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Revolutionising exercises for the modern military
In today’s complex and rapidly changing world, militaries need to be prepared for any challenge. Paul Steel, vice president of EMEA Defence at 4C Strategies, talks us through the company’s Exonaut platform, a cutting-edge training exercise management system.
xonaut is an end-to-end fully integrated training exercise management system, providing users with the ability to plan, programme, design, manage, evaluate and validate their training. This comprehensive platform, which can be hosted securely in the cloud or on premises, allows for distributed planning and access from anywhere with an internet connection.
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“It is fully cloud hosted on both MODNet (the UK Ministry of Defence’s intranet) within the UK and at Nato Secret level, specifically to address the issue of distributed planning teams – it’s a huge benefit,” says Paul Steel. “Our customers can login, wherever they are, into a ‘single version of the truth’, to plan and design an exercise.
A one-stop shop
Exonaut includes multiple features that streamline the training management process. For example, it can automatically generate a main events list and key objectives based on the desired training scenario, significantly speeding up the planning process.
Once the exercise is designed and running, the user – with the Exonaut Observer app – can have live inputs and observations from observer/mentors on the ground, or from simulators or other instrumented training aides, inputting comments and observations and even photographs or videos, and grade performance against training objectives in real-time. This real-time feedback loop allows for dynamic adjustments to training exercises.
“If a unit is failing to achieve objectives on a certain type of a training event,” Steel notes, “what we can do then is add in new serials with the training objectives they’re failing to achieve, so that the user can retest them.”
Beyond the execution of training, Exonaut simplifies the often-tedious task of post-exercise reporting and analysis. “Exonaut enables you to produce an automated training activity report where it collates all of these observations and creates a single training report which takes minutes,” says Steel. “Previously, it would have taken a training organisation
days...to produce that training report.” This automated reporting
“You could access the database, and then, using our own AI that we’ve developed which is all offline, you can design a main events list and key objectives against the scenario you want to exercise.”
“You can access the database, and then, using our own AI that we’ve developed which is all offline, you can design a main events list and key objectives against the scenario you want to exercise,” says Steel. “Our AI can build that for you and you can then input it to finalise the design and build your exercise.”
feature saves time and allows for in-depth trend analysis and identification of areas where training needs improvement. “If the data is hosted on the user’s secure network, they can just login and start to analyse trends and understand ‘where is my organisation’s training readiness level at’ whether at battle group
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level, brigade level, divisional level, or even fleet,” says Steel.
Exonaut in action
Exonaut is being utilised by a variety of military organisations around the world, including NATO allies from the UK Ministry of Defence, the Canadian Joint Operations Command and the Swedish Armed Forces. NATO itself uses Exonaut to support its Electronic Military Training and Exercise Programme (eMTEP), providing a single point of truth for all NATO allies to input their training schedules.
The UK MoD hosts Exonaut on its intranet (MODNet) and uses it to support training exercises across the UK and globally, in one year alone scheduling, planning, managing and evaluating 64 major collective training exercises involving over 20,000 troops across nine countries.
Steel emphasises the comprehensive nature of Exonaut’s capabilities, stating that it allows users to “plan, design, deliver, assess and validate training all in one place…and that means you reduce the burden on training staff, you reduce waste, and you reduce the inefficiencies of version control by having a single, accessible, version of truth.” Exonaut is proven to be a powerful tool that helps militaries significantly improve the effectiveness of their training exercises. With its comprehensive suite of features and its ability to automate many tasks, Exonaut is a valuable asset for any military organisation striving to ensure its personnel are prepared for any challenge. ●
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