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- [Narrator] At Fort Bliss, Texas, soldiers from

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the Second Brigade Combat Team, First Armored Division,

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and Capability Package Directorate

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are executing the Validation Exercise, or VALEX.

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This ensures capabilities are operational

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and ready to be assessed

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for the first-ever Army Warfighting Assessment,

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which derived from the Network Integration Evaluation.

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- AWA stands for the Army Warfighting Assessment.

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Now, the difference between a AWA and a NIE

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is that a NIE really focuses on test events

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driven by the respective stakeholders, the PELs and the PMs.

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AWA is really a TRADOC-led event, you know,

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which the focus is really on early concepts,

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prototypes, and assessments of those capabilities.

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- [Narrator] During VALEX, soldiers,

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with the support of civilian experts on the systems,

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come together in a controlled motor-pool environment.

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Soldiers use their new equipment training skills

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and apply them onto the capabilities

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before they go out into the field for execution.

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- So there are four phases for the Validation Exercise,

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also known as a VALEX. The phases are

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load, establish, integrate, and validate phase.

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The validate phase is where we take

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validation technical threads,

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and we test out each of the System of Systems

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to ensure quality and communication.

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- [Narrator] This is the first time the VALEX concept

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has been employed for an Army Warfighting Assessment,

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meaning things are a bit different this time around

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versus as VALEX being employed

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for a Network Integration Evaluation.

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- The scope of a AWA VALEX is far greater

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than we would find with a NIE.

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For NIE, it's really

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Fort Bliss Division Brigade Internal.

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What you find for the AWA, it's because we have

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the International Coalition Partners,

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is that we have several locations

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in which we conduct VALEX efforts and activities.

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- [Narrator] The benefits of VALEX are clear,

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and the outcome is just the beginning of AWA 17.1 execution.

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This is Vanessa Flores,

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System of Systems Engineering and Integration.