Ops Officials Conduct New Training

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Ops Officials Conduct New Training
February 17, 2009
Air Force Print News|by Mary McHale

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - Positive progress continues for the Air Forces Northern Distributed Mission Operations program as the first individualized warfighter training event was held at the 601st Air and Space Operations Center.

DMO is a complex and comprehensive series of interconnected, manned command, control, communications and computer equipment supporting the Homeland Defense mission here, enabling users to experience and present a vast array of Homeland Defense-oriented training scenarios. Prior to this event, DMO assets were primarily used as training tools during exercises.

"Our goal from day one, four and half years ago, was to reach a point where individual air and space operations center, or AOC training could be accomplished via DMO," said Steve Boe, AFNORTH's DMO program manager. "It's a ground breaking event for the AFNORTH DMO team and my hat's off to them for making it happen."

D.W. Smith, Aeronautical Radio, Inc., senior manager supporting the AFNORTH DMO program, said individual events could not be presented previously because the infrastructure did not exist.

"The AFNORTH DMO team built the infrastructure from the bottom up using a building block approach," said Mr. Smith. "All of the C2 systems -- communications, chat systems, simulation network, models and simulation target generators -- had to be designed and integrated for a stand-alone training operation. It had to realistically replicate and integrate with real-world Homeland Defense systems. It is a true success story."


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