
“What I’m looking for is a simulation where a battalion or squadron commander or a regimental or a group commander or a division, wing or MEF or a corps commander can go in and not have to put thousands of people on the battlespace and in the air and actually get them to do a repetition,” Neller said in 2017.Īs plans proceeded and funding was sourced, the Marines sought tools for the building, asking industry for pitches on an IBM Watson-like machine or software in late 2018 that would help conduct complex wargaming that the center plans to execute. Robert Neller in 2017, the top general painted a vivid picture of what the center could provide. When the center was first announced by former Commandant Gen. “(The center) will really inform us on how we train on a large-scale exercise,” Pasagian said.

Pasagian, head of Marine Corps Systems Command, told Marine Corps Times at the event that the same is true of equipment.
