1. JTLS in Turkey 1

2. Outline Atatürk Wargaming and Convention Center MJWC Mission
Developed Projects
Past Events
Present Activities
Future Planning

3. Atatürk Wargaming and Convention Center
(AWCC)
25 July 2003 3

4. Atatürk Wargaming and Convention Center
(AWCC)
Basement Floor
Ground Floor
1st Wargaming Floor
Exercise Control Floor
2nd Wargaming Floor
Comprised of 6 floors and 3 main blocks.
- Wargaming block,
- Cultural block,
- Top level meeting block. 4

5. Wargaming Block On each wargaming floor :
4 wargaming halls with different capacities (total capacity for 12 wargaming halls is 1500 people),
Modular furniture, More than 800 fiber optic network outlets, 5

6. Multinational Joint Warfare
Centre (MJWC)
Inaugurated in March 2015
Host both national and international command post and computer assisted exercises as well as cultural and academic activities.
Lead combat model development efforts in Turkish Armed Forces.
Support training and education activities in War Colleges Command.

7. MJWC Mission
Aims to act as an Exercise Control Centre (EXCON) for national, multinational and NATO exercises,
* Providing education support,
* Developing scenarios and MEL/MIL scripts,
* Providing media simulation support,
* Develop joint doctrines,
* Conduct concept/doctrine experimentations and
* Contribute to the NATO concept experimentation process.

8. Developed Projects
TATYONSIS (Exercise Management System)

9. Developed Projects
ANTES (Engagement and Detection Query Program)

10. Hosted Nat. & Intl. Exercises/Events (2015-2016)
Past Events
Hosted Nat. & Intl. Exercises/Events ( )
YILDIZ Wargame (Annual-JTLS)
ZAFER CPX (Corps Level, every 2 years - JTLS)
Army College CPX (Annual-JCATS)
NATO ACT Transformation Conference (Sep.2015)
NATO Federated Mission Network (FMN) Seminar (Nov.2015)
NATO Terrorizm Specialists Conference (Oct.2015)
NATO Eurasian Star CPX (Jun.2016)

11. Past Events Attendance/Observer Allied Joint Operation (AJOD) WG
Cooperative Resolve 2015
Trident Juncture 2015
NATO Cyber Coalition 2015
Eurasian Star 2016
CAX Forum 2016
Trident Jaguar 2016
Coalition 2016
CJEX 2016
Trident Jaguar 2017 (core planning)

12. Present Activities
MJWC is currently on the phase of changing command authority from Turkish War Colleges Command to Turkish General Staff Operations Department to become a sole EXCON role for combined/joint exercises of Turkey
Keep working on JTLS-CCIS (Command Control And Information Systems) integration,
Keep on improving TATYONSIS and ANTES according to exercise feedbacks,
Still trying to finalize JTLS (5 yrs) contract issues
Upgrade to JTLS version 5.x (?)

13. Future Planning NATO IOC decleration (2017), FOC (2018)
Host National CPXs
YILDIZ Wargame
EFES Intl. Exercise EXCON
VATAN Nat. (Army,Navy,AirForce) CPX Exercise EXCON
Host International CPXs
Eurasian Star 2017
Trident Javelin 2017 (?)
Steadfast Pinnacle 2017 (?)
Steadfast Pyramid 2017 (?)

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15. Proposals
JTLS Order of Battle Editor (JOBE), JOBE Interface Navigator (JINN)
During the Database Preparation, we separate the existinc database into several parts via JINN. Role players prepare their partial database by using JOBE. They copy units, change unit locations etc.
When we are merging the JOBE XMLs to JTLS database via JINN, we get a lot of failure messages (due tolabel length constraints, unit copy failures etc.). This situation causes us to spent so much time resolving each failure, or creating the whole changes from beginning in DDS.
If there can be catched an error in JOBE, JOBE itself should warn the user about the error instead of giving error during the merging database by JINN. So that JOBE user can see the error early and correct it at the data preparation step. 15

16. Proposals
* JTLS users can easily access online player manual (OPM) pages for other Force Sides by opening an OPM and navigating to an enemy side. A password system is required for security.
* Cyber-War can not be modeled in JTLS. Sometimes we need to play cyber-attack to communication systems or missile-guiding systems. 16