EAG Supports NATO Tabletop Exercise Coherent Resilience 2019 in Vilnius, Lithuania
From 15–19 May 2019, the Energy Academic Group (EAG) supported the NATO Tabletop Exercise Coherent Resilience (CORE) 2019 in Vilnius, Lithuania in cooperation with the NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence (ENSEC COE) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. The main objective of the event was to test and evaluate the resiliency of gas supply in the Baltic Sea region.
The exercise was conducted at the ENSEC COE’s location aboard the premises of the Military Academy of Lithuania. 108 participants from 14 countries participated in the three-day event. The EAG supported the event from concept development through the execution of the exercise with a main role of supporting the evaluation process.
The focus of the scenario and exercise vignettes/injects was centered on potential regional hybrid threats. In addition to taking a comprehensive approach towards improving resilience of regional gas supply systems and infrastructure, the program was designed to further strengthen cooperation among regional countries to best avoid or mitigate potential gas supply reductions in the future.
The three-day event included an academic seminar, the tabletop exercise, and an after action/distinguished visitor day. The academic seminar included presentations on regional natural gas networks, EU regulations, public-private partnerships, and cyber security challenges. The preponderance of the three-day event was the tabletop exercise, where four syndicates responded to dynamic regional atmospherics and incidents related to impacts on gas supply that required analysis, coordination, and planned responses.
The EAG sent a multi-disciplinary team including faculty, students, and U.S. naval reserve officers to support CORE 2019. In addition to the EAG, NPS faculty from the School of Business and Public Policy, the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, and the Center for Cyber Warfare also supported the event. As well, two students from the NPS National Security Affairs program participated. For the third consecutive NATO CORE exercise, the Mission Capable, Persistent and Survivable Naval Platforms (Code 33) Department of the Office of Naval Research supported the event with several officers with unique specialties and backgrounds.
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Email Lawrence Walzer at lmwalzer1@nps.edu or call 831-656-3777.
