US Air Force,
HAMPTON, Va: Efforts to advance experimentation war gaming within the Air Force and the Defense Department resulted in a team from the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate receiving the Air Force Modeling and Simulation Experimentation Award for 2006.
The team, which consists of team leader Rudy M. Martinez along with 1st Lts. Joseph Friel and Brian Spanbauer, Beth Nayder and Linda Lamberson, received the award May 8 during a DOD conference that recognizes modeling and simulation contributions to the warfighter.
The team was cited for specifically using high-energy lasers, high-power microwaves and other models of directed energy weapons in warfighting simulations and exercises. By uniting modeling and simulation developers with warfighters, the Air Force gained insight into the potential utility of directed energy weapon systems being considered for the future.
Among the computer-based exercises participated by the team were the Joint Forces Command Urban Resolve 2015 experimentation war game and the Advanced Concepts Event. For the Urban Resolve 2015 war game, Joint Forces Command gave special recognition to the Research Laboratory team for the five directed energy simulations the team provided.
For the Advanced Concepts Event exercise, the team provided the warfighter with opportunities to do “out-of-the-box” thinking; to refine operational concepts, and to change or modify tactics, techniques and procedures that are normally impractical to do during other war games, which are designed under carefully developed scenarios.
