Indiana chapters witness bold quest live-virtual training exercise.

• Author: Crosby, John
• Position: NDIA News

More than 50 members and guests of the National Defense industrial Association toured the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Inch-ana in September to witness military operations and capabilities during the Bold Quest 13.2 exercise.

U.S. forces and those of 11 other coalition nations during the exercise assessed the integration of joint fires, maneuver and network operations in a live/virtual environment to enhance combat effectiveness, reduce fratricide and increase situational awareness.

"Bold Quest is a joint staff-sponsored capability demonstration ... geared to assess systems and test new processes before actual operational deployment," said Chuck Ratte, a representative of the joint staff. "NDIA gets a look at how its manufacturing contracts for hardware and software development are used in a real-world testing situation."

NDIA Central Indiana Chapter President Carl Boss said, "The opportunity here ... is for industry partners to understand what happens to the items we manufacture, whether it's cyber or hardware, and see how it is...