Simulation and Training Technology Center

U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command

*Unclassified – For Public Release - Unlimited*

Simulation and Training Technology Center

25 July 2013

COL Matthew T. Clarke

Commander, STTC of ARL HRED

SFC Paul Ray Smith Simulation & Training Technology Center

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Army S&T Organizations

Materiel

AMC

Personnel

G-1

Medical

MEDCOM

Infrastructure/

Environmental

USACE

Strategic Missile Defense

SMDC ATEC

Test &

Evaluation

ECBCNSRDEC

CERDEC TARDECARDECAMRDEC

Delivers underpinning Science, Technology and Analysis to the Army

Army Research

Institute (ARI)

Medical Research &

Materiel Command

(MRMC)

Training S&T

Human Research & Engineering

Directorate

Simulation & Training Technology

CenterHRED



Simulation and Training

Technology Center (STTC)

Mission

Conduct Simulation & Training Technology Research and Development to Enhance Warfighter

Effectiveness

Vision

The Warfighter’s Center of Innovation for Simulation & Training Technology Research and

Development

•Execute S&T of Simulation and Training Technology

•(6.1 / Basic Research – 6.3 / Advanced Technology Development)

• Provide Program Management for the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), an Army University Affiliated Research Center

• Synchronize / collaborate with academia, customers, industry and labs across the Army, other services and government, and international

• Coordinate and collaborate with key TRADOC Stakeholders

• Transition mature technology to PEO STRI, TRADOC, and Army units

• Support rapid fielding to the Warfighter as needed



Geographic Range

STTC ORLANDO

Institute for Simulation and Training (IST) -UCF

Army Contracting Command

Army Research Institute

Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) -USC

STTC Building

• 100+ Government and Contractor Scientists and Engineers

Tenant Organizations

• Army Research Institute (ARI) Orlando

• Contracting Cell – Army Contracting Command (APG)

Local Area

• IST and other Team Orlando Facilities (e.g. Robotics Lab)

Extended Area

• ICT – Virtual Humans, Graphics, Immersive Technology Research

APGARL



Facilities

~38,000 square feet of reconfigurable laboratories and research areas including:

• Adaptive Tutoring Lab

• Virtual and Augmented Reality Lab

• Gaming Lab

• Laser Research Lab

• Medical Research

• Holographic Research

UCF Foundation Owned, Government Occupied

Unique collaboration focused on research



Simulation and Training S&T Gaps

BE LOW COST AND LOW OVERHEAD

ACCELERATE LEARNING

INCREASE REALISM AND IMMERSION

BE AVAILABLE AT THE POINT OF NEED

To Address the Challenge…

Future Training must:

Training Challenges and Gaps are defined by:

Top Army

Challenges

PEO

Gaps

TRADOC

WFOs

ADAPT TO SOLDIER’S NEEDS

BE EASY TO AUTHOR

1

2

3

4

5

6

MCOE

Gaps



Intelligent and Adaptive Technologies for

TrainingImmersive Learning Synthetic Environments

Advanced Distributed Simulation

• Adaptive Tutors

• Virtual Humans

• Virtual Worlds

• Interface Technologies

• Dynamic/Interactive Effects

• Physics Based Terrain Models

• Simulation Tools / Architecture

• Soldier Centric Learning

• Joint and Coalition Training

• Virtual/Mixed/Augmented Reality • Hybrid laser, sensors

• Predictive technologies

• Human body simulations

Training Application Domains

Dismounted Soldier Live Training Medical Simulation

Technology Investments to Address the Gaps:

S&T Technology Enablers



Simulation and Training Technology Vision

Live/Virtual

Integrating Environment

Today’s Investment

Adaptive TrainingTechnologies

Fully Immersive

At Point of Need

Ubiquitous, Low Overhead,

Individual, and Collective Training

LVC-IA24/7 Mobile

Adaptive

Tutors

Indoors / Outdoors

Haptics

Intelligent

Behaviors

Augmented Reality

Live Training

Capabilities

Live Virtual Constructive

Integrating Architecture

Learning

Methods

Authoring

CapabilityPhysicsBased

Effects

Virtual

Humans

Future CapabilitiesVirtual Worlds

Distributed

Natural

Language

Processing

Integrated

Training

Environment

ITE



Simulation and Training Business Model



STTC Contracting Vehicles

STTC Contracting

Vehicles

BAA

RAOS STES

• Broad Industry and Academia

• S&T Research

• 6.2 / 6.3 dollars

http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=8

• Academia

• S&T Research

• 6.2 / 6.3 dollars

• Small Businesses

• Engineering Services

• All Funding Types

http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=8



STES IDIQ Overview

STTC Simulation and Training Engineering Services (STES) Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract

• $135M, 5 year Multiple Award IDIQ– Total Small Business set-aside as classified by the North American Industry

Classification System (NAICS) • 3 Technical Areas:

• Advanced Simulation Research• Medical Simulation Research• Squad & Small Team Research (SSTR)

Synthetic Environments Dismounted Training Live Training

• Estimated release of draft RFP to FedByzOpps: 4th quarter Fiscal Year 2013• More information in FedBizOpps Search Key: W911QX-13-R-STES• Point of Contact:

• Briann Richardson, Sr. Contracts Specialist, 407-384-3610, [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]



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