NATO Operational Planning · War-Gaming · Exercise Control
PARMENION
VERSION 2.1.0
Plan · Simulate · Exercise · Assess
One platform that runs the entire exercise lifecycle — from building the scenario world and order of battle, through multi-domain simulation and the NATO planning process, to live exercise control and the final after-action report. Six domains, three command levels, one common operating picture.
PARMENION carries an exercise through every stage without leaving the platform or re-keying data — each stage feeds the next.
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Set the scene
Scenario, sides, ORBAT, terrain and equipment — build the exercise world.
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Plan
Operational and tactical estimates, CONOPS, OPLAN and campaign design.
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Simulate
Air, land, sea, space, cyber and social engines with a 2D/3D COP.
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Execute
Live EXCON: inject events, adjudicate, pause and rewind.
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Assess
Objectives, observations and the final exercise report.
Full capability catalogue
Everything PARMENION does
The platform is organised into nine functional areas. Every tool below is live in the system — sign in to open the ones your role and permissions allow.
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Scenario Setting
Build the exercise world: scenarios, sides, order of battle, terrain and equipment.
6 tools
Scenario Runs
Runs under a setting — each with its own Road to Crisis, objectives and MEL/MIL.
ORBAT Ingest
Build an order of battle from any file (Excel / PDF / Word / text) straight into the simulation database.
Scenario & Force Builder
Lay down forces on a map; feeds MASOF, LandOps, NavOps and the kernel.
Database Builder
Equipment catalogues, what each formation holds, bridging and gaps.
Units, Weapons & Sensors
Unit records and strengths, weapon and sensor catalogues.
IADS, Facilities & Ammunition
Integrated air-defence layouts, bases and ports, ammunition stocks.
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Simulation
Model the fight: build the picture, run the domain engines, then analyse the results.
10 tools
Common Operational Picture
Shared 2D situational awareness across all participants.
3D COP
Three-dimensional operating picture with kernel playback.
MASOF — Air Strike Optimiser
Air mission planning and Nash course-of-action generation.
NAVOPS — Naval Optimiser
Naval missions, ASW and task-group planning.
LANDOPS — Ground Optimiser
Ground operations at all three levels, including engineering ops.
Space · Cyber · Social Ops
Course-of-action, mission and execution flows in the newer domains.
KIMON — Theatre Simulation
Theatre-level formations, sustainment and detection.
Andrian Micro Agent
Autonomous multi-domain agent simulation.
Monte-Carlo Experimentation
Run engines N times: mean, confidence intervals, P(success).
The whole exercise cycle in one place: design it, run it, report on it.
8 tools
Exercise Management
Exercise programme, documents and scheduling.
MEL/MIL Builder
Author the master event and incident lists (manual or AI-assisted).
Air Tasking Order
Task missions and sequence them against dependencies.
Exercise Control
Three-room exercises: appoint commanders, run the chain of command.
EXCON Control Room
Live exercise control and event injection.
Simulation Director & Cells
Cell management, unit orders and battle resolution.
Objective Management (OMM)
Objectives ↔ functional areas ↔ MEL/MIL events ↔ audience performance.
After-Action & Final Report
Observations, lessons, scoring and the final exercise report.
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Wargaming
Three nested levels: a strategic frame, the operational games under it, and tactical exercises within those.
6 tools
War-Game Studio
Run a war-game end to end: level, type, objectives, strategies, payoff table and optimum courses of action.
AI Adjudicator
AI-assisted turn adjudication.
Combat & Operations Simulation
Lanchester attrition and operational-level runs.
Adversarial / AI Simulation
Autonomous Red/Blue and AI-opponent behaviour modelling.
Assessments
Route, radar and fire-system analysis.
Decision Ledger
Tamper-evident record of wargame decisions.
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Operations Planning
The NATO planning process: estimates, CONOPS, OPLAN and campaign design.
4 tools
Operational Planning Process
The operational planning process, worked step by step.
Tactical Planning
Tactical planning, worked step by step.
Operation Plans (OPLAN)
Full OPLAN with annexes, including AI section drafting.
Campaign Planning
Lines of operation and campaign phases.
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Tactical Training
Junior-officer and cadet training: battle drills, assessment and gradebooks.
4 tools
Instructor Console
Author drills and verify them against doctrine.
Cohorts & Gradebooks
Training cohorts, enrolments and results.
Tactical Exercise
Map-based tactical decision game with force-on-force resolution.
Course Library
Planning and doctrine courses, plus module manuals.
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AI Tools
AI-assisted generation across MEL/MIL, plans, documents and analysis.
4 tools
AI MEL/MIL Generator
Generate exercise events from scenario context, then compare against manual events.
OPLAN & Document Drafting
Draft plan sections and exercise documents.
Digital Twins
AI behavioural models of actors and forces.
Knowledge Base
Doctrine corpus for AI retrieval.
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Models Federation
Connect external simulators over DIS — resolve exercises with VBS, Steel Beasts or any DIS-capable model.
3 tools
JTLS-GO Federation
Export a scenario as MSDL / SISO-OBS enriched for JTLS-GO, with a live DIS link.
Federation Status
Protocol state, connected exercises and live links.
Shared Tactical Picture
Federated entities appear on the common operating picture.
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Documentation
Manuals for every module, generated reports, the document store and PDF exports.
4 tools
Manuals
How each module works, what it produces and what it does not.
Reports & COA Exports
Generated reports plus Air/Naval/Ground COA and exercise PDFs.
Document Store & Snapshots
Uploaded exercise documents and point-in-time side snapshots.
Caveats & Capability Register
Every limitation, and what is built vs in progress.
What you can do with it
Built around the people who run exercises
Whatever your seat in the exercise, PARMENION gives you the tools for your part of it — and the same data underneath, so nobody re-keys anything.
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Exercise Planner
Design
Build the scenario world and ORBAT, author the MEL/MIL by hand or with AI, schedule the programme, and generate the final exercise report.
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Commander & Staff
Plan
Work the operational planning process end to end — operational and tactical estimates, OPLANs with annexes, and campaign design along lines of operation.
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Exercise Controller
EXCON
Drive a live exercise from the control room: inject events, adjudicate outcomes, manage Blue/Red/Grey cells, and pause or rewind the clock.
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Analyst / ORSA
Assess
Quantify outcomes with Monte-Carlo experimentation, defence-planning optimisation, SEAD package comparison and battle-damage assessment.
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Instructor
Teach
Author battle drills verified against doctrine, run training cohorts, and grade cadets against a consistent standard.
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Cadet / Trainee
Learn
Learn by doing — map-based tactical decision games with force-on-force resolution, your own attempts and results, and a full course library.
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Coalition Partner
Federate
Plug external simulators — VBS, Steel Beasts, JTLS-GO — over DIS, and see federated entities on one shared operating picture.
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Commander (COP)
See
Keep shared situational awareness in 2D and 3D across every domain, with standards-based military symbology consistent on every screen.