# White Cell **Entity class:** Exercise-control function **Domain:** Military training / scenario design ## Definition A **white cell** is an exercise-control element that builds and manages the scenario around participants. Depending on the exercise it may script events, write injects, brief and update role players, coordinate observer-controllers, manage notional organizations and media, and protect continuity across the training environment. In the dramaturgical homology, the white cell combines elements of showrunner, writers' room, casting office, stage management, and continuity department. ## Relationships - **implements:** [[wiki/Producer Function|Producer Function]] in [[wiki/Scenario-Based Training|Scenario-Based Training]]. - **directs:** [[wiki/Role Player (Intelligence Training)|Role Players]] and scenario injects. - **machine-scale extension:** [[wiki/Generative Scenario Engine|Generative Scenario Engine]]. - **Army context:** [[wiki/United States Army Intelligence Center of Excellence|USAICoE]] training and intelligence exercises. - **source:** [[research/The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy|The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy]].