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How data became the focal point of military readiness
With more than 20 years of global military expertise, 4C Strategies is a leading provider of training readiness solutions via its Exonaut platform. The company outlines its take on the current and future state of military readiness and the steps needed to foresee and overcome the global challenges that lie ahead.
prolonged period of peace and stability in the western world was shattered by war in Ukraine, while internal power struggles and political subjugation have descended Sudan, Myanmar, Peru and Afghanistan into civil violence. In response, many governments have increased defence budgets as military preparedness and readiness becomes a necessity. But how and who determines if the spending is put to proper use? Ensuring and achieving that heightened level of readiness becomes the biggest challenge. In addition to the appropriate workforce, equipment and support, training and exercising becomes the focal point for analysis. Using technology to objectively guide training and ensure capability gaps are identified and closed is paramount.
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like a jigsaw puzzle, the meaning that lies within data is only visible once structure, order and a good deal of context is applied. Managing training progression, both in individual and collective training environments, depends entirely upon the ability to contextualise data and enable evidence-based decision making: ■
First, trainee or collective groups must understand where they are on training pathways and how to improve to meet requirements.
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Second, trainees need routine access to training simulations at the point of need, providing evidence to facilitate early trainer and chain of command situational awareness.
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Third, trainers need to contextualise training audiences’ performance in
“Ensuring and achieving that heightened level of readiness becomes the biggest challenge. In addition to the appropriate workforce, equipment and support, training and exercising becomes the focal point for analysis.”
Assessing effective training and exercising Historically, measures of performance (MOP) and effectiveness (MOE) were largely subjective in nature. Rapidly expanding growth in digitalisation has enabled a more data-focused, objective approach. As such, how to manage and leverage data plays an increasingly larger part of military readiness. Each individual participant in a training exercise represents a rich vein of quantifiable insight that, as part of a larger picture, captures the overall state of readiness at the collective level. Much
relation to desired progression; what training risk is carried forward and how to design or modify specific training serials to suit their needs.
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Additionally, the chain of command can direct priority activities, understand training risk when compared with the desired mission-ready end state and enable the direction and design in an agile fashion of a faster or more challenging progression, or additional training based on solid evidence.
Large volumes of data can quickly become unmanageable, and it is easy
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to become blind to the truth behind the array of signals that a dataset offers. The ability to define and analyse this data is what produces value; so a single system for live and integrated data capture becomes a prerequisite of modern training and exercising.
The barriers in collective and individual training and exercising The need for effective, end-to-end digitalised training and exercising has been established and is widely understood. But what are the benefits we stand to gain? In brief, they are: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Improved scheduling effectiveness Improved exercise design and delivery Increased measurability and objectivity Improved progression management Optimised readiness development Significant resource saving
Refined lessons learned and expanded evaluation scope
■ Opportunity to securely implement AI
These benefits rely on solutions that integrate and co-exist with each other. In a similar comparison with tools that bring order to data capture and evaluation, it is critical to provide structure to their implementation. Otherwise, there is the risk of being left with siloed, inefficient processes and excessive resource spent piecing together insight.
A single source of truth solution, one that sits at the centre of the digital landscape tying periphery tools together, is a necessity. Digitalisation on its own isn’t enough. Instead, it’s the experience and ability to tailor a standardised system to meet the desired doctrines and goals that empowers operations and enables training for the future. ●
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