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Brave New World Awaits US Navy Future The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) is beginning to explore the potential of virtual environments in the training realm and is demonstrating the capability at a packed booth (400) at I/ITSEC. “The virtual world demo is one of several demos for NAWCTSD. In fact we have more demos this year than we’ve ever had,” explains Capt Bill Reuter, NAWCTSD’s commanding officer. “We have more flag officers coming to this conference than we’ve ever had. The reason for that is that the chief of operations and the Secretary of the Navy have been very, very vocal about their need for us as a Navy to raise the bar on how we leverage modeling and simulation for training,” he adds. The move into virtual worlds is one of the ways in which NAWCTSD is trying to fulfill that directive. “With the virtual worlds space we are trying, like many others, to take this pioneering technology of virtual worlds to a level where its actually going to add knowledge and can be used to train folks,” Reuter states. “A lot of folks have been running around this show for a while now showing virtual worlds. But what we are really trying to do is look at how does that environment, outside of it being collaborative for meetings and those other sorts of things, adds knowledge and proficiencies.” “We are looking at what we can do to create an environment, in this case in Second Life, where we are actually able to train folks and meet the kind of missions we have at NAWCTSD. So that’s the difference; we are developing an engaged environment,” Reuter continues.
Right now this is a familiarization exercise for NAWCTSD. “As a whole that’s our mission,” Reuter acknowledges. “Right now there is a video of me in Second Life talking about our mission and our products. We actually have an aviation simulator in Second Life so you can go in and operate an aviation simulator in Second Life. So its sort of a nested virtual presence if you will.”
“We are looking at what we can do to create an environment...where we are actually able to train folks and meet the kind of missions we have at NAWCTSD. “We think that teenagers are more familiar with and more easily immersed in these environments. We need to get better at adapting these environments to capitalize on what is already fertile ground for their engagement because of where the next generation of new recruits is coming from.” Looking at how virtual worlds can be useful Reuter turns to a specific example in the Navy Battle Stations XXI large scale ship simulator. “Well, if you know anything about NAWCTSD and some of our products, one of those is Battle Stations XXI. It is a big immersive simulator up in the Great Lakes area. There are things like that which create quite a shock when you go in to them physically and sometimes that shock can distract from the training value.” “Certainly you want to have folks suspend their disbelief but if they are in a state of shock then the learning can’t take place as readily. (Brave New World, p4)
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HIGHLIGHTS Tuesday November 30 INNOVATION SHOWCASE BOOTH 2885 SPECIAL EVENTS 0830-1000 Opening Ceremonies (Peabody Orlando Hotel, Windermere Ballroom) 1030-1200 General/flag Officer Panel (Peabody Orlando Hotel, Windermere Ballroom) 1400-1530 Enabling Ground Units for Distributed Joint Operations (Room S320GH) 1400-1530 Warfighters’ Corner (Booth 685) 1600-1730 The I/ITSEC Fellows Series (Room S320GH)
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Saab Supplies Counter-IED Training for British Army Saab Training Systems (Booth 1624) is providing counter-IED (C-IED) training for the British Army in the UK and abroad under the terms of a one year contract, worth approximately SEK120million ($17.1 million), awarded in mid-October. “Saab has developed a new modular training system to meet the evolving need to train troops in counter-IED. The system will be used prior to and on operations in remote environments with embedded personnel. I am fully convinced that this capability will save lives,” says Henrik Höjer, president of Saab Training & Simulation. In September 2009, Saab and the UK Ministry of Defence began examining the critical need to help troops in theater move to effectively counter the IED threat. By December, Saab recognized that most of the training and evaluation capability already existed. The critical shortfall it identified was the need for objective evidence about the use of Vallon hand-held metal detectors. Using its newly developed Agile Tactical Engagement System (ATES) Saab was able to integrate a prototype module in less than 53 days by using existing technology in an innovative manner and the MoD subsequently awarded the company a concept demonstration contract. During September and early October Saab personnel trained 1,612 soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade before their deployment to Afghanistan. The company is providing a managed training service with field teams comprising subject matter experts – former Royal Engineer
A small sensor placed on the shaft of the Vallon hand held mine detector provides the operator with dynamic feedback on his sweeping technique. search advisors and all-arms C-IED operators – to support the use of ATES C-IED and the delivery of post-action analysis. “It makes the training measurable, which the army has not been able to do until now,” Les Mitchell, program manager, training systems, within Saab Training Systems (UK) told the Show Daily. The system supports the rapid evolution of tactics, techniques and procedures, and equipment, as well as changes in the threat, to enable army C-IED training to remain ‘steps ahead’ of the enemy in Afghanistan.
Brave New World from page 1 So a virtual world technology to familiarize sailors with the dimensions of this environment, a little bit of familiarization with this environment can take away that shock and then they can learn more in the real environment when they get to it,” he explains “That’s one application. I think there are a ton of applications in the interactive world. We are working with Defense Acquisition University right now on one of their classes that requires a team collaboration event to do that in a virtual world.” Yet these still remain tentative steps for NAWCTSD. “We are at the exploratory stage with virtual worlds. We are working with Joint Forces Command [JFCOM] and it has a plan to have a relevant, steady presence in the virtual world for Joint Knowledge Online by 2013,” Reuter says. “Our folks and our emerging technologies team are engaged with JFCOM in getting that done. That has a ton of spin-off opportunities for the other knowledge online activity like Navy Knowledge Online and Army Knowledge Online.” “That’s really the path in that interactive training. Because right now when you go and do that online training and use that online material, frankly its boring and not all that engaging. And people are not garnering anywhere near the knowledge that they can if we create a more engaging environment,” he adds. “This isn’t the sexy simulator, the aviation simulator, this isn’t some of the other kinds of things. This is about changing how we’ve dealt with bricks and mortar powerpoint content and making it more engaging. Anybody who has got kids knows that they can’t click through powerpoint slides and learn from that environment”, Reuter concludes. 4
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L-3 Link Supports Old and New Generation Navy EW Aircraft L-3 Link Simulation & Training (Booth 2355) is providing support for the US Navy’s old and new generation of electronic warfare aircraft. At I/ITSEC, the company announced the award of a one-year contract option to continue as the prime contractor and provide support for the E-6B Prowler Aircrew Training System (ATS) which is located at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. This covers the provision of aircrew and mission crew training with instructor-led, computer-based and simulator training. The contract option boosts the total E-6B ATS program value to $57.1 million. L-3 Link trains approximately 1,400 E-6B Prowler crew members each year. At the same time, the Navy is planning to acquire 114 Boeing EA-18G Growlers through Fiscal Year 2013 to equip 15 squadrons and replace the Prowler. A significant milestone for the aircraft’s introduction to the fleet occurred on 5 March when Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron (VAQ) 129, the EA-18G Fleet Replacement Squadron, graduated the first class of aircrew that entered the squadron straight from flight school. The course consists of various computer-based training, lectures, simulators and flights throughout the nine-month syllabus. L-3 Link provides the EA-18G Tactical Operational Flight Trainer (TOFT) to support Growler training. Derived from the company’s F/A-18E/F trainer, the EA-18G consists of two high fidelity, independent cock-
pits that support both the aircraft’s pilot and Electronic Counter Measures Officer stations. This latest generation of trainers are equipped with the company’s SimuSphere visual system display. Two Growlers began validation with the Airborne Electronic Attack Weapons School, the newest training department at Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center in Fallon, Nevada, on 12 November. Training will be similar to the training program for the EA-6B with an emphasis on electronic attack protection and the inclusion of Top Gun lectures covering air–to-air combat. L-3 announced at I/ITSEC that it has received a $24.1 million Foreign Military Sales contract from the Navy to provide the Kuwait Air Force with two F/A-18C TOFTs and associated training equipment. L-3 Link will also deliver two instructor operator stations, a brief/debrief system, associated computational systems, a night vision training system and a theater-specific visual system database. Delivery of these systems will mark the 16th and 17th F/A-18 TOFTs supplied by L-3 Link to an international military customer.
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Keynote Offers ‘Provocative’ Address Named as the President of Texas A&M University in February 2010, Dr. R. Bowen Loftin, represents the first I/ITSEC keynote speaker drawn from academia. Loftin, who will speak at today’s opening ceremonies, comes to I/ITSEC 2010 as an internationally recognized scholar in the field of virtual reality with specific expertise in the use of advanced software technologies to develop three-dimensional, virtual environ-
“I hope to spend a little bit of time reminding people where we came from and then talk about what I consider to be the fundamental challenges
ments for training astronauts and soldiers to undertake a variety of tasks. “I came to I/ITSEC for 16 years in a row,” he observes, adding that scheduling conflicts with the Texas A&M annual Board of Regents meeting has precluded his attendance for the last few years. Loftin says that he hopes to challenge attendees in his address, adding, “I hope to spend a little bit of time reminding people where we came from and then talk about what I consider to be the fundamental challenges we have today. Then I hope to talk about how the partnership between industry, government, and academia can, in fact, meet those challenges.” Asked whether he could offer any advice for a first time I/ITSEC
attendee, he responds,” I think you’ll bring away – whether you want to or not – the fact that this is a big community of individuals, companies, and agencies that make use of modeling and simulation. You might also get a little bit of discomfort, as I do, because we tend to have somewhat of a lack of coherence.” “Even though we have worked together for a long time and there is a community of people doing this work we don’t always have a coherent view and a coherent strategy about how to really move the field ahead. In fact, one might ask if there is really a field? Several years ago I was part of an effort, led by mostly academics but also by some government folks as well, to develop a ‘body of knowledge’ for modeling and simulation – to basically define what it means. That went on for a while and kind of sputtered out. We never got closure on it to my knowledge, so I think that’s still out there as an ‘undone’ kind of thing.” To illustrate the situation, Loftin used the historical example of a professional being ‘defined’ by their degree pursuit. “If you were a mechanical engineer you could certainly go on to do other things in your life. But when they asked you who you are, you’d say that you’re a ‘mech – e.’ Especially as an undergraduate, you were indoctrinated into that. There were certain key textbooks you read. There were certain things you did in your educational experiences, whether they were at Texas A&M, Virginia Tech, MIT, USC, wherever you went, which put you in a common body of people doing that same work with that same degree. But we aren’t there yet. There are only a couple of undergraduate programs involving simulation out there today. And that’s where it’s defined. Because by the time you get a bachelor’s degree – as a ‘double e’ [electrical engineering], physics, mathematics, whatever engineering field you might be in – that has defined you a bit.” Pointing to a range of classic ubiquitous textbooks that support his concern, he notes that “it was just this last year that the first real textbook came out designed for undergraduates in modeling and simulation.” He pointed to a few other concerns, such as “a lack of a shared strategy in terms of R&D investments and a sense of what we have to solve to move the field forward together.”
You Are the Avatar In Raytheon BBN Urban Training Experience Raytheon BBN Technologies (Booth 2323) is displaying its Virtual Role Player (VRP) technology at I/ITSEC this year. VRP allows users to deliver real-world training scenarios and interactions in a virtual world. The booth display shows how users can interact with VRP characters through their own avatar using natural body movements, speech and gesture. The vignette demonstrates the use of BBN Technologies’ VRP solution through an intelligent agent modeling and simulation roadside security checkpoint training experience where the avatar
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naturally engages and communicates with VRP characters. According to the company, its approach combines real-time speech recognition with large vocabulary, statistical grammars, a low-cost 3D time-of-flight camera, intelligent behavior modeling, and speech synthesis technologies that enable next-generation VRPs to interact. The artificial characters effectively participate in conversations and react to human movement and gestures. They can perform in a variety of realistic, instructionally rich
environments – such as the roadside checkpoint scenario on display – to provide individual or team training opportunities without the cost and risks involved with live training. The VRP solution effectively allows trainers to teach both core tactical skills as well as being able to tune the characters in the scenario to react to specific cultural cues. The application of VRP and other technologies like it are helping to expand the training repertoire of US and coalition forces prior to deployment.
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Healthcare Features Prominently at I/ITSEC 2010 A major theme of I/ITSEC 2010 is the recent growth of simulation in healthcare and the potential for expanding growth in the coming years. The healthcare arena will be highlighted throughout I/ITSEC, in events ranging from a special event panel to a dedicated Healthcare Pavilion. “The two largest simulation societies out there are the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) and the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL),” explains Dr. Michael DeVita, MD, Past President of SSH and a panelist in Wednesday’s special event. DeVita notes that both societies have seen significant growth, offering the SSH’s 2004 founding by approximately 100 members that has subsequently expanded to over 2,600 members in 41 countries. INACSL, founded in 2002, now includes 1175 members from around the world. “Both of those societies publish simulation journals,” he notes. “And there are a number of other societies around the world. There’s a European society. There is an Australian society. There is also a group called the Association of Standardized Patient Educators where, instead of using simulators to simulate, applies simulation techniques using real patients. These societies are now affiliating with each other, creating a worldwide network of people interested in simulation and who are devoted to not only the development of the field – improving technologies, the types of courses available, and their quality – but also in promoting the use of simulation in all forms of a healthcare educational environment.” “We’re trying to get it into nursing schools, respiratory care schools, medical schools, and so on,” he continues. “And I think it’s fair to say that we all believe we are at the cusp of a new age in healthcare education and design that is going to be based on experiential learning at least as much as it is based on book or lecture learning.” “I think it’s important for people to understand that this is a worldwide phenomenon,” he adds. “We recognize that it is all very new and, in a sense, we are inventing the wheel in our profession but to the extent possible we are copying work that other simulation groups have already done for organizations like the military.” He concludes, “One of the struggles we are having is that not everyone realizes we exist and that we have these goals. And I think that if we can promote our societies as organizers and facilitators of this growth in healthcare simulation then we will have done our jobs.” Specific capabilities in the growing healthcare arena are highlighted in this year’s new I/ITSEC Healthcare Pavilion (Booths 1573 – 1678) by companies including B-Line Medical, CAE, Syndaver Labs, Laerdal Medical, Gaumard Scientific, and Innovation in Learning, Inc. “We felt it was important for us to be here,” states SFC (Ret.) Karla Currie at Laerdal. “This is a wartime Army and we are in a wartime environment with acts of terrorism and we wanted to 10
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show that we have viable solutions for training a broad range of health professionals in patient care.” “We were at I/ITSEC last year for the first time,” adds Laerdal’s Terry Frazier. “We were excited about what we saw here last year. We are certainly excited to be a part of I/ITSEC and this Healthcare Pavilion. We’ve got some top-of-the-line human patient simulators that can help the medical community understand that there are good, viable alternatives to live tissue training. Our simulators give great bang-for-buck. They are rugged and durable. And they can simulate nearly everything that can go wrong with a human. And they are ‘treatable’ not only from a first responder standpoint but all the way through to your highest trained physician.” “Human medical simulation gives our first responders and medical personnel the opportunity to ‘engage’ with some pretty severe trauma, some pretty dramatic medical effects, and puts them in a mindset so that once they are actually engaged they have already ‘been there.’” “I’d like people to be aware that there are viable options out there,” echoes Currie. “If you truly want to train as you fight, we have patient simulators out there that Tetherless Child Simulator you can take from point of injury all the way back through intensive care.” Gaumard’s Mike Graf raises similar issues when he talks about his company’s line of “tetherless simulators.” “We have the only entire tetherless family for simulation,” Graf asserts. “Every one of our mannequins has no cords – they are totally wireless systems. There are other manufacturers who have wireless adults. We have an entire family, ranging from a ‘preemie’ all the way up to our birthing mannequin. The birthing mannequin is actually the only automatic birthing mannequin in the world. There are some other birthing mannequins – we actually produce a few – but she is the only automatic tetherless birthing mannequin.” “Healthcare has been a big growth area for us,” he observes. “And, as time goes on, ‘clinicals’ are getting very scarce, not only for colleges but for programs as well. And this is a way that the students can practice their clinicals. I like to look at it that simulation is the place to make mistakes. Our patients don’t have ‘reset’ buttons. We can’t push a button and start over. But with simulation we can take a timeout, stop, and ask whether we are doing good or bad for our patients. We don’t have that luxury when somebody is bleeding out in front of us.”
Spotlight Falls On Cyber Warfare at I/ITSEC This year one of the special events will focus on the relatively new area of cyber warfare and what some of the training requirements could be for the next generation of cyber warriors. On Thursday, a panel session at 1030 in room S330AB, titled ‘Opportunities and Missing Links: the Role of Modeling & Simulation in Cyber Training and Readiness for the Battle of the Narrative,’ will be moderated by Dr. Elaine Raybourn from Sandia National Laboratories. Panelists will include some of the most significant voices in cyber warfare. “Cyber warfare is arguably the next warfare frontier that we are all going to be faced with,” Kent Gritton, Director, Joint Training Integration and Evaluation Center, and a principal of Team Orlando, told the Show Daily. “Statements have been made across the board from very influential people, from the Secretary of Defense and Deputy Secretary of Defense on down. And many commands have ‘stood up’ to deal with cyber warfare across each of the services and across the
Department of Defense [DoD] as a whole,” he explained. “We in Team Orlando are material developers of training solutions, but we are not heavily invested in figuring out how to provide training for the cyber warfare community. There are many reasons for that. We do have some expertise in there, but it’s in little pockets. For example, PEO STRI has some expertise as do some others,” Gritton added. “Its principally not as strong a field as we’ve had elsewhere. With that, we as a collective understood that we needed to investigate this further; we need to understand it further. And, while we needed to understand it, the general community also needed to understand it better – what training meant for cyber warfare,” he continued. “Each of the services thought about it a little bit differently and as such there was no real common understanding. That prompted us to take a look at it from the emerging concepts section within I/ITSEC and to put on a special event. The special event is a panel session with several key members throughout DoD who are involved with cyber warfare and will explain some of the nuances – what to expect and where things are going,” he said. “Just recently a cyber warfare training initiative was wrapping up and we’re trying to get an insight into what that training initiative really RADM Frederick L. Lewis, USN (Ret), NTSA President (on left) congratulates means. That is going to prove beneficial to indusWaymon Armstrong, CEO of Orlando-based Engineering and Computer Simulations try to say, ‘OK, this is where some of the require(ECS) on his recent recognition by President Barack Obama during National Small ment signals are coming from. So we know what Business week in Washington, D.C. we need to work on.’ And for the government indiArmstrong received the “2010 National Small Business Person of the Year” viduals it’s a meeting of the minds, a coalescing of award, the first such recipient in the Modeling and Simulation (M&S) community, each of the various possibilities and trying to in recognition of his guidance of ECS, which he founded in 1997. come up with what the right solutions are,” ECS has been on a growth path for the last several years, expanding revenues Gritton affirmed. from $1.5 million in Fiscal Year (FY05) to more than 10 million in FY09. There is no doubt that the US Armed Forces Company employment has tripled over the past five years, growing to a current are taking cyber warfare seriously and it will be up size of approximately 60. to the training establishment to begin formulating At the time of the original award, Karen Mills, Administrator of the U.S. Small the right training requirements and systems to Business Administration observed, “Waymon’s commitment to his employees and develop a first generation of cyber warriors. to his business – Engineering & Computer Simulations, Inc. – demonstrates the “We have got to get involved with cyber sooner qualities that make small business such a powerful force for job creation in the rather than later. We cannot afford to stand by American economy and in their local communities.” and wait for the best thing to come along, We’ve got to get ahead of this one,” Gritton concluded.
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SAIC’s Integrated Capabillities Empower Warfighters Under the theme ‘Empowering Through Integration’ Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is showcasing its training technology in a range of applications on Booth 1640. SAIC will demonstrate the capabilities of the company’s Virtual Command Simulation Environment (VCSE), powered by its On-Line Virtual Interactive Environment (OLIVE), in a number of scenarios relevant to overseas contingency operations and homeland security, including: • Counter-terrorist combined arms coordination • Urban cyber defense operations • First responder emergency medical simulation • Rogue nation missile testing detection and defense Players at 10 locations across the country will be participating in these scenarios. Noting that there is nothing new about distributed operations, David Rees, senior vice president, special projects director, pointed out to the Show Daily that what is new about VCSE is the ability to rapidly integrate a vast variety of information and imagery from satellites, sensors, streaming video and web content, powerpoint, distributed
operations, live exercises and more to enable faster, real-time decision-making and rapid response. SAIC will unveil innovative features to its Common Driver Trainer (CDT) product range, including a reconfigurable Crew Cab (CDT/C2) variant that supports collective task training. The prototype on display is configured as an RG-33 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle mounting an articulated arm to interrogate improvised explosive devices. An improved visual display enhances the fidelity of the visual scenes while also reducing the CDT’s footprint and total life cycle costs. Two further enhancements will be introduced over the next several weeks: a dash panel to replicate the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle and the simulation of Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station operation. On 14 November the US Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), Project Manager for Ground Combat Tactical Trainers released a Request for Information for a CDT Program of Record (POR) to support the Training and Doctrine Command schools with institutional driver training and unit commands with driver sustainment training.
SAIC’s Virtual Command Simulation Environment (VCSE) is powered by the company’s On-Line Virtual Interactive Environment (OLIVE).
SAIC’s new reconfigurable Common Driver Training Crew Cab variant supports collective task training. Since 2004 SAIC has supplied 14 Stryker CDTs, 18 CDTs for the M1A1/2 tank, 7 MRAP CDTs at static locations and 13 mobile MRAP CDTs. With its new generation CDT, SAIC believes it is well placed to meet the requirements of the CDT POR. SAIC is also showcasing its mobile training range which includes: fourth generation range instrumentation capability; innovative wireless Tactical Engagement Systems for vehicles and dismounted warfighters; secure WiFi and high resolution video capture; and software definable radio solutions.
ITEC Takes On German Flavor for 2011 Next year ITEC, Europe’s leading conference and exhibition for military training, education and simulation technology and services, will take place at Koelnmesse, Cologne from 10-12 May 2011. According to Anne O’Reilly, ITEC Conference Committee Chair, “this innovative program simultaneously reflects the relentless challenges posed within these new realms of warfare and the continued investment in defense simulation and training, ensuring that international militaries stay one step ahead of the ever-evolving threats to global security.” ITEC 2011 has taken a strategic view of the industry and is introducing four ‘super-themes’ to the conference agenda. According to ITEC, this pioneering step focuses on a series of compelling sessions and will examine every aspect of current and
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future training and training technology: Cost-Effective Training – the Human Factor, Systems and Technology, Training for Current Operations and Training Futures. In light of the deep cuts currently being made to global defense budgets, the analysis of the most cost-effective training solutions is expected to be of particular interest to delegates. Investigation of the human factor will, for example, focus on how to optimize the use of simulation and virtual environments while training to enhance medical research, emergency management and appreciation of culture and language. For those with an interest in training for current operations, a super-theme will focus on the important innovations in current counter-IED training and disaster management, as well as the lessons learned from recent conflicts. The air operations theme continues to be as popular as ever and for 2011 will include a rotary wing session with contributions from British and German military air training establishments.
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NEWS IN BRIEF Ternion Releases Flames Version 9.0 at I/ITSEC Ternion (Booth 2271) has released the latest version of its suite of COTS software products that address all aspects of constructive simulation development. Flames Version 9.0 offers a number of major new features and a variety of enhancements. Among those features are: a built-in Semi-Automated Forces (SAF) capability; a new 64-bit version for Windows; a new path-finding algorithm; 3D scene improvement; and dynamic command editing. “Flames 9.0 achieves a goal we have been working towards for many years,” said Brad Spearin, president of Ternion. “Right off the shelf, FLAMES supports SAF with distributed, interactive control of scenario players during execution. We are excited to deliver this much-anticipated feature to our customers.”
MYMIC Demonstrates CoMETT Training Software Solution at I/ITSEC MYMIC (Booth 2633) will be doing live demonstrations for the first time of their newest training software: CoMETT, a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research project funded by the US Air Force Research Lab. CoMETT is a training environment that supports small teams training over a highly distributed, collaborative training environment. Demonstrations will take place on Tuesday at 1300, 1500 and 1700, Wednesday at 1000, 1500 and 1730, and Thursday at 1000 and 1400.
tion and C2, based on doctrinally grounded intelligent behaviors. This capability greatly reduces the need for simulation operators to drive command and staff training for exercises.
Night Readiness Virtual Terrain Board Enables Night Vision Training Night Readiness (Booth 2711) is displaying its Virtual Terrain Board 3.0 (VTB 3.0) night operations night vision goggle classroom (NVG) training system. The new VTB 3.0 system includes a full range of environmental, illumination, and terrain conditions. These are displayed dynamically to be viewed either with NVGs or unaided in a classroom environment.
Rockwell Collins Real-Time LVC Demonstrations Rockwell Collins (Booth 2100) will demonstrate its live-virtual-constructive simulation and training solutions on Tuesday at 1200 and 1630, Wednesday at 1230 and 1630, and Thursday at 1030 and 1330. Rockwell Collins is also demonstrating its EP8000 image generator.
VDC Display Systems introduces New Projector VDC Display Systems (Booth 1055), a division of Video Display Corporation, has announced the launch of its new EST (Extreme Short Throw) SSL7000HD projector. It is being displayed at I/ITSEC 2010 in a 2 x 2 multi projector seamless image configuration (75 inches x 142 inches).
Presagis Unveils HeliScene Presagis (Booth 2301) has unveiled HeliScene, an innovative helicopter mission and operation rehearsal application framework that provides a flexible and open turnkey option for organizations looking to provide researchers, pilots, and trainees with access to a realistic helicopter environment. HeliScene combines Presagis software tools Lyra IG, STAGE, and HeliSIM with a dedicated COTS hardware environment.
Saab Teams with MASA for C2 training Saab’s (Booth 1624) new Command and Control (C2) training offering will be powered by MASA’s (Booth 2577) Battle Command Constructive Simulation, MASA Sword. The Saab C2 training solution will provide a bi-directional link between simula-
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ZedaSoft Debuts Reconfigurable Cockpit ZedaSoft (Booth 1237) has debuted its new Reconfigurable Cockpit System (RCS) fighter control at this year’s I/ITSEC. The company has developed its RCS solution to complement its simulation software framework, CBA for Simulation. According to ZedaSoft, it has been designed to provide the defense laboratory and business development marketplace with a cost-effective modular system that can represent multiple types of aircraft. On display at I/ITSEC is the fighter configuration of RCS. The company displayed a two seat helicopter configuration of the RCS in April this year at the Army Aviation Association of America symposium in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Warfighters’ Corner Provides Unique Insight of Contingency Operations Around the World Warfighters’ Corner (Booth 685) remains one of the most popular events at I/ITSEC, providing industry representatives and other exhibition attendees the opportunity to hear representatives of each of the services discuss their training, preparation and deployments. The speakers on Tuesday will be: US Army SFC White has been serving with ‘C’ Company, 1st Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment at Fort Benning, Georgia as an Airborne School platoon sergeant since January 2009. He has completed one deployment in Iraq and three deployments in Afghanistan, and has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in Afghanistan. US Navy CAPT Frank McCulloch recently returned home from a one-year tour in Pakistan where he served as the senior US Navy liaison officer co-ordinating capacity building engagements and training opportunities between
the Pakistan Navy and the US. As Executive Officer of the 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion US Marine Corps Reserve Lt Col Richard Crevier planned and supported pre-deployment training for one company in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and for two companies in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He later trained the battalion for combat operations in Southern Helmand Province, Afghanistan. US Air Force Capt Pritchard Keely (pictured) serves as the chief of standardization and evaluation and as an F-15E weapons systems officer instructor with the 335th Fighter Squadron at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. He received the 2010 Col James Jabara Award for Airmanship for his heroic actions during a 2008 sortie supporting US and Afghan National Army ground forces. These presentations will take place from 1400 to 1530.
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One of the exhibitors returning to the show this year is projectiondesign (Booth 975), which has a number of new products on display. Speaking to the Show Daily, Mike Raines, Visual Simulation Manager at projectiondesign said, “The I/ITSEC conference and exhibition is at the center of visual simulation trends, and we’re returning to this year’s event to meet new and current partners with the most complete array of solutions.” “We’re previewing our new NVG stimulation IR enabled LED projection technology which is the company’s first foray into night vision,” he continues. “We’re showing our F35 wqxga projector putting 4 megapixel high-resolution imaging within reach and for us the F35 wqxga is one of the most exciting products we have on show. It is being widely adopted, and can be seen many places on the display floor.” “Also our MIPS multiple image processor can be used in multi-channel displays, as it is a dedicated hardware geometry correction and image processor engine. Our visual simulation team is helping to strengthen and bring a focal point for the development of product features so we can invest in bringing highly tailored products to each of our specialist partners, many of which have our products on display here at the show,” Raines concludes. Among the companies at I/ITSEC utilizing projectiondesign’s solutions are: 3D Perception (Booth 2585), BAE Systems (Booth 2601), Cubic Corporation (Booth 1255), Display Solutions (Booth 2385), Presagis (Booth 2301), RSI Visual Systems (Booth 2771), Scalable Display Technologies (Booth 2810) and VDC Display Systems (Booth 1055).
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NGRAIN Remains US Army Transportation Schoolʼs Choice for Maintenance Training Solutions
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NGRAIN (Booth 1725) today announced that the US Army Transportation School at Fort Eustis has selected the company to deliver another simulation-based training solution, this time to train maintainers of the P-100 diesel portable pump system. The NGRAIN Virtual Task Trainer (VTT) solution will support parts familiarization and procedure training. It leverages 3D simulations of the P-100 diesel pump, and will provide students with the ability to virtually practice installation, maintenance and repair procedures while receiving automated guidance and feedback. “We have compared NGRAIN to other solutions, and NGRAIN stands out as delivering highly detailed, interactive solutions that are focused on training best practices,” said Donald Topping, Chief, Maritime Simulation Division, Transportation School, Fort Eustis. “Our ability to use NGRAIN solutions in a variety of ways across our programs and with other schoolhouses makes the investment a no-brainer. We expect to continue realizing the great results we have already experienced with NGRAIN.” NGRAIN began its work with the US Army Transportation School when it delivered a 3D training solution for the diesel engine course. Using a 3D knowledge object of the 12V71 engine, instructors develop training programs to improve students’ knowledge base of the engine prior to working on the real equipment.
Elbit Systems (Booth 1337) announced yesterday that it had been awarded a contract to supply an advanced training and simulation solution for the Royal Netherlands Army. The system will be supplied during 2011. Its new Command and Staff Trainer will train battalion and brigade-sized headquarters staff and provide users with a trainer for the widest variety of operational scenarios - both low and high intensity conflicts and for Operations Other Than War. It also enables training for civilian military cooperation, for example with municipal authorities, police and medical organizations, such as the Red Cross. The system combines full training with qualitative debriefing. The simulation takes place within the operational headquarters and is connected to command, control and communications systems. The advanced High Level Architecture enables compatibility of the training with the specific needs of every trainee. With the help of a user-friendly interface and advanced artificial intelligence, the trainer also enables minimal use of personnel and thus saves training costs as well.
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New Meggitt Target Replicates Check Point Challenges US Army soldiers can experience the difficulty of hitting a moving target with changing aspects with the introduction of Entry Control Point Moving Target (ECPMT) from Meggitt Training Systems (Booth 1715) which replicates situations soldiers face at security checkpoints in Afghanistan and Iraq. The ECPMT comprises a vehicle target, engine hit sensor, type-E 3D Stationary Infantry Targets (SITs), prime mover, Battle Effect Simulator (BES) and a controller. The 3D vehicle target replicates an oncoming truck while inside are two SITs representing the vehicle driver and passenger. The target carrier moves on a serpentine track, designed to replicate a vehicle moving through Jersey barriers. It initially travels in a straight path (approaching the check point) at speeds of up to 20mph, and then follows a serpentine path around barriers at a speed of 9mph as it nears the observation tower/bunker. Hit sensors on the vehicle grill area score a
vehicle kill and cause the BES to ignite pyrotechnic cartridges that simulate an explosion. Soldiers can use weapons up to the .50 caliber heavy machine gun. The first ECPMT was completed at Fort Bliss, Texas, in June and the second at Fort Hunter Liggett, California, in September. ECPMT is a five-year, firm, fixed price, indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contact with a maximum total quantity of 50 lots, each of which is valued around $300,000. Scott Rupert, Program Manager, Meggitt Training Systems, told the Show Daily that he expects contracts to be awarded in the first or second quarter of 2011 for additional systems at Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Carson, Colorado. “I’m hoping every major US military installation will eventually receive at least one ECPMT sometime in the next five years,” he said. “We’ve had some discussions with TACOM Life Cycle Management Command Rock Island about extending the engine block hit sensor system to 3 dimensional,” said Rupert. “This would allow hits from the front grill, left and right sides. Basically replicating a real vehicle engine block. We’ve also discussed light armor protection for the main electronics, this would help re-direct potential ricochet and debris strikes.”
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Boeing Completes First Wedgetail Course for Australia The first Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) mission crew training course for personnel from the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) was completed in mid-November at RAAF Base Williamtown, New South Wales, Australia. Eight instructors and three role players from Boeing Defence Australia provided eight RAAF students with more than 1,200 hours of programmed training on the airborne battle management aircraft’s mission systems during the seven-month course, which began in March. Boeing designed and developed the Operational Mission Simulator to support the Wedgetail project. Based on Boeing’s Next-Generation 737-700 commercial aircraft, the Wedgetail is able to track airborne and maritime targets simultaneously through the advanced MESA radar and 10 mission crew consoles. At any moment during a typical 10 hour mission, the Wedgetail can maintain surveillance over an area of 400,000 sq km. In December 2000 Boeing received a contract for four Wedgetail aircraft which was extended in June 2004 to include two optional aircraft. Technical problems with the first of type aircraft delayed delivery of the first pair of Wedgetails from 2006 until November 2009. The third aircraft was delivered in June 2010, with the handover of the final Wedgetail expected in 2011.
Boeing Defense, Space & Security (Booth 1001) received an initial A$800 million ($772 million) five-year In-Service Support contract in January 2010 with Northrop Grumman (radar) and Boeing’s Australian subsidiary, responsible for program management, supply chain management and engineering, maintenance and training services, as key sub-contractors. Thales Australia has received a fiveyear contract from Boeing Defence Australia to provide through life maintenance and engineering support. “Boeing Defence Australia is responsible for training the students in non-tactical areas across all aircraft mission systems, including data links, communications systems and the Multirole Electronically Scanned Array (MESA) radar, to ensure they graduate with the necessary skills,” said Todd Barker, Wedgetail AEW&C mission crew lead instructor and course director for Boeing Defence Australia. Pilot training is also conducted at RAAF Base Williamtown using the Wedgetail Operational Flight Trainer (OFT), developed under an earlier contract by Thales (Booth 1401) in Australia and the UK. The Thales-designed and built, motion-based OFT, which was delivered in 2006, provides realistic and high-quality simulated flight crew operations, and is the sole Wedgetail pilot training device for the RAAF. Known as ‘zero flight time pilot training’, the OFT provides the ability to graduate Wedgetail pilots with 100% of their type conversion training completed on the simulator. Boeing Australia told the Show Daily that six pilots have been trained to date under the Wedgetail AEW&C System Acquisition contract.
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Continuing Education Units Will Be Available Three Ways at I/ITSEC 2010 Attendees have three different methods of earning Continuing Education Units (CEUs) during and immediately after I/ITSEC 2010. CEU options include: yesterday’s tutorials, selected Tuesday – Thursday papers; and a post-conference professional development workshop to be held on Friday, 3 December. “The CEUs provide a lot of value,” observes Maria Cherjovsky, Director of Continuing Education at the University of Central Florida (UCF). “A lot of professions require that people have a certain number of Continuing Education Units per year. But, because of budget cuts, a lot of people look to conferences to provide those CEUs.” “Among the things we do is support conferences from an event planning standpoint or we can provide them with a venue through which they can certify certain training activities so they can have a quantifiable unit of value that is recognized by corporations and employers,” she says. “And for those individuals this is one conference that is often overlooked, with people realizing the opportunity only after the fact.” For the last half dozen years UCF has been coordinating the CEU process for I/ITSEC. Cherjovsky works with the different speakers, chairs and tracks in helping them determine what would qualify as a CEU-eligible paper. “Really we have been doing more quality control processes,” she said. “And that has led to a number of this year’s papers – identified in the agenda by a small book symbol label – that will provide Continuing Education Units for those who need them. Right now all of the Monday sessions, which are the tutorials, qualify for CEUs, as well as roughly 46 papers that have the highest quality, having been reviewed by their peers and by committee.” All paid conference attendees seeking CEUs can register through Thursday afternoon at no additional cost. Cherjovsky says that CEU registration can be done on the conference website in conjunction with conference registration or after the fact. “If they would prefer to register in person they can go to any of
Play the Game! The Serious Games & Showcase Challenge (Booth 485) opened voting booths for ‘People’s Choice’ award on Monday when the I/ITSEC exhibit hall opened. The games this year are challenging and entertaining, with game themes ranging from marketing, medical, and educational, to cyber and border security. There are twelve finalist candidates from industry, students and government. Showcase organizers stated this year’s submissions were up by over 30% and the quality of the games demonstrated significant improvement over past competitions. Voting continues until the show floor closes on Wednesday at 1800. The ballot boxes are located in the booth. Have fun! You decide. 22
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the registration tables and ask to have it added there. They can do it at the self-registration tables throughout the floor. And there is also a CEU booth on the third floor where there will be someone who can help them throughout the week.” “We will provide them with a login and a password that they will use to enter the university system – a website set up specifically for them – through which they will be able to take a test. Upon completion of that test we will issue CEUs. The formula we use is that 10 contact hours equals one CEU and we will be issuing fractions. So, depending on how many sessions they attend and how many tests they successfully complete, they will be able to earn some number of CEUs that will then result in a transcript from the university that can be provided to their employer or anybody else who might require them,” she said.
USJFCOM Builds On Special Event Success Recognizing the positive response to their special event at I/ITSEC 2009, titled “Enabling Distributed Operations in Irregular Warfare,” Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) will be hosting “Enabling Ground Combat Units for Distributed Joint Operations” on Tuesday, 30 November, 1400-1500 (Room S320GH). According to JFCOM representatives, the next quarter century will challenge US joint forces with increasingly complex environments in an era of continued unpredictability. It is JFCOM’s responsibility to develop concepts and integrate warfighting capabilities by providing joint training for the Combatant Commanders who will operate in those continuously changing conditions. During this year’s special event, Moderator Jay Reist, Operational Manager for Future Immersive Training Environment/Joint Capability Technology Demonstration, will present a panel focusing on the continuous need to develop training tools in support of joint distributed operations conducted by ground units. Panelist Clarke Lethin, from Office of Naval Research, will address the success of the Future Immersive Training Environment, Spirals 1 and 2, and the program’s future technology needs. Greg Williams, who was highly decorated as an undercover officer, will describe his experiences as an instructor in combat profiling and enhanced observation, discussing the value of embedding those concepts into ground unit training. The final two panel members, Lieutenant Colonel Louis Zeisman, US Army, and Msgt Dave Lind, United States Marine Corps (Ret), will speak about their recent experiences in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, as well as the need to incorporate resiliency in military training.
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