Overview

Exercise Support brings the same operating picture your team uses in a live incident into training. Design, run, and evaluate exercises with Cadence, Beat, and Pulse, built into the COBRA platform, so there's nothing extra to license or learn.

It covers the full exercise lifecycle, from a tabletop exercise (TTX) through to a full-scale exercise (FSE), and supports planners, controllers, evaluators, and the Sim Cell in the same system.

The workflow is consistent with HSEEP: objectives, the MSEL, controller and evaluator roles, and the after-action report follow the methodology your exercise program already documents.

Cadence

Plan the arc of an exercise ahead of time: objectives, timeline, and the sequence of events controllers will introduce, all in one place your evaluation team can follow along with as it runs.

Beat

Deliver exercise injects on schedule, whether scripted in advance or triggered live by controllers, so participants respond to a realistic, evolving scenario instead of a static script.

Pulse

Monitor how participants are responding as the exercise unfolds, so controllers and evaluators can see engagement and performance in real time rather than reconstructing it after the fact.

Core capabilities

Exercise Planning

Build out objectives, timelines, and inject sequences ahead of the exercise, with everything visible to your evaluation team. Master Scenario Event List (MSEL) management keeps the inject schedule and the exercise plan in one place, and CONOPS documents are shared from the same system.

After Action Review

Every action and inject is logged as it happens, so your after-action review is built from a real record instead of memory. Data collector logs and a real-time integrated exercise timeline mean the report is assembled from what was captured during play, not reconstructed afterwards.

Social Media

Simulate social media activity as part of the exercise, giving participants a realistic public information channel to monitor and respond to.

AI Enhanced Exercise Injects

Generate realistic, scenario-consistent injects faster, so exercise designers spend less time writing and more time evaluating.

Exercise tools

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