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Description
Large scale on-site inspection (OSI) exercises – especially with limited resources directly available on site – require robust support infrastructure well beyond the standard support requirements of an inspection team. Additional exercise participants and teams (such as personnel playing notional “inspected State Party” roles, exercise control team, external evaluation team, management team, as well as host country support personnel, contractors, visitors) require a wide range of support and infrastructure integrated into a coherent support system to function properly. At the same time, these “Non-IT” support elements must be independent and separated from the “in-game” inspection team support capabilities to allow free play for the exercise players and the testing and validation of IT support procedures, training and equipment as part of the exercise. The build-up exercise in 2024 (BUE24) was the first OSI exercise where a full-scale support infrastructure, including “Non-It” teams was set up as opposed to ad-hoc use of components in previous exercises. This poster aims to visualize the methods this support infrastructure was deployed, maintained and re-deployed during BUE24, along with key challenges and some overlaps identified. These lessons identified are used to further improve the exercise support concept and the exercise support infrastructure, with results to be fully implemented during IFE.
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