![]() The advent of a new national wargaming centre doesn’t necessarily come as a surprise. The facility can be configured to “deliver a wide variety of wargames of different types and sizes for a range of purposes,” said Dstl. While no images have been released of the DWC, it reportedly covers roughly 600 square metres and features two large areas alongside a smaller open-plan area, which can be split into smaller cells if necessary. “We will need to embrace a combination of information technologies such as cloud computing, edge processing, machine learning and automation, so this wargame was a good step towards understanding the pros and cons of different approaches.” “Staying one step ahead of an information savvy adversary is a constant challenge,” said Platt. Reflecting on the inaugural Eagle Warrior 19 exercise, Group Captain Christopher Platt, Dstl’s senior air advisor, described it as “a genuinely ambitious experiment that challenged participants to think about command and control of the next generation Royal Air Force”. Situated at Dstl’s Portsdown West campus, the facility is the UK’s first dedicated wargaming centre, set up to serve the RAF, the Royal Navy and the British Army. In doing so, the RAF became the first customer to make use of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory’s (Dstl) new Defence Wargaming Centre (DWC), which was officially launched the following month. Split into teams, they tried out a series of wargames – based on a combination of digital modelling, maps and manual table-top games – as a means of assessing their decision-making acumen. ![]() ![]() In December 2019, more than 40 Royal Air Force (RAF) officers took part in Eagle Warrior 19, a command and control wargaming exercise.
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