all four tiers need to be involved in each event for the training to be realistic; however, ballistic missile defense operations generally necessitate integration both horizontally across a tier, and vertically between at least two tiers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA545193

Entities

People

  • Brenda M. Waterfield
  • Erik Wilkins-mckee
  • Joel Grossman
  • John H. Pendleton
  • Josph J. Watkins
  • Karen N. Harms
  • Meghan E. Cameron
  • Patricia W. Lentini
  • Randy F. Neice
  • Rebecca Shea

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Congress
  • Defense Systems
  • Education
  • Military Science
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Training Devices
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Central Command
  • United States European Command
  • United States Government
  • United States Northern Command
  • United States Pacific Command
  • United States Strategic Command
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Missile Defense Systems.