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Desktop to Dome: Air Force Integrates Global Training at the Speed of Real World Operations Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL’s) 711th Human Performance Wing, Warfighter Readiness Research Division, Mesa Research Site, is a premier location for world-class training research testbeds. AFRL partners with operational units, industry, and academia to develop sophisticated simulation technology capable of shaping and meeting operational training requirements. These multifaceted training research systems are designed and built through a collaboration of warfighters, scientists, and engineers. This unique arrangement provides the opportunity for researchers to conduct training research with the warfighter, in turn providing the warfighter with valuable integrated training, all within a research laboratory. Several of these systems are on display across the I/ITSEC show floor and will be incorporated into daily scenarios to showcase their integrated training capabilities. By incorporating game-based systems with high-fidelity trainers, Mesa will be highlighting the utility of smaller footprint, lower-cost options to augment training. Referred to as the complimentary family of trainers, this concept explores the ability of several incorporated devices to train the multitude of missions for each operator while reducing cost and increasing availability of training devices. The main booth (2244) will feature the Joint Terminal Attack Controller Training and Rehearsal System (JTAC-TRS) from the

Integrated Combat Operations Training Testbed (ICOTT) and several game-based training systems from the Gaming Research for Integrated Learning Laboratory (GRILL). The JTAC-TRS is a 200 X 220 degree field-of-view, 13-projector environment, providing an immersive experience for JTACs to rehearse and train, while researchers collect performance data, allowing analysis to inform future training requirements and syllabi. Game-based commercialoff-the-shelf systems include Virtual Battlespace II, X-Plane, Crysis, and Second-life. Across the floor on the Acme booth (2746), an F-16 Deployable Tactical Trainer (DTT) with Acme’s Dynamic Motion Seat (DMS) installed will be on display. This system is exploring the utility of minimal seat motion in a simulator to reduce operator error due to lack of vestibular clues. By providing some tactile feedback, the device can increase the operators’ situational awareness and provide key insight into the performance of the simulated airframe. Another DTT will be on display in the Immersive Display Solutions booth (1245), this one featuring a 3m partial dome visual system. Mesa is comparing this immersive concept with previous 3-screen cockpit layouts to determine what training gains, if any, can be realized. To complete their showcasing of trainers, the SDS (Desktop to Dome, p3)

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HIGHLIGHTS Monday November 29 SPECIAL EVENTS 0830-100 Tutorials – (see conference guide for locations) 1230-1400 Doing Business with Big Business: A Special Session for Small Business (Room S220F) 1245-1415 Tutorials 1430-1600 Tutorials 1500-1630 Warfighters’ Corner (Booth 685)

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International’s Reaper Mission Training Device (MTD) located at the Air National Guard booth (723) will be integrated into several of the scenarios. This system provides training to both pilot and sensor operators via a robust representation of the MQ-9 Reaper. SDS International, Mesa Research Site, and the Air National Guard have teamed up to research and improve the fidelity of training for Reaper operators. During the morning scenario, Swedish warfighters will connect from the Flygvapnets Luftstridssimuleringscenter in Stockholm, Sweden to the exhibition floor and interact with the JTAC-TRS, DTTs, AWACS via Plexsys (Booth 1225), and others to provide support for a non-governmental organization escort and protection scenario. The afternoon scenario will consist of the local players in a scenario with the JTAC coordinating close air support for a convoy. Interim times will feature smaller scale, interactive, game-driven scenarios incorporating the JTAC-TRS and assets including: Aptima’s DDD, Sonalyst’s Dangerous Waters, and other gamebased training systems. Noting how the combined scenarios will highlight the utility of games in the family of complimentary trainers, representatives for the Mesa Research Site express the belief that this ground breaking coordination of platforms puts their ongoing efforts at the forefront of discovery, development, and integration of affordable warfighting technologies. Cover photo: US Air Force

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I/ITSEC Continues to Grow and Serve the Customer It is another highly successful year for I/ITSEC with the floor space completely sold out. However, according to the president of NTSA, RADM Frederick L. Lewis USN (Ret) the success of the exhibition is also a reflection of the community’s awareness of its importance in assisting the services in saving costs and lives. “Its bigger and better than ever. We are sold out on floor space and its a record breaking year for that,’ Lewis told the Show Daily. “We are also expecting similar numbers for attendance as last year, despite the economic pressures that everyone is facing.” This year 595 companies have taken 226,000 sq ft of exhibit space. There has also been another strong showing on the new business front with over 40 new exhibitors. “We are a growth industry and that’s what this is clearly an indication of,’ he added. ‘As an industry we are responding to the changes in priorities from major customers in the Department of Defense [DoD] and new challenges from other users of the technology.” “Because of the economic pressures that we are seeing currently, our membership and NTSA are being careful to assure the customer community that we are working to save costs and help with efficiency savings wherever possible. There is no doubt that the modeling and simulation industry can help provide solutions that will assist with budgetary pressures,” Lewis stated. All the services are interested in looking at this. “Just recently there has been a major emphasis in the US Navy on simulation and

training capability and as a consequence we have the largest delegation of senior Navy officers that we’ve ever had in attendance,” Lewis explained. Looking at the main additions to I/ITSEC this year Lewis pointed to the new healthcare pavilion, which is pulling together some of the modeling and simulation technologies that are increasingly being utilized in the healthcare industry. “Modeling and simulation is rapidly expanding into many new and important areas, and a great many of these are represented on the exhibit hall floor. In particular, we are pleased to welcome the Society for Simulation in Healthcare as a participant this year, as part of the special healthcare pavilion,” Lewis explained. Also, following its success last year, I/ITSEC will again include an innovation showcase. The showcase gives companies the opportunity to explain to visitors some of the technologies that they have at the show and demonstrate what the capabilities can do. “Whether you are here as an exhibitor, government or military representative, or an overseas guest, I hope and expect you will find your time here well spent,” Lewis concluded.

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‘Cut Suit’ Unveiled at I/ITSEC 2010 One new product being unveiled at I/ITSEC 2010 is the Human Worn Partial Task Surgical Simulator (HWPTSS), from Strategic Operations [Booth 2913]. According to Kit Lavell, Executive Vice President at Strategic Operations, the company was created about eight years ago as part of a television / movie studio to apply movie-making techniques to military training. The company has since provided training to over 400,000 military personnel. “We coined the phrase, ‘hyper-realistic,’” Lavell said. ”And from the very beginning we understood that a very important component to live military training is the medical end, so we were one of the first to apply a lot of the movie-making techniques of medical makeup.” “Along the way, we decided that we wanted to ‘ramp up’ that medical realism, because we realized that medics and corpsmen and other first responders rarely get a chance to get very realistic training. In the military, the corpsmen or medics will generally get school training; pharmacological training; and, if they’re lucky, they get a chance to work around a hospital between deployments to build hands-on experience. But most of them don’t really get a chance to see all of the types of wounds they could expect to see in combat. Even if they do get limited experience in a hospital trau-

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Realistic ‘Cut Suit’ Simulation ma center, they don’t get that training together with their own units. And if they ever do it’s never under combat conditions, with simulated battlefield effects.” Enter HWPTSS. More commonly known as ‘Cut Suit,’ the extremely realistic device fits over human role players, allowing individuals to ‘act out’ injuries, providing both medical cues and distractions that a care giver must overcome in a tactical setting. “The suit itself is made out of different silicone-based materials,” Lavell explained. “The ‘skin’ is very realistic. When you cut it open it starts to bleed. It’s got realistic internal organs, like a circulation system with the heart actually pumping. There’s a reservoir of blood. You can start IVs and if you insert the needle correctly you get a little ‘return’ [of red fluid]. It’s very realistic. So are the sucking chest wounds, arterial bleeding from the femoral artery. You can even crack the ribs open and actually do some surgical procedures on it.” “For example, we can put inside various different packages of organs,” he continued. “So, if you wanted to simulate a gunshot wound to the chest with a lacerated liver, we could put those types of wounds into the internal organs in that chest cavity. Then the individual giving the care can cut into the suit, remove the fragmentation, suture organs and skin, clamp the skin; you can do just about anything with the skin because it’s so realistic.” Both skin and organs are replaceable and the ‘skin’ can also be glued back together nearly invisibly for dozens of training missions. “We think the system is more realistic than anything that’s out there,” Lavell observed. “It’s durable. It allows medical procedures that no other system allows. And in terms of the cost it is much less expensive than a traditional training mannequin.” “Last year, at I/ITSEC 2009, we participated in a small medical breakout session, where we had one of our early versions of our suit. It got a lot of attention there and over the last year we have brought that suit design to production-ready mode. This year is when we are actually launching the program to sell the device,” he said. During I/ITSEC 2010, a role player will demonstrate the suit at the company’s booth. In addition to the I/ITSEC displays, a second Cut Suit will head to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, where it will be a featured demonstration in a coalition military medical event at the Canadian Embassy.

NGRAIN Profits from Industry Shift NGRAIN (Booth 1725) is in its eighth year of exhibiting at I/ITSEC and according to the company’s CEO, Paul Lindahl, there has been a clear development in the focus of the training and simulation industry. “Initially when we were here, there was a lot of activity around the largest simulators, the weapon simulators and that. I’ve noticed in the last four years that you can actually see more and more organizations like us showing up. And usually that’s an indicator of a business opportunity,” Lindahl told the Show Daily. Those business opportunities have certainly paid off for NGRAIN, which announced today that it has delivered the 5 KW Power Generator Virtual Task Trainer to the Canadian Forces School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in Borden, Ontario. “They’ve actually got six projects ongoing with us at this moment, and they are part of a fairly significant army uptake of our NGRAIN solutions,” states Arnold van den Hoeven, the company’s Director of Canadian Defence. “The most recent development is the five kilowatt power generator, which supplies electrical power, and it’s one of those pieces of equipment that a lot of people are expected to know and be able to maintain, and often it ends up being left off the course,” he adds. “But they wanted to create an interactive solution that blends in

with one of our core differentiators, which is a 3D representation of that generator, and all the procedures for it, together with visualizing where the components are, as well as the electrical circuit diagram and functioning.” NGRAIN has also been very careful to adapt to what the customer needs. “One of the requests we had from our military customers, is can we take what we do in our training environment, at a typical base, and provide an environment in the field where you stand beside the equipment, and you need to replace the auxiliary power unit, and show how to do it. So we’ve now got our solution down on to a memory stick, where you plug the memory stick into any USB port, in any computer, and communicate that knowledge in interactive 3D at the point of need,” Lindahl explains. Another focus of change has been in the use of modeling and simulation to assist in the operation and sustainment of platforms. “It is all about operational performance and saving lives, but being a manufacturer of equipment, it is about profitability and cost-avoidance. So one of the challenges that industry is facing is recognizing that the largest cost of ownership occurs after it ships from the plant. In fact with most equipment, about 65-85% of the cost of ownership occurs in sustainment,” Lindahl states.

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BAE Systems Continues Drive for USAF Training Program BAE Systems (Booth 2601) is using I/ITSEC as a further opportunity to highlight its offering for the US Air Force’s (USAF’s) Advanced Pilot Training Family of Systems. The USAF is currently going through an Analysis of Alternatives on the back of two Requests for Information to look at options to modernize or replace its aging fleet of T-38 trainers. “We think [this year’s I/ITSEC] is a great opportunity, clearly with it being a year when the Air Force is the lead,’ Ian Reason, BAE System’s business development director for the air training systems business told the Show Daily. “It will be a great opportunity for Air Force customers who are directly or indirectly involved, to come and understand what we have, and we’ll have a 3D exhibit where we’ll be able to give quite a good overview and demonstration of the capabilities of the aircraft, particularly of any training capabilities, which is one of our discriminators.” The heart of the BAE bid is a version of its Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer. Other companies lining up for the program include Lockheed Martin, offering the T-50, and Alenia Aermacchi with the M346, which it has rebranded as T-100 for the US market. These are the same aircraft that were shortlisted in preference to Hawk in competitions in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. Boeing is also believed to be considering making a bid for the competition with an as yet undisclosed aircraft. Reason says the US requirement is better suited to what BAE Systems can offer. “The US Air Force has effectively articulated a very intelligent requirement for an advanced pilot training family of systems. This is going to be selected on the basis of delivering pilot training at lowest cost, we believe we have a compelling valueadded proposition, because we have a low cost, both upfront, but through life as well, in terms of managing our solution, and we are also low risk,” he asserts. “We have a solution that is fully developed, is in service, and is already selected by the UK, to train not just Typhoon pilots today, but the pilots of tomorrow. And we’ve also been selected by Australia as the lead-in trainer for F-35 and in Canada,” he adds.

Thales Ahead of Schedule for FSTA Training Thales (Booth 1401) has completed the construction of the training building at Royal Air Force (RAF) Brize Norton in the UK for the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) program more than four months ahead of schedule, according to the company. The facility will be the center of the RAF’s FSTA training activities over the next 24 years, and includes the simulator hall to house the full-flight simulator as well as purpose-built classrooms to support the program. FSTA is being run as a private finance initiative by the AirTanker consortium on behalf of the RAF. 10

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“The goal really for the T-X program is to offer a state of the art and proven aircraft training family of systems, to provide our US Air Force warfighters with the skills they need to train the world’s finest aviators to fight and win in combat. We at BAE Systems are totally focused on this end objective and have designed our HAWK AJTS suite of training technologies with this objective in mind,” Bob Wood, the BAE Systems lead Executive for the Hawk T-X campaign added. There is no doubt that the USAF requirement is immensely important to the company. “It is a strategically important opportunity, not just for Military Air Solutions, but for BAE Systems as a whole. So for us, this is clearly the most important opportunity for a flying training system. This is the last big one. So it turns out that we have a valued proposition, and a track record in delivering quality flying training over three decades, and we have products and the capability to be just as successful as we have for the last 30 years for the next 30 years,” Reason says. The focus for BAE Systems at I/ITSEC will not be just the USAF customer. “I think it is also, potentially, an opportunity for anyone who thinks they can add value to our solution. It will give us and them the opportunity to discuss how we can select partners, and sub-contractors, and teammates, to help us as we develop our US solution for the US requirement,” Reason concludes.

Thales has also confirmed that it is on schedule to start initial FSTA engineering training for the first batch of RAF technicians in January 2011. Initial conversion to type training of aircrew will commence in mid-2011 from the new training facility, which will house a CAA/EASA compliant full-flight simulator (FFS) and a parttask trainer, both of which are in production at Thales’s Crawley facility. The FFS is based on the ‘RealitySeven’ flight simulator product family and is reconfigurable between the civil and military roles. Victor Chavez, the new CEO of Thales UK, said that, “the FSTA training service program continues to achieve all milestones on schedule and the early completion of the training building emphasizes our commitment in delivering this much-needed capability for this important program.” The commencement of this training will mark another key activity and milestone in the FSTA program, which continues to run on schedule. The first two RAF KC30 aircraft are currently based at Airbus Military at Getafe, Madrid. The first aircraft is due to be delivered towards the end of 2011.

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CAE Works to Assist Military In Tough Economic Climate Like many other companies in the sector CAE (Booth 447), views the current challenging economic climate as an opportunity to show its military customers how its solutions can help to achieve the efficiencies that governments are demanding. “I think when times are difficult, those are the times to be very close to the customer, and understand the challenges that they have,” states Martin Gagné, Group President, Military Simulation Products, Training and Services. “I would say that this is one of the strengths that we have, plus the proximity to the customer, understanding their challenges and their needs and being able to discuss with them a potential solution – this is absolutely critical.” “We tend to stick very close to the customer to understand their challenges, then what we do is shape the solution, and bring in the pieces that the customer wants to consider, and very often as you can imagine, it’s a two-way street -- very often the customer wants to understand what are these elements of technology that are coming in to help them,” he adds. The company believes its global footprint and years of experience in the simulation and training world are key discriminators. “We have 29 training centers around the world. We train about 75,000 crews a year in our facilities, both sides – civil and military, so for

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us we want to continue to strengthen that,” says Gagné. CAE is keen not to rest on its laurels in the air environment. “On the land side, we definitely see more interest. In the past I think a lot of the training was taking place in the actual vehicles,” Gagné explains. “Today with the trend to first of all focus the use of the equipment on the actual operational mission, it means what else can you do in terms of keeping military readiness without burning the life of the actual equipment?” Martin Gagné “I think you also see other important factors, such as the environment, where it isn’t like the old days where you just hit the road, or the field. People are very sensitive to all of this, and the military has, obviously, to be responsive to that. So the whole environment, for being more green, and all these trends, is very important and is leading the military, including the land forces, to take a closer look at what modeling and simulation can bring to them,” he adds. As well as looking to become indispensable in the military space, CAE is also looking at some of the important adjacent markets. “I think at the right level of abstraction, we’re very much a company bringing solutions to people making complex decisions in a complex environment. Decisions that can have significant repercussions from a monetary point of view, but even more important from a human life one,” Gagné insists. “So, when you start to look at it from that point of view, obviously what we have done in the past working with the military, and working with the airlines, it’s absolutely a great place to be. But equally important today you look at healthcare, and this market is also looking for new ways to train the healthcare practioner,” he adds. “Healthcare is a great place for CAE to bring its technology, and so far it’s a very interesting journey because the people that we talk to in that very domain, right away they recognize CAE, and CAE’s brand name, as being the guys training airline pilots and military personnel, and right away you come in and people see a company like ours as being very credible to help them in terms of finding a solution,” Gagné concludes.

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Lockheed Martin Presenting ‘Must Sees’ at I/ITSEC 2010 Lockheed Martin is showcasing a number of ‘must see’ events in their booths (1955, 2154) at I/ITSEC 2010, according to Chester Kennedy, vice president of engineering. “The first one, ’Prepar3d,’ is a very robust medium fidelity simulation platform that has its roots in Microsoft Flight Simulator,” he explained. “In 2007 Microsoft built on that foundation to develop something they called ESP and we were one of the launch partners with them. ESP started to leverage the massive capability that had been built up around Microsoft Flight Sim in terms of third party providers that were developing add-ons.” Lockheed Martin acquired a license to the intellectual property when Microsoft left the market in 2009. “Since then we have taken it tremendously further technologically than what Microsoft had,” Kennedy said. “We’ve put a distributed interactive interface into it; We’ve built so many additional features into it that it really is a powerful training technology that enables you to get from a single high-end commercial off the shelf PC a very, very realistic simulation.”

“The number of things that we can validly train in this environment is increasing daily, as additional capability gets added on top of this,” he added. The second ‘must see’ area highlighted by Kennedy is Lockheed Martin’s Multi-Function Training Aid (MFTA). “Our MFTA is really built off Prepar3d,” he said. “And it gives you an example of what you can do when you take that foundation and put it together with some other technology a few years ago, when we bought a gaming company. That technology, called AltaSim, allows you to bring a virtual instructor into the game and to be able to fuse that together with Prepar3d.” “What you will see on the floor at I/ITSEC is this training aid configured for C-130s,” he noted. “And the amount of realism that we are able to generate in that in terms of the glass cockpit, working instruments, and positioning of the monitors in the ‘reach zone’ that a pilot would have to be able to see and touch in order to fly the airplane is really impressive. And the other neat thing about it is that I can transform today’s C-130 to a C-5; I can transform it into a ground vehicle; I can transform it into most anything you can imagine. And I can do that transformation in a matter of minutes, not days.” “The third ‘must see’ thing is something we are calling ‘The Hollow Wall,’” he continued. “We will have two compartments – for the show they will only be separated by a wall but it wouldn’t matter if they were separated by thousands of miles – to create a 3-D world where you can have a military sand table between two participants. And those two participants will both be seeing the same thing at the same time in a 3-dimensional space. You put the goggles on and you feel like there really is just a table standing between you and the other person.” “We see this as potentially having a lot of opportunities and being able to do things like helping transitioning forces perform a ‘right seat ride.’ While the incumbent is still in theater, the new replacement commander can come in and get a feel for what life is going to be like there, and learn about those issues that will shorten their learning curve once they get in theater.”

RAAF Receives F/A-18F Maintenance Trainers Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) personnel have begun training on two F/A-18F Super Hornet Integrated Visual Environment Maintenance Trainers (IVEMT) delivered by the US Naval Aviation Training Systems program office (PMA-205) to RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland, Australia in October. The IVEMT is an upgraded version of the US Navy’s Visual Environment Maintenance Trainer developed and built by Boeing (Booth 1001) and DiSTI (Booth 1325) specifically for the RAAF. The IVEMT includes cockpit and instructor operator stations, as well as student/aircraft interface trainer stations and a cockpit/trainer equipment station. It is a 3-D visual trainer that allows military personnel to virtually navigate through multiple aircraft systems. It provides maintainers training on ground operation, maintenance, and testing. It also offers troubleshooting procedures for the Super Hornet aircraft including avionics, environmental control, electrical, 14

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One of two Australian Super Hornet Integrated Visual Environment Maintenance Trainers installed at Amberley Air Force Base, Australia in October. flight control, fuel, engines, landing gear, and hydraulic systems. Australia has ordered 24 Boeing F/A-18Fs to provide an interim strike capability until the introduction of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Two batches totaling 11 aircraft have been delivered to RAAF Base Amberley since March 2010 and the remaining aircraft will progressively arrive through 2011.

Boeing’s groundbreaking integration of Live, Virtual and Constructive training domains (I-LVC) sets a new standard of training and readiness. With I-LVC, real aircraft can be integrated into exercises with simulators and computer-generated threats. It’s the latest addition to Boeing’s full spectrum of training capabilities, including live range training— unparalleled training options that reduce cost and most importantly, maximize personnel readiness.

KMW to Supply Leopard 2 Training System to Norway The Training & Simulation division of Germany’s Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) (Booth 1209) has been contracted by the Norwegian Army to deliver its BATSIM Classroom for the Leopard 2 tank. The system runs on COTS desktop computers to provide state of the art combat training on a serious games level with a ‘maximum of realism’. “This is a milestone in military simulation because with the BATSIM Classroom, a desktop simulation system is available which combines KMW’s expertise as a leading manufacturer of main battle tanks and of a proven simulation framework fielded in many armies worldwide,” said Dr. Dirk Schmidt, Senior Vice President, Training & Simulation, for KMW. “Our customers will appreciate the plug and play networking of our new BATSIM Classroom with their existing high-end simulators”. The training environment is tailored for the KMW Leopard 2 with physical replication of control elements and validated vehicle dynamics, vehicle logic and simulation of the fire control system, but the system can easily be adapted to combat vehicles from other manufacturers. The company notes that in the past, serious games largely failed to simulate realistic vulnerability and damage models, and lacked the sophistication to reproduce the operational characteristics of specific vehicles. Now ‘the quantum leap of commercial computer and graphic board development’ has enabled KMW Training & Simulation to condense its combat simulation software to fit and

run on a single COTS desktop PC. The BATSIM Classroom has been developed in close cooperation with experienced tank training experts to match their specific requirements. It features: • a powerful integrated man machine interface for instructors and trainees; • instructor independent training which allows trainees to progress at their own pace; • very flexible and intelligent computer generated forces suitable for a full range of scenarios, including for MOUT operations; • KMW’s COTS MilCIG visual system; • a dynamic high quality and high fidelity database; • dynamic objects in high detail and large variety; • and, networking with other simulation systems from KMW or other simulators supporting the DIS/HLA interface. The Norwegian Army will receive the simulators in 2011.

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Boeing Highlights Full Spectrum Training Solutions “What we are showing at I/ITSEC this year is representative of full spectrum training solutions that we can bring to the warfighter across air, land, and sea applications,” explains Dean Queathem, manager of Business Development for Boeing’s Training Systems and Services (Booth 1001). “And we bring that full spectrum capability whether it be computer based training all the way up to full simulator training.” As an example, he offered Boeing’s Constant Resolution Visual System (CRVS). “This is a new state-of-the-art technology visual system for single eyepoint simulators,” he said. “We have had it at I/ITSEC before, but it was still in various stages of development. We are under contract now and we started production. So what we are representing this year is the capability to provide a full 360 degree visual system that offers much higher acuity and fidelity than systems in the past.” “Constant resolution means that the targets you see are available throughout the entire field of view with the same acuity,” he continued. “Before, in older systems, you only got that acuity at single eyepoints. Also, from the cost effectiveness standpoint, the unique design uses far fewer projectors than previous designs on the market today. So you get the benefit of the higher performance system in a system that is less expensive because of the way it is designed.” The Boeing Company booth will also include two Deployable Mission Rehearsal Trainers (DMRT). “These are new, F-18 training devices to be deployed on aircraft carriers,” Queathem said. “They can be packaged up, carried aboard, and moved around the ship. They’re not full capability weapons trainers but they are mission rehearsal trainers that can be networked together – as they will be on the I/ITSEC floor. We have talked about this in the past but in terms of demonstrating them in final form that will be new this year.” Another new exhibit at I/ITSEC 2010 reflects Boeing’s participation in a competition for a new U.S. Navy ‘landing craft’ project called Ship-to-Shore Connector. “Our division will provide the full motion simulator trainer for that system,” he said. “So what you have in our booth is a virtual train-

ing demonstrator, meant for two purposes: to show folks a little bit about our Ship-to-Shore Connector solution, in terms of the control station; and also to demonstrate the type of training that could be provided for this new landing craft once it goes into production.” “We’ve also moved into a new area of ground forces training; how forces train in a more immersive, more realistic manner; how to do it virtually versus live training; how to take cost out; and how to possibly provide experiences that you can’t provide in a live situation,” he said. “So we have come up with what we call our Integrated Immersive Training Environment (I2TE),” he noted. “And a month and a half ago we performed a two day demonstration at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, involving role players, avatars, control room, and sound effects.” A centerpiece of the I2TE capability that will also be on display in the booth is called a ‘Virtual Mission Board,’ that Queathem described as an “interactive device, touch screen controllable, that provides for mission planning and rehearsal, rehearsal control, exercise control, and after action review.” “We will have that on display running, along with video depictions from our Fort Leonard Wood demonstration,” he said. Overlaying all of the other display elements will be kiosks highlighting a range of related technology advances. Although most of the demonstrations will be ongoing throughout the show, CRVS will be in an enclosed room, allowing I/ITSEC 2010 attendees to stop by and sign up for specific demonstration time slots.

ECS Introduces ‘Nexus Web’ Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS) (Booth 1046) is using I/ITSEC 2010 to introduce its web browser-based version of the Nexus virtual world. Nexus is a ‘virtual world’ developed for government that supports training and collaboration for the National Guard Bureau, Defense Acquisition University (DAU), Joint Forces Command, NATO, Department of Homeland Security, and other government stakeholders. Also called ‘Nexus Web,’ it is a collaborative virtual world that streams high fidelity 3D environments to a user’s browser. Users simply log in to the Nexus Web Portal to come together in a virtual environment for meetings, classroom training, or immersive role-based training. Nexus Web boasts a feature set that includes: event/class scheduling and editing; document sharing; venue selection; collabo18

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rative whiteboard; chat and VOIP with breakout groups; automated or facilitated evaluations; virtual PC hosting for shared desktops, and the ability to link to third-party sites. ECS developed Nexus Web under contract with the US Army Simulation and Training Technology Center (STTC) for the DAU to educate and train over 230,000 (50,000 classroom and another 180,000 on-line) students a year. ECS will be working closely with DAU instructors to begin classroom training in the January 2011 timeframe. “DAU saw the potential, took the lead, and invested into a Nexus Web capability,” observed Dr. Chris Hardy, Director of the Global Learning Technology Center for DAU. “We feel that this technology will revolutionize how we educate and train our students globally by offering an alternative delivery to both classroom and distance learning training.”

Warfighters Share Their Experiences at I/ITSEC Warfighers’ Corner is always a popular event at I/ITSEC, providing an opportunity for industry representatives and other attendees to hear first hand accounts from servicemen and women about their experiences in Afghanistan, Iraq and other Overseas Contingency Operations. A new addition this year will be a representative from the US Coast Guard speaking on Thursday. Speakers at Monday’s session, which will last from1500-1630 at Booth 685, are: US Army SSGT Christopher Stroklund (pictured right) currently serves with the 1st Battalion (Airborne), 507th Infantry Regiment, which has the responsibility of conducting the US Army Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia. He has served tours in both Afghanistan and Iraq. US Air Force Maj Doug Witmer (pictured above) is Chief of Wing Scheduling for the 355th Fighter Wing at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. He is responsible for managing Air Combat Command’s largest flying hour program supporting three A-10 fight-

er squadrons and exceeding 22,000 flight hours annually. Witmer has flown numerous combat missions with over 700 A-10 hours in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. US Navy LCDR Jason Colebank served in Iraq from March to December 2009 as an Electronic Warfare Officer assigned to the Joint CREW Composite Squadron One, Multi-National Corps-Iraq. US Marine Corps Capt Austin Adams is the Project Officer for Combat Vehicle Training Systems, at Program Manager Training Systems, which provides simulated gunnery training and tactical training for the M1A1, LAV, and AAV platforms. He recently returned from Afghanistan as the Marine Corps Systems Command Liaison Officer to the Marine Expeditionary Brigade – Afghanistan.

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NEWS IN BRIEF Atlantis to Provide CH-148 Training Team Atlantis Systems (Booth 2640) is to provide training support for the Canadian Forces’ Maritime Helicopter Project. Sikorsky Helicopters delivered the first of 28 CH-148 Cyclone helicopters earlier this month in an interim configuration. Atlantis’ subsidiary Atlantis Systems Eduplus of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, signed a contract with Sikorsky Aerospace Services in October to provide 21 instructors, simulator operators and training program support personnel to staff the Maritime Helicopter Training Center at Canadian Forces Base Shearwater, Nova Scotia. The MHTS consists of: two Operational Mission Simulators, each consisting of an integrated Flight Simulator built by Rockwell Collins and Mission Simulator built by General Dynamics Canada; one Mission Procedures Trainer built by GD Canada; one Aircraft Maintenance Trainer (AMT) consisting of an AMT (Upper) built by Rockwell Collins and an AMT (Lower) built by GD Canada; three Engine Change Unit Part Task Trainers (PTTs) built by Rockwell Collins; one Confined Spaces PTT and one Hoist Procedures PTT, both built by Rockwell Collins; and two Weapons Load PTTs built by GD Canada.

USN Awards Research Contract to Renaissance Science Renaissance Science, Chandler, Arizona, has been awarded a $9,750,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the research and development of virtual environment technologies in support of the US Navy’s simulation and training requirements, including analyses, studies and engineering in virtual synthetic environments. Work will be evenly split between the company’s facilities in Chandler and Orlando, FL, and is expected to be completed in November 2015. Contract funds totaling $254,272 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (Booth 2144) awarded the contract.

Austria Selects Saab OSAG 2.0 for Live Training Systems The Austrian Army recently awarded Saab (Booth 1624) a contract to provide the internationally interoperable optical code OSAG 2.0 for use by its family of Saab DuSim direct fire weapon

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effects simulators. The new code, which has already been selected by the Dutch and German armies, strongly improves the ability to conduct multinational exercises. An Interoperability User Community (IUC), including Austria, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK, has been participating in the development of the OSAG 2.0 Standard in order to encourage training between member states. Saab will deliver OSAG 2.0 during 2011 to the German Army‘s training center in Altmark, where both the Austrian and Netherlands armies regularly train. Benefits of OSAG 2.0 include: defined ammunition lethality and engagement effects, which are used between simulators from different countries; OSAG 2.0 ammunition types covering all IUC existing and planned weapons types which cover the needs of possible new IUC countries; improved realism, such as the effects of air burst ammunition; and an increase in the maximum number of exercise participants.

Vcom3D Demonstrates Military Mobile Apps Vcom3D (Booth 747), a leading provider of immersive gamebased solutions for training and mission rehearsal applications, will be demonstrating a range of Military Mobile Apps at I/ITSEC 2010. Examples include the company’s Vcommunicator Mobile language and culture mission aid and JKO-2-Go with learning management system integration via Apple and Android devices, communicating avatars, and the company’s innovative methodology that allows rapid development for many game engines and delivery on multiple platforms.

Concurrent Showcases Real-Time Simulation Technology Concurrent Computer Corporation (Booth 1815) will be showcasing several recent advances in real-time simulation and training technology at I/ITSEC 2010. Company representatives point to exhibit highlights including: ImaGen visual servers in action, running the latest 3D ImaGen visualization software – Presagis Vega Prime, Diamond Visionics GenesisRX and SAABN rendering software; SIMulation Workbench modeling software, allowing easy execution of dynamic models built using MathWorks MATLAB/Simulink; RedHawk real-time Linux with enhanced CUDA, with 20 microsecond real-time response for time-critical tasks in CUDA-based applications; and NightStar debugging and analysis tools that provide unprecedented insight into complex time-critical applications.

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