NATO crisis centre to use MASA SWORD
The NATO Crisis Management and Disaster Response Center of Excellence (CMDR COE) in Sofia, Bulgaria, will use the MASA SWORD wargame to train personnel for emergency and inter-agency operations, MASA announced on 13 January.
Participants will be trained in emergency preparedness, collaboration in operations and civil-military cooperation using the system, as well as for contingency planning for crises and disaster scenarios.
SWORD is a wargame designed for training, planning, and decision support. It uses advanced artificial intelligence to enable realistic simulations of military and civil units reacting to a wide variety of scenarios, with automated actions following doctrine and procedures previously validated by subject matter experts.
The capability allows for large-scale exercises to be conducted realistically while minimising costs and animation effort.
Juan-Pablo Torres, president and CEO, MASA, said: ‘As MASA continues to develop SWORD for its customers around the world, emergency planning has proved to be a vital functionality. We have been continually improving SWORD for many years so that our customers can use it for both training and planning purposes.
‘MASA is honoured that the NATO CMDR COE has chosen SWORD as its constructive simulation and we are proud to support NATO's crisis management and disaster response operations. We are truly excited about this first acquisition of SWORD by a NATO entity and we look forward to other potential deployments across NATO in the future.’
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