Canadian Manoeuvre Training Centre

CMTC's mission is to deliver collective training within a realistic and immersive contemporary operating environment. CMTC also provides support to exercise design, delivery, and execution for the Canadian Army and its allies. CMTC executes its mission through a combination of force-on-force exercises, simulation training, courses, professional development, and exchanges with allies.

CMTC was established in 2004 and delivered its first exercise, Exercise Maple Guardian in 2006, but assisted in running the brigade training event (BTE) in 2005. In 2006, the primary focus of CMTC was to train task forces deploying to Afghanistan. Since the end of the Canadian combat mission in Afghanistan, CMTC continues to design and deliver collective training exercises to maintain the warfighting capabilities of the CA's brigades and battlegroups.

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CMTC manages exercise design, delivery, and execution through leveraging its sub-components

CMTC HQ is the unit responsible for exercise design and planning. The HQ conducts planning conferences, writing boards, and site reconnaissance with exercise participants in order to design exercises that will best fit their training aims. During in-house exercises, CMTC HQ leads the exercise control (EXCON). CMTC HQ is also responsible for maintaining connections with allied training centres and industry partners to incorporate best practices across a wide network.

CMTC Operations Group (Ops Grp) is the unit responsible for the execution of exercises. This is done through the employment of its sub-units, which provide a rich training environment, facilitate learning, and inform EXCON. Ops Grp consists of:

Observer controller trainers (OCT) are experienced officers, warrant officers and non-commissioned members who coach and mentor the training audience, by leveraging their experience, knowledge of doctrine, and interpretation of discrete and aggregate data. CMTC's OCTs support all CMTC-led exercises, and often support other excises for the Canadian Army and allies. They also provide courses for Canadians and allies on how to be an OCT, and how to conduct an after-action review.

Contemporary Operating Environment Force (COEFOR) provides unconventional, para-military, and host-nation forces and key personalities to role-play in exercises. They cover any gaps the spectrum of personalities in the battlespace, between the opposing force (OPFOR), training audience, and the population base. The employment of COEFOR causes soldiers to consider every person in the battlespace, and forces them to remain aware throughout the entire exercise. CMTC's COEFOR also supports allied exercises around the world.

CMTC has an integral administration and network support capability that provides admin services to its own members and the exercises it leads.

Formation Training Group (Fmn Trg Grp) provides training to the Canadian Army at the formation level. This includes the design and delivery of Exercise United Resolve and the provision of the Canadian Army Exercise Planning and Execution Course (CAEPAC) and the Civilian - Military Interagency Planning Seminar (CMIPS).

Army Collective Training (Army CT) is responsible for upholding CMTC's duties as the FCoE for CT doctrine. CMTC's exercises are designed around the achievement of battle task standards (BTS), which are derived from operational needs and implemented in doctrine. Army CT ensures that doctrine is updated as the operational environment shifts, to ensure exercises are relevant to the needs of training audiences.

Exercise Maple Resolve (Ex MR) is the Canadian Army's cornerstone exercise for proving brigades, battlegroups, and their soldiers in the contemporary operating environment. During the exercise, soldiers test their ability to integrate with allies and other government departments as they hone their warfighting skills within a realistic, complex and demanding environment.

Exercise Unified Resolve (Ex UR) is the Canadian Army's largest and most complex computer-assisted training exercise. The training plays a key role in confirming the operational readiness of mechanized brigade group command and control elements and tests their ability to plan and conduct missions. During the simulation, participants react to computer-assisted scenarios within the contemporary operating environment across the full spectrum of conflict.

CMTC conducts the Integrated Capstone Exercise (ICE) as part of the CAF's contribution as the framework nation for the Enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup (eFP BG) Latvia. ICE confirms that the eFP meets the supreme allied commander Europe's (SACEUR) requirements, and that the eight sending nations and framework nation are effectively integrated into one multinational battlegroup. CMTC typically deploys on two ICE rotations a year, spring and fall.

CMTC conducts the certification and validation of a light infantry battle group in the planning and command and control of high-intensity tactical operations facing a hybrid threat consisting of a near-peer conventional force and irregular units in a joint, interagency, multi-national, and public (JIMP) contemporary operating environment. The field training exercise is in Fort Johnson, Louisiana, United States.