Positive Force
The Chairman sponsors various training events, such as POSITIVE RESPONSE. War games and short-duration CPXs may be used to train senior decision makers and their staffs on key action procedures. These more narrowly focused training events address topics that do not require lengthy exercise play to accomplish the training objectives.
CJCS conducted exercise POSITIVE RESPONSE Year 2000 (PRY2K), a series of four command post exercises scheduled from February to September 1999. This was the first national level exercise conducted under conditions of multiple Y2K mission critical system failures. PRY2K assessed the ability of DoD to respond with timely decisions in a Y2K degraded environment and focuses on the strategic national tasks of mobilization, deployment, employment, intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance (ISR), and sustainment.
This series of exercises was designed to achieve senior participation in and awareness of the operational impact of Y2K mission critical systems failure during the mobilization, deployment, employment, and sustainment processes. The concept is to remove mission critical systems and capabilities from play during the conduct of a robust warfighting scenario and then assess DoD ability to respond with timely decisions. In addition, the exercises assess the ability of the Services to execute operational contingency plans and to mitigate problems associated with Y2K. Finally, senior members of the warfighting community will share lessons learned and other vital information via secure videoteleconference (SVTC). The Secretary of Defense, CJCS, Service Chiefs, and CINCs participated in the SVTC following the exercise with a goal of recommending a strategy to the National Command Authorities to mitigate the impact of mission critical systems failure.
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