U.S. Marine Corps: Marine Corps Information Operations Center Completes Fourth Information Warfighter Exercise

Press release from the U.S. Marine Corps:

Capt. Erica Gober

2021-09-28

Services across the joint force, government agencies and partner nations participated in the fourth Information Warfighter Exercise at the Marine Corps Information Operations Center, Marine Corps Base Quantico, September 13-23.

IWX is a semi-annual event that focuses on the realistic application and execution of operations in the information environment.

The exercise is comprised of OIE planning which is subsequently executed in a field event and a realistic, immersive war game enabling OIE execution within an operating environment.

“IWX is one of our flagship events. The commandant has given us a vision of where we need to be and what the pacing threat is and this is one effort to get after improving our capacity and capability of operationalizing information now, in competition.” Col. Todd M. Manyx, MCIOC Commanding Officer

This press release was produced by the U.S. Marine Corps. The views expressed here are the author’s own.