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MDMP WORKBENCH · OPITEQ

One plan, from higher's order to yours.

A planning server for the brigade TOC. It reads higher's order for every staff section, puts every section's acetate on one map, and carries the plan through mission analysis, COA development, the wargame and the commander's decision into your OPORD and a clear overlay at true scale. Nobody is locked out, and every change is logged.

1 PC in the TOCevery laptop on the LAN0 internet required854 USGS 1:24,000 sheets around NTCtype 11S NV 33 06, land on the grid
Real screens, one operation: 1st AD OPORD 14-01 (ATROPIAN IRON) to 2-1 HBCT's OPORD 15-01, Fort Irwin, CAFull walkthrough in the FAQ

The acetate stack · try it

Each section's acetate. One map.

One map view from the run in the video. Turn each section's acetate on and off, the way any seat can in the app.

USGS 1:24,000 map of Fort Irwin with the MGRS grid

Each acetate has an owner

The S2's MCOO, the FSO's fires, the S3's operation overlay. The list shows whose each one is, and every seat can hide or show any of them on its own screen.

Anyone can add to one

The FSO can put a checkpoint on the S3's overlay. The screen says it's the S3's acetate, and the change is logged under the FSO's name.

Print it clear

Export one acetate as a clear PNG at 1:25,000, 1:50,000 or 1:100,000, with registration marks and marginal data, to lay on the paper map.

Exported clear acetate of the operation overlay with registration marks and marginal data

The first hours after receipt of mission

The order lands. Then every section re-types it.

  • S2Copies enemy, terrain and higher's PIRs out of a PDF into a brief and a CCIR list.
  • S3Pulls specified tasks out of higher's order, redraws higher's graphics on acetate, and drafts the order by hand.
  • XOWalks the TOC asking each section where they are, and who changed the overlay.
Soldiers kneeling in a field around a paper map
One map, one grease pencil, one section at a time.

The happy path · six steps

One order, every section, one plan.

The same run as the video, step by step. Pick a step to see the screen.

    Higher's order · BDE S3

    Brigade staff · what each seat gets

    Your section's work, already started.

    Each seat signs in to its own view: its intake questions from higher's order, its own acetates, and its cards in the products. Every seat can still open and add to anyone else's work.

    Rules of the road

    Nobody waits on a permission.

    Planning moves faster than any access list. The tool gets out of the way and keeps the record instead.

    Activity log listing who changed what, with edits to another section's work highlighted
    Activity: every change, who made it, when. Edits to another section's work are highlighted.

    Edit anything

    Any seat can add to or correct another section's answer, card or acetate. The screen says whose work it is.

    Work ahead or behind

    The unit is in mission analysis and you need the sync matrix? Open it. A thin banner reminds you the commander is on another step.

    Everything is attributed

    Every change carries a name, seat and time. Filter to edits on other people's work and to deletions.

    Command stays command

    Only the CDR and XO move the MDMP step and approve PIRs and the COA. You can only delete what you made.

    Soldiers working on laptops set on transit cases inside a TOC
    The server is one PC in a transit case. Laptops open it in a browser.

    Runs in your TOC

    No cloud. No install on the laptops.

    Server
    One Windows PC in the TOC. The plan lives in one file on it.
    Laptops
    Any browser on the TOC LAN. Every edit saves as it's made; moving to another page or pressing Refresh shows what the other sections have done.
    Internet
    Not required. Internet base maps are off unless someone turns them on.
    Maps
    USGS US Topo 1:24,000 sheets with the MGRS grid; 854 sheets cover NTC and the ring around it.
    Sources
    Every sheet links to its USGS record, with a SHA-256 fingerprint of the file on the server.
    Echelons
    Brigade first. Company (TLP), battalion and division staffs use the same tool.
    Export
    Briefing maps and clear acetates as PNG at true scale: 1:25,000, 1:50,000 or 1:100,000.

    Straight answers

    Questions the S6 will ask.

    Why not Palantir, what runs where, where your data goes, and a full walkthrough of a typical workflow.

    Read the FAQ

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