Why this
Why do we need this if we already have Palantir?
It does a different job. Palantir platforms bring data together across the force, with their own accounts, networks and support model. MDMP Workbench is one staff's planning room: it takes one order from higher and carries it through your plan, your acetates and your OPORD. It runs on one PC in the TOC, or in a browser here, with nothing to install on the laptops.
What's actually new here?
The whole MDMP in one place, tied together. Higher's order is read section by section and lands as tasks for each staff seat. Mission analysis, the COAs, the wargame, the sync matrix and the OPORD all build on the same plan, on the same real map. Nothing is retyped from one slide deck into the next.
We do this with PowerPoint and a paper map today. Why change?
Keep the paper map. Acetates export as clear PNGs at true scale with registration marks, to lay on the map on the wall. What goes away is copying between slides, versions and sections.
Does it follow doctrine?
The steps follow the MDMP in FM 5-0, and unit symbols are drawn to MIL-STD-2525 / APP-6. The products are the ones your staff already builds: the planning timeline, mission analysis, CCIR, the sync matrix, the decision matrix and the order.
Using it
What does a typical workflow look like?
The walkthrough at the top of this page follows one operation: higher's OPORD read for every section, each section confirming its answers, every acetate on one map, command decisions, and the order out.
How do I try it?
Use Try now: you sign in with your email and a one-time code; there is no password. Use unclassified training material only.
Can we run it in our TOC instead?
Yes. One Windows or Linux PC runs it with local-run; the first time it asks your rank, name, unit and seat, then opens your operations. It needs no internet once the map sheets are on the PC.
How do several sections work at once without overwriting each other?
Every edit saves as it's made. Moving to another page or pressing Refresh shows what the other sections have done. If someone changed the same item after your last refresh, the app tells you who and shows their version instead of overwriting it.
Who can change what?
Anyone can add to or correct another section's work; the screen says whose it is and the change is logged under your name. Only the CDR and XO move the MDMP step and approve PIRs and the COA, and you can only delete what you made.
Which maps does it use?
USGS US Topo 7.5-minute quadrangles (1:24,000) with the MGRS grid drawn by the app; 854 sheets cover NTC and the ring around it. On screen you zoom freely; the grid is exact at any zoom.
What if the order is a verbal FRAGO?
Start without a PDF. Each section fills in its intake form by hand, and the rest of the flow is the same.
Data and trust
Is it approved for SIPR?
No. It has no accreditation and is for unclassified training use. Load only unclassified orders, like the Pavilion example OPORD in the walkthrough.
Where does our data go?
Run in your TOC, nowhere: it stays in one database file on that PC. The online version keeps it in Opiteq's hosted database and is for unclassified training only.
Does it use AI on our order?
No cloud service sees the order. Your browser reads the PDF's text, finds the five-paragraph structure and pre-answers each section's questions with the paragraph they came from. The staff confirms every answer.
About
MDMP Workbench is made by Opiteq LLC for brigade and battalion staffs. Map data: USGS The National Map (public domain).