USJFCOM to Use Facilitate.com Brainstorming Software at Pinnacle Impact 03 Discovery Experiment

Collaborative software will support anonymous brainstorming to test future joint military concepts

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- 05/6/2003 -- Facilitate.com, provider of collaborative meeting software for problem solving and decision making, today announced that the United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) has adopted Facilitate.com 7.5 to support its joint concept experimentation labs, including the large Pinnacle Impact 2003 experiment to be held May 12-21 in Suffolk VA.

Concept teams will use the software to engage in parallel brainstorming of ideas around critical hypotheses and joint military operations concepts. Brainstorming will be anonymous to encourage an open exchange and debate with input from specialists from all branches of the military as well as international experts. The teams will use Facilitate.com's prioritizing and voting tools to evaluate the ideas immediately against defined criteria. Facilitate.com 7.5 will provide the single repository for all the event content and enable on-demand reporting and analysis.

As part of USJFCOM's joint experimentation campaign, Pinnacle Impact 03 is one of several command-hosted discovery experiments that examine key aspects of the evolving future joint military operations concept with the objective of eliminating interoperability problems. Using a seminar war game format and a detailed future scenario, PI03 will include some 110 players and 50 support personnel.

“Facilitate.com’s biggest contribution will be to give a voice to participants who would be observing only in a traditional setting,” said Julia Young, Vice President at Facilitate.com. “Collaborative brainstorming will enable all 160 participants to share ideas simultaneously, challenge each others’ thinking and ultimately build better solutions.”

About USJFCOM and Pinnacle Impact 03

As the transformation laboratory for the Department of Defense, USJFCOM turns to the Joint Experimentation Directorate (J9) to develop, explore, test, and validate 21st-century war fighting concepts that will be integrated into future joint forces training. J9 uses discovery experiments to produce and use new ideas that identify potential military benefits and to lay the foundation for more rigorous testing, assessment and refinement. For more information on Pinnacle Impact 03, visit www.jfcom.mil/about/experiments/pi03.

About Facilitate.com

Since 1992 Facilitate.com has specialized in facilitation and collaboration software tools and techniques that dramatically enhance meeting productivity. Facilitate 7.5 helps generate, capture and formalize ideas with tools for capturing, categorizing, voting, surveying and building instant documentation.