As a part of our STEEL-Rx project with US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM), Jefferson Institute served on the Exercise Evaluation and Lessons Learned teams in the Vigorous Warrior 24/Clean Care 24 exercise. This biennial multinational field exercise organized by the NATO Military Medicine Centre of Excellence (MILMED COE) assembled 42 medical units and 1600 personnel from 35 nations for joint tactical and operational training at the Hungarian Defence Forces BAKONY Combat Training Centre from April 28 to May 9, 2024.

The STEEL-Rx project supports US Army DEVCOM with operational integration of the Synthetic Training Environment Experiential Learning for Readiness (STEEL-R) system into large-scale multinational exercises to help mature STEEL-R under realistic network and scenario conditions. Vigorous Warrior 24/Clean Care 24 was our first step on this path, and we delivered several key initial elements, including:

• eLearning materials for exercise pre-training
• Learning analytics of exercise participant data
• Field observation and assessment of the Combined Joint Exercise Lifecycle for a battlefield medical exercise

We anticipate the Vigorous Warrior 26 exercise in Estonia will provide an even better environment for data collection and analytics strategically aligning performance evidence across active experiential learning events with competency frameworks that track learning across an ecosystem of resources.