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By Cryptologic Technician (Collection) 1st Class Ryan J. Marriott, Center for Information Warfare Training Det. Goodfellow
SAN ANGELO, Texas – The Center for Information Warfare Training (CIWT) Det. Goodfellow completed the final pilot run of a modernized capstone simulation for its cryptologic technician (collection) (CTR) students attending the Navy Analysis and Reporting Course (NARC) onboard Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas, Aug. 23.
The capstone simulation program, known onboard Goodfellow as “Loneshark”, offers the first real-world training environment for the NARC, which closely resembles a team-trainer style environment. It capitalizes on a true joint-training opportunity as it focuses on fusing members of all branches of the military into a single, cohesive unit and forces them to work together as a team to find solutions to complex problems.
Students must utilize knowledge gained throughout their time in the NARC to properly analyze and report on a developing situation. Over the last nine months, Navy instructors have refined and modernized the program, and now have a scenario that helps the students focus on the maritime picture in a large theater of operations.
“The capstone scenario event provides the apprentice-level Sailors a chance to experience operating within in watch floor as close to a realistic as possible, which provides a safe training environment for failure,” said Chief Cryptologic Technician (Collection) Aaron Buchs, a recent NARC graduate. “For senior Sailors, it also provides a refresher and a valuable mentorship opportunity in the operational lab.”
The simulation is facilitated by the NARC’s expert instructors, who not only quality check the students’ analysis and reports, but also add a little situational pressure to the training environment. Like a real watch floor, there are area supervisor positions, reporting positions, and tracking positions–each responsible for a specific task all overseen by a team supervisor.
The facilitators switch out these positions not only at the start of each day, but throughout the course of the simulation with little or at no notice so that each student is confident and understands the responsibilities of each position.
Leadership teams from both the Navy and the Air Force drop in unexpectedly to get situational briefings from supervisors, simulating the unexpected top leadership visits to watch floors that happen around the world.
“As a recent addition to “Loneshark”, the U.S. Navy’s NARC personnel have proven themselves to be professional, enthusiastic, adaptive, and imaginative joint partners in their approach to participation in the simulation environment,” said Harry LaClair III, chief, emerging technology, 316th Training Squadron. “Their instructor cadre brings years of experience and professional naval insight to the enterprise. Future operations will provide further challenging interaction across multi-domain environments, in a scalable, and increasingly complex, modular exercise.”
Moving forward, the CIWT Det. Goodfellow and the 316th Training Squadron instructors will modernize existing scenarios, as well as creating new ones, to keep the simulations as close to real world as possible.
CIWT Det. Goodfellow is one of two detachments assigned to CIWT. With four schoolhouse commands, two detachments, and training sites throughout the United States and Japan, CIWT is recognized as Naval Education and Training Command’s top learning center for the past three years. Training over 21,000 students every year, CIWT delivers trained information warfare professionals to the Navy and joint services. CIWT also offers more than 200 courses for cryptologic technicians, intelligence specialists, information systems technicians, electronics technicians, and officers in the information warfare community.
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| Date Taken: | 08.23.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 08.29.2019 08:52 |
| Story ID: | 337842 |
| Location: | SAN ANGELO, TEXAS, US |
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