This paper will present and cover what and why of a development possibly building a global reach and a cost-effective training capability for Forces transformation into Global Crises Response using a Persistent Partner Simulation Network.

The purpose of the new Persistent Partner Simulation Network (P2SN) would be to provide capabilities to P2SN partners in support of education and training. P2SN will also establish capability standards "In the spirit of U.S. Joint National Training Capability". Both these new concepts are based on the 1999 established Partnership for Peace (PfP) Simulation Network with all Lessons Identified and Learned in a number of related multinational events.

Using a building block approach, the end state of the developed P2SN Training and Simulation establishments in NATO/PfP will be represented in an event driven P2SN Capability including an established set of operational requirements and an established set of system specifications.

The existing PfP simulation network is a set of protocols, standards, and processes needed to create the infrastructure and technical elements required to support a distributed simulation exercise. The protocols and standards enable Partner nations to create the hardware and software suites needed to participate in or lead exercise events while the processes enable those Partners to quickly establish the required organization and communications network. The PfP simulation network continues to identify the nodes within Partner and NATO nations that have the requisite systems that enable their participation in a distributed simulation exercise. This information is then used as a fundamental building block of an exercise.

The primarily P2SN possible benefits identified are:

• Contributes to partners supporting real world coalitions.

• P2SN expose partners to the Joint National Training Capabilities and to the NATO Education Training Network standards.

• Improves the interoperability in the Education and Training arena needed to have a positive impact on forming coalitions for real world operations.

• Partnership sharing is within the framework of NATO/PfP.

• Building national capability.

• Enhancing military and interagency relationships.

A P2SN network architecture, as it develops, with identified "self supporting" Training & Simulation centres, can possibly be the centrepiece of the multinational arm of the Joint National Training Capability (JNTC) concept.