Overview

Installation Force Protection Exercise (IFPEX) Program is modeled after the Battle Command Training Program Warfighter exercises conducted by the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The focus is to increase the technical proficiency of garrison commanders, the Installation Operations Center staff and the installation mission element staff to respond effectively to crisis management events.

IFPEX consists of three elements-- two related on-site training events and one stand-alone online training system.

• A 2-day training seminar is presented at each of 68 active Army sites once every 2 years. These seminars are presented to the garrison commander, garrison staff, and representatives from supporting organizations both on and off the installation. The focus is on subjects and skills identified by the local installation leadership as needing improvement.
• A 2-day command post exercise (CPX) is held 90 days following the training seminar. CPX is designed to provide the garrison commander and staff an opportunity to demonstrate what was learned during the seminar and other capabilities sharpened during the intervening 3 months since the seminar. In a simulated but stressful environment, the CPX focuses on force protection practices, antiterrorism measures and crisis or consequence management procedures.
• A web-based exportable force protection training package designed to satisfy the training needs of locations considered too small to justify the expense of on-site seminars and CPXs. This training package consist of functions lessons and scenarios or vignettes that commanders can use to teach and test their staff in ways that mimic the seminars and CPXs, but cost must less to deliver. The training package is updated every 100 days to incorporate changes in doctrine and new information, lessons learned and describe best practices learned from the seminars and CPXs.

Local municipality, county, and state emergency service assets are invited to participate in the seminar and CPX events, as well as the FBI and the U.S. Army North Defense Coordinating Officer in each Federal Emergency Management Agency region.

End State: Participation in IFPEX will result in increased technical proficiency of the garrison staff and the installation mission element staff to respond effectively to crisis management events.

Eligibility: Garrison Commanders, Installation Operations Center staff and Installation Mission Element Staff

Prerequisites: None

Course Substitution: None