Tabletop Exercise Support

Through growing partnerships, the EAG conducts and supports tabletop exercises and wargames with allies and partner nations on energy security, critical infrastructure protection, cyber security, information operations, resilience, hybrid threats, and others.

Coherent Resilience (CORE) 2017:

• Focused on Hybrid threats from near peer to Ukrainian critical energy infrastructure (Electricity)
• First national-level table-top exercise; conducted in Kiev, Ukraine
• Partnered with NATO Energy Security Center of Excellence, Ukraine’s National Institute for Strategy Studies, and Ukrenergo

CORE 2018:

• Focused on Hybrid threats from near peer to critical energy infrastructure (military fuel supply)
• Baltic Region scenario; conducted in Vilnius, Lithuania
• Partnered with NATO Energy Security Center of Excellence

CORE 2019:

• Focused on Hybrid threats from near peer to critical energy infrastructure (gas supply)
• Baltic Region scenario; conducted in Vilnius, Lithuania
• Partnered with NATO Energy Security Center of Excellence

CORE 2021: 

• Focused on hybrid threats and energy security in the Black Sea
• Conducted in Odessa, Ukraine
• Partnered with NATO Energy Security Center of Excellence, Ukraine’s National Institute for Strategic Studies, Ukrenegro

CORE 2021: 

• Focused on focused on the resiliency of the Baltic States consumers’ electricity supply against hybrid attacks
• Baltic Region scenario; conducted in Vilnius, Lithuania
• Partnered with NATO Energy Security Center of Excellence 

CORE 2022: 

• Focused on energy systems resilience
• Conducted in Tbilisi, Georgia
• Partnered with NATO Energy Security Center of Excellence and Georgia’s Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development

CORE-CEPS 2022: 

• Focused on resilience of the Central European Pipeline Systems against cyber attacks 
• Conducted in Versailles, France
• Partnered with NATO Energy Security Center of Excellence 

Energy Resilience and Readiness Tabletop Exercise 2023:

• Focused on response and recovery during a 72-hour base-wide outage 
• Conducted in Rota, Spain
• Partnered with US Naval Station Rota

COHERENT RESILIENCE 2023 – BALTIC (CORE 23-B)

• Focused on the energy system of the Baltic States with a focus on maritime critical energy infrastructure protection against hybrid threats
• Conducted 13-17 November 2023 in Riga, Latvia, in close partnership with the NATO Energy Security Center of Excellence, European Commission Joint Research Centre, and NPS/Energy Academic Group 
• Hosted over 120 participants from 12 NATO and European Union countries and partner nations, representing 45 different organizations, as well as maritime, energy supply, and security stakeholders

COHERENT RESILIENCE 2024 – MOLDOVA (CORE 24-M)

• Focused on deepening collaboration between Moldovan energy operators and cyber defenders, ensuring the country is prepared to deal with non-conventional security threats
• Conducted 12–14 March 2024 in Chisinau, Moldova, in close collaboration with the NATO Energy Security Center of Excellence, NATO Crisis Management and Disaster Response Centre of Excellence, Lithuanian Armed Forces, European Union Joint Research Centre, Romanian New Strategy Center, and NPS/Energy Academic Group 
• Featured participation from over 100 individuals, 10 nations, and 32 institutions 

BATANES PROVINCE ENERGY RESILIENCE TABLETOP EXERCISE (2024)

• First exercise to focus on the resilience and redundancy of critical energy infrastructure in Batanes Province, Philippines
• Fictional scenario that focused on the impacts to energy and energy-related systems from natural and man-made disasters
• Included civilians and military participants from the US and the Philippines, representing organizations from the strategic to the tactical level.

COHERENT RESILIENCE 2025 – Arctic (CORE 25A)

• Focused on hybrid threats to critical energy infrastructure in the Arctic region
• Participants included representative from over 100 organizations
• Partnered with the NATO Energy Security Center of Excellence, the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies, and the Swedish Defense University
   

Operational Energy Management Exercise 

The EAG conducts an annual OE exercise as part of the Energy Efficiency in Military Operations Course (EEMOC) course in Vilnius, Lithuania.  

Scenario: In this exercise, students assume the role of an Operational Energy Officer responsible for optimizing the deployment of energy assets at three battalion-sized camps and one brigade-sized camp. Students are given a limited budget to purchase energy generation assets to include hybrid and renewables and configure the best generation assets to pair with each facility on the base to improve fuel efficiency and reduce generator fuel demand. 

Exercise Objectives:

• Students learn how to select the best electrical generation assets to pair with different facility loads to optimize efficiency of conventional diesel generators.  
• Students are introduced to new and emerging energy technologies and learn to deploy these assets in tandem with conventional generators to reduce fuel demand at forward operating bases.

Wargaming Support

The EAG collaborates with NPS’s Wargaming Center and offers tailored courses to educate a specialized cadre on wargaming fundamentals in the areas of energy security, critical infrastructure protection, hybrid threats, and resilience.