The Canadian Joint Warfare Centre Coordinates Canadian Armed Forces Participation in Bold Quest 2023
November 14, 2023 - Defence Stories
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Canadian Medical Technicians participated in the first phase of the annual international Coalition Capability Demonstration and Assessment series known as BOLD QUEST which ran from Camp Pendleton, California from 21 August to 22 September, 2023. The Medical Technicians utilized the Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distributed Observation Kit (BATDOK) system, while members of the U.S. Marines CBRN Defence Platoon decontaminated the exercise patients.
The annual Bold Quest Coalition Capability Demonstration and Assessment series, which is sponsored by the U.S. Joint Staff (JS) is a multinational collaborative joint enterprise in which Nations, Services and Programs pool their resources in a recurring cycle of capability development, demonstrations and analysis. Bold Quest includes participants from the U.S. services, NATO Headquarters, and twenty-three Partner Nations. The demonstration allowed participants to improve interoperability, information sharing across a range of coalition warfighting capabilities, and advance interoperability in the kinetic fires kill chain at all levels. This year’s Bold Quest included the following topics:
- Digitally Aided Close Air Support (CAS) and CAS Command and Control (C2)
- Joint Fire Support Joint Mission Thread
- Shared Situational Awareness
- Ground Situational Awareness
- Combined Joint All Domain C2 Environment Development
- Live/Virtual scenarios
- Mark XII Mode 5 Identification Friend or Foe
- Federated Mission Network (FMN)/Mission Partner Environment (MPE)
- FMN/MPE Cyber Defence
- Coalition Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance
- Global Information Dominance Experiment Integration: Chief Data Artificial Intelligence Officer - led series of experiments to optimize strategic to tactical edge information collaboration.
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A CP-140 Aurora detachment, based in the United Kingdom participated in the second phase of the annual international Coalition Capability Demonstration and Assessment series known as BOLD QUEST which ran from Denmark from 5-20 October, 2023. BOLD QUEST allows participants to exchange information and conduct surveillance and data collection in an operational context to test capabilities and develop tactics and procedures.
The central points of each Bold Quest cycle are the operational demonstrations. These demonstrations involve warfighters, capability developers, and test agencies meeting for two or three weeks of data collection in an operational context and performing scenarios and vignettes representative of coalition warfare. Participating live forces are augmented by constructive and virtual simulation as required.
This year, Bold Quest 23 Island Marauder took place at Camp Pendleton, California, from 21 August to 22 September 23. Denmark hosted a second phase of the event, running from 5-20 October.
The Canadian Joint Warfare Centre was the lead organization on behalf of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) in coordinating Canada’s participation in this year’s training.
CAF participation in this years Bold Quest included the following organizations:
- Canadian Army: Conducted Joint Fires and Friendly Force tracking.
- RCAF 8 Air Communications and Control Squadron: Deployed in the field as a Regional Interface Control Centre at Camp Pendleton. Also, the RCAF with a CP-140 Long range patrol aircraft participated in Denmark and flew missions against Polish F-16s and United Kingdom Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft.
- Canadian Special Operations Forces Command: Joint Tactical Air Controller, High Frequency transmission (communicate in a denied environment, in the field).
- Canadian Forces Health Services: Observation and participation in the field with a U.S. Medical Battlefield assisted trauma distributed observation kit.
A total of 175 CAF personnel participated in Bold Quest. Once again, participation in this U.S. JS-led capability demonstration provided the CAF with invaluable experience and knowledge which will be incorporated into future training and exercises.
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