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The US Air Force is continuing to grapple with how it plans for futurepotential conflicts while continuing to train for today’s fight. One of themain priorities is to further integrate live, virtual and constructive(LVC) training into a seamless spectrum that will give the Service allthe training options it needs.

“In the most strategic sense we have a dynamic going on wherewe have been constantly at war for over twenty years andparticularly in the last ten years. The majority of our opera-tions and a significant part of our training has been focusedon a relatively narrow spectrum of our capabilities,” MajGen Brett T. Williams, Director of Operations, Deputy Chiefof Staff for Operations, Plans and Requirements,Headquarters USAF, told the Show Daily.

“So especially in the last 10 years many of our units, and Iwould include air, space and cyber, have been focused veryintently on the fight in Iraq and Afghanistan,” he continued.“As we look over the next couple of years to move out of those partic-ular environments then we have to understand how much of a fullspectrum capability we need to train to.”

Understanding what those capabilities are and how to train forthem will be the challenge for the Air Force in the next five years,according to Williams. One thing he is certain of, though, is that theService will need to be able to continue to “reach out and touch anypoint on the earth.”

The Air Force believes that live, virtual and constructive elements

will all play a part in training for that future. What Williams wants toensure is that the balance of those activities is correct and that willneed metrics that the USAF is only now starting to gather.

“Step one is to define ‘ready for what?’ What is the strategic intentat the national level and what do we need to be prepared for?Throughout history we have invariably not predicted very well what

the next fight will look like so we have to maintain a spectrum ofcapability,” he suggested.

“Although there is the promise that it can be less expensive to dothings in the virtual and constructive environment that is not alwaysthe case,” Williams stated.

Understanding the underlying metrics and when best to use eachof the three categories of LVC is a challenge for the entire Air Force,

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but it is one that the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in partic-ular has taken up with a number of initiatives. Two recent examplesare the LVC Sensor Integration and Data Fusion for Operations andTraining project and the LVC Pilot Program (LVC PP).

The former is a three year effort providing research into the appli-cation of ad-hoc sensors, mobile devices, trustworthiness, gamingsystems and human interface technologies for C2 to demonstratetheir applicability in an LVC simulation environment. “We’re looking atlow-cost ad-hoc technologies that can be used for LVC in emergencyresponse training,” explained Dr Winston Bennett, Technical Advisor,Continuous Learning and Performance Assessment Research,Warfighter Readiness Division at the AFRL’s 711 HumanPerformance Wing, Human Effectiveness Directorate.

“For the virtual element we are using the Cry Engine to build the‘Calamityville’ virtual environment. As well as putting the first respon-ders, fire engines etc. into the environment we are trying to takevideo feeds out of the virtual environment and plug that in to our sensor grids,” Capt Jeffrey L. Falkinburg, the Program Manager forthe effort continued.

The objective of the project is to look at low-cost ways of providingLVC training for Air Force personnel, but also for other organizationsthat the Service has to interact with, such as first responders. “Weunderstand that these types of organizations don’t have the kind ofmoney to spend on LVC that the Air Force does, but we want to beable to train and operate with them seamlessly,’ Falkinburg added.

LVC PP recently finished its Phase 1 execution and is a programaimed at integrating commercial off the shelf and government devel-oped virtual and constructive technologies and integrating them withlive elements. In the case of the Phase 1 activity, the live elementwas provided by two F-15E Strike Eagles from Nellis Air Force Base,NV. According to Program Manager Kristen M. Barrerra, a secondphase to be completed next year will expand the envelope of the tri-als and see the Air Force joined by the US Navy in the effort.

“The challenge is how do we get back to having the right amountof training and readiness across the full spectrum of capability forthe Air Force,” Williams concluded. “As a result, for two reasons wesee LVC as important – the first is because of resources and, sec-ond, there are things that can only be trained to in a virtual and constructive environment.”

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This year’s General/Flag Officer Panel gave senior representa-tives from the Department of Defense and each of the services

an opportunity to address the I/ITSEC 2011 theme, “Prepare theForce; Secure the Future”.

The panel included: Dr Laura J. Junor, Deputy Assistant Secretaryfor Defense for Readiness; RDML Randloph L Mahr, USN,Commander, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, andAssistant Commander for Research and Engineering, Naval AirSystems Command; MajGen Raymond C. Fox, USMC, CommandingGeneral, Training and Education Command; Maj Gen Brett T.Williams, Director of Operations, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations,Plans and Requirements, Headquarters, USAF; MG Frederick S.Rudesheim, USA, Deputy Director, Joint Staff, J7, Joint and CoalitionWarfighting; MG Nick Justice, USA, Commanding General, AberdeenProving Ground and the US Army Research, Development andEngineering Command; and, RADM Stephen E. Mehling, USCG,Commander of the Coast Guard Force Readiness Command.

Initiating the discussion, Junor identified four challenges for the

future. The first is the climate of fiscal uncertainty – although shepointed out that there can be certainty that it will be bad. The sec-ond is the need to capture and archive the operational experienceof the past 10 years so that this can be leveraged to prepare andrespond to future conflicts. The third is the generations-old chal-lenge of preparing for the uncertain shape of future conflicts. Thefourth is the need for the DoD and the armed services to becomebetter at working with foreign and domestic partners. She said thata major part of the solution to these challenges is developing adapt-ability not just in institutions but in individuals.

The theme of achieving better value for money within smallerbudgets was echoed by all speakers. Justice observed that theM&S industry “may be a better placed technology sector to getthrough a period of budget constraints than other defense business sectors.”

“We know simulation reduces O&M costs as seen in ground vehi-cle and flight trainers,” said Justice. “The same can be true forsmall unit training.” As part of the Army’s efforts to improve thecombat effectiveness of its infantry squads, the service is seekingto ‘unburden the soldier’. This does not just mean reducing thephysical load carried by the soldier, but using technology in trainingand on operations to reduce the mental burden and the pressure

of time. The Army will be investing in virtual worlds and virtualhumans to facilitate such training. He also noted the value to begained in recording operations so that the data can be used to gen-erate future training events.

Williams said the services “must focus on the things that providethe right training to improve readiness” although he noted thatthere are many different views as to the meaning of readiness. Thequestion for the services must be: “Where do we put the next dol-lar to maintain readiness.” All services will become smaller, but it isimportant for them to avoid becoming a ‘hollow force’. For the AirForce this means being able to do all the missions that it is taskedto do. He focused on three training venues that the service is seek-ing to improve: Exercise ‘Red Flag’; Exercise ‘Virtual Flag’; and, theUS Cyber Command’s Exercise ‘Cyber Flag’. In each area the serv-ice “must focus narrowly on those things that provide the mostcapability from the investment”.

Although the Joint Forces Command was disestablished on 31August 2011 as an economy measure, its mandate to prepare for

joint and coalition warfighting has been shifted to an expanded JointStaff. Rudesheim stated that the emphasis upon coalition partnersis important both for shaping training and the execution of future operations.

Mahr noted that “time is not free” so it is important than themost efficient use be made of training time and resources. A sortiein an F/A-18 fighter costs $30,000, yet less than $100 for a sor-tie in an F/A-18 simulator. He observed that industry shouldremember that what may be an effective solution for one servicemay not work with another service for a variety of reasons.

Mehling said the Coast Guard is “always ready but the question isare we always efficient?” He cited the example of the HC-144AOcean Sentry maritime patrol aircraft where the service procuredthe aircraft before any simulators; having to devote aircraft to train-ing has not been cost efficient. He noted that the service’s multimil-lion dollar investment in weapon simulators for its special opera-tions personnel had paid for itself in the first year through ammuni-tion savings. Weapon training for new recruits for the Coast Guardis now entirely based on simulation.

In response to a question, Fox noted it is necessary to get beyond service parochialism to ensure cost effectiveness and better preparedness.

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Military Keynote Ties Army Future to TrainingIn his I/ITSEC 2011 Service Keynote address, LTG Keith C. Walker,US Army Training and Doctrine Command Deputy CommandingGeneral, Futures, and Director, Army Capabilities Integration Center,acknowledged the potential for introducing new training technologieswithin the Army “modernization” framework.

“With regard to training, we have been focused hard – and cor-rectly so – on the warfight,” Walker reiterated to the Show Daily.“Much of the effort has been to get rapid acquisition items into thehands of our soldiers. And the two biggest examples are what wehave done for counter-IED systems and what we have done forunmanned air systems. We have done a lot of other stuff but forthe ground combat soldier those are the two big ones that havehad tremendous benefit.”

“Now we have certainly trained,” he added. “But we haven’ttrained like we used to. We have trained over the last 10 yearsbecause a unit would get orders – knowing it was going to Iraq orAfghanistan – and train specifically for that mission. And withARFORGEN [Army Forces Generation] it was a rapid turn. It’sbacked off a bit now but we went through a period of years wherean Army Brigade Combat Team would be deployed for a year, beback a year, and turn right around and deploy again. So that pre-cious time of resetting and retraining was very, very focused,whereas, when we trained before it was much broader, more delib-erate, and less focused on one particular mission.”

Against that backdrop, Walker predicted a future holding “declin-ing resources; not having an Afghanistan and Iraq focus – in fact, Ibelieve the region of growing importance in the world dynamic isthe Pacific; and the increasing importance of cyber.”

“And here come all of our Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmenhome,” he said. “And training will be more important in the schemeof what our Army will do here. Because in that future environmentour Army has got to be prepared to respond to whatever the nationcalls on it to do. And we don’t know what that is going to be. If wetried to predict we know we’d be wrong. Therefore we need to re-energize our training piece. And my message for this audience isthat simulations and virtual training will be huge.”

Walker sees enormous potential benefits from building that train-ing future on the foundation built over the past two years in evolving

Army modernization activities taking place at Ft. Bliss, TX, wherethe Army’s 2nd Brigade/1st Armored Division is conducting semi-annual brigade-sized field events dubbed Network IntegrationEvaluations.

“Based on what we have learned at Ft. Bliss and how we haveevolved in evaluating capabilities, we realize that you can ‘takethings and try them out,’ which leads to developing potential muchfaster,” he said. “In fact, the faster you give it to a Soldier, along

with the guy who made it and the Army training and materiel devel-opers, the faster you will propel a great idea forward or kill off astupid idea.”

“On the training side there are opportunities there,” he contin-ued. “The big opportunity focuses on the view that ‘training is anoth-er capability’. So, what if we used that brigade to be the evaluatorof new training initiatives that industry can bring to the forefront?Some of them may be programs of record. But in the same way wetalk about network stuff, technology changes so fast that there’ssome stuff that we could try out.”

“The most important thing is that we need to keep our focus onthe squad,” he concluded. “We need to look for opportunities tobuild ‘squad overmatch’. So that we never have a fair fight.”

“The most importantthing is that we need tokeep our focus on thesquad...we need to lookfor opportunities tobuild ‘squad overmatch’.So that we never havea fair fight.”

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This year’s I/ITSEC industry keynote presenter was LeAnnRidgeway, who recently took over as Vice President & GeneralManager, Simulation & Training Solutions, at Rockwell Collins.Ridgeway spoke exclusively to the Show Daily about her speechand her initial impressions of the modeling and simulation (M&S) industry.

“With the theme of ‘Preparing the Force, Securing the Future,’ I tried to really look at what the three upcoming challenges are forour industry,” Ridgeway stated. “The three themes I talked aboutthis morning [Tuesday] were primarily, number one, being able toharness all that real life information coming back from our troopstoday and being able to turn that in to the real time adaptive train-ing scenarios that we need for today’s combat and for future situations.”

“The second critical challenge is with training stress and strainfrom the perpetual training cycle we are currently in. It is causingstresses on our training infrastructure, so we have to figure outways to help the changing infrastructure.”

On that theme, Ridgeway elaborated on the need to look at waysto evolve the current training infrastructure while at the same timerecognizing the need to tie in to legacy systems. She stated thatthe military did not necessarily want to always replace systems with

new technology and allthe “latest bells andwhistles” and that therewas a need for “bridgetechnologies”.

“The third challenge isultimately what everyoneis talking about, whichis the pretty significantbudget constraints thatwe are facing. So howdo we operate goingforward with thosekinds of challenges?”Ridgeway surmised.

The experience thatRockwell Collins candraw upon in facingthat challenge, accord-ing to Ridgeway,involves the significantdownturns it has facedin the commercial avia-tion sector in recentyears. “We have theexperience of how weadapted and reacted and I’d say we were able to successfully navi-gate through those periods,” she stated.

The company got its start in the M&S sector through somesmart product acquisitions. However, Ridgeway said that the natureof what the company could bring to the user had changed and thatthe emphasis was on how to integrate the various systems to pro-vide a full service capability. “We have a level of concurrency in thesector that is unparalleled,’ she added. “We will continue to beinnovative, but also to recognize some of the restraints.”

Turning to the wider M&S sector, Ridgeway said she wasimpressed with the pace of innovation and development. “It proba-bly has made the greatest advances over the shortest period oftime,” she stated. “I think we obviously get some synergies fromthe adjacent technology market with games and the entertainmentindustry and the M&S community is able to capitalize on advancesin those industries.”

However, Ridgeway was also aware of the complexity that under-lies some of the technologies.

“My real perception is that it is much more complicated than itlooks on the surface. If you compare it to the games industry youmight be lulled into thinking that it is simple and for fun, but whenyou look at it more deeply you realize that – for one – we areabsolutely responsible for training the warfighter and having missionready troops to defend us. Secondly, you have to look at the adapt-ability that is needed to change how people are learning today,” she concluded.

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CAE Healthcare (Booth 1735) will be demonstrating for the first timeat I/ITSEC the CAE Caesar, which it describes as “the most realisticand physiologically advanced trauma patient simulator now available”.

CAE Caesar can be used for practicing the basic first aid skillstaught to every soldier to the more advanced skills of medics and

other medical personnel.Rugged, durable and water-resistant, the simulator is theonly full-bodied trauma patientsimulator that can be used out-side the classroom in differenttypes of terrain, climates andother challenging elements thatconfront soldiers in the field.

CAE Healthcare, a division ofCAE, acquired Medical EducationTechnologies (METI), a world-

wide leader in medical simulation technologies and educational soft-ware in August 2011 for $130 million. The METI family of simula-tors, including baby, pediatric and adult units, are designed to mimichuman medical scenarios including trauma, heart attack, drug over-dose and the effects of bioterrorism. Approximately 6,000 METIsimulators are used in 40 countries.

In July the Chilean Navy conducted a seven-day Combat CasualtyCare Course for 155 students from eight Latin American countries

and Spain. The course was organized with the cooperation of theUS Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute at Ft. SamHouston, TX, and was the first course of its type in South Americato incorporate simulation training. Adding realism to the coursewere three types of METI patient simulators, the iStan, the ESCand the METIman.

The CAE Caesar, launched earlier this year, is the company’s firstsimulator developed specifically for the military market. It auto-nomously generates a wide range of physiological responses totraumatic injuries and treatment. The manikin, which represents a6ft, 175lb soldier, features complete articulation of joints andspine, realistic tactile look and skin texture, realistic eye representa-tion, and a realistic airway from the oral and nasal passages to theesophagus. Healthy limbs can be replaced with a wide range ofsimulated injuries including blast, burn and gunshot wounds. TheCAE Caesar is wirelessly controlled by an instructor using a touch-based portable remote tablet PC. The simulator runs up to fourhours on a single fully-charged battery.

As soldiers work through various scenarios, they can receivevaluable and continuous feedback that details the ‘casualty’s’ vitalsigns, treatments provided and verbal cues that can range fromlucid to anxiety-filled responses. If the medic’s interventions are cor-rect, CAE Caesar’s condition will stabilize or improve.

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Scalable Network Technologies (Booth 2953) is continuing to makestrides in cyberwarfare training and sees it as an important futuredevelopment for the industry, Tim Lee-Thorp, Acting Vice President ofMarketing, told the Show Daily.

“Our core business has been traditional network simulation, testand training around battlefield operations. We’ve been doing that foryears, but our strategic direction going forward is cyberwarfare train-

ing,’ Lee-Thorp stated.“That is where the majority

of our new research andongoing development isfocused because we see it asthe biggest market, thebiggest demand, for us overthe next two or three years.The primary focus of Scalableright now is to becomeextremely good at cyberwar-

fare training and then extending that out in to the planning, analysisand testing functions that we are known for,” he continued.

The company has had initial success already and earlier this monthwas able to announce a contract with US Strategic Command(STRATCOM). Under the contract, Scalable Network Technologies willbe responsible for delivering products and services to support cyberwarrior training requirements. The main deliverables of the contractinvolve adaptations to the company’s EXata/Cyber network simulationplatform to meet STRATCOM’s specific objectives for development ofcyber warfare training systems.

According to the company, the EXata/Cyber simulation engineallows users to create highly realistic “virtual” models of actual orplanned communication networks in software. These “software virtualnetworks” can scale to thousands of simulated nodes and intercon-

nect with live networks, providing an accurate laboratory environmentfor trainees to identify weaknesses, assess impacts, thwart threatsand plan retaliation options.

Users receive comprehensive experience in the protection of net-works against cyber attacks. EXata/Cyber deployments are capableof modeling both wired and wireless environments, and can be inte-grated with other simulators to enable assessment of overall missioneffects of cyber warfare.

“Advanced simulation technology is an ideal answer to the urgentneed for a dynamic, realistic and affordable cyber training environ-ment. As we demonstrate how powerful these flexible, scalable soft-ware networks are for addressing cyber readiness gaps, we are see-ing excitement grow with stakeholders in both the defense and com-mercial communities,’ Rajive Bagrodia, CTO and founder of the com-pany, stated.

Looking beyond the STRATCOM contract, Lee-Thorpe continued,“when people first get involved in trying to understand what cyberwar-fare is about and what the threats are, what they are looking at issome sort of IT network – so the internet plus whatever private com-ponents there are. It is easy to build the basic network map, but thenwhen you are trying to understand the security dynamics getting theaccuracy and precision on each individual device is difficult.”

Accurately portraying that type of complex network for trainingpurposes is difficult. However, for Scalable Network Technologiesthat type of network simulation has been a major part of its activi-ties in recent years and an extension into the training space is a log-ical progression.

“We have been spending the majority of our research time gettingthe precision and the understanding of how these networks work.We can develop that into high definition models that can output highly realistic scenarios when coupled with simulators,” Lee-Thorpe explained.

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Night Readiness (Booth 2935) is exhibitingthe latest version of its Virtual TerrainBoard (VTB) Training System at I/ITSEC.VTB is a turn-key NVG classroom “stimula-tion” training system that allows users toview environments with actual NVG’s for atrue goggle scene.

The latest version of VTB has specificallybeen designed to include ground level forcesas an addition to the latest VTB 3.0 sup-porting the aviation community. The VTBGround Stimulation Training System offersthe same high fidelity capabilities as theVTB 3.0 Aviation System to include groundlevel scenarios, high resolution databasesthat specifically support ground forces andtheir unique training requirements.

“Our training curriculum is designed toteach users the capabilities, limitations, mis-

perceptions and other anomaliesassociated with NVG usage, butin a classroom setting. The VTBprovides a ‘hands-on’, immersiveclassroom environment with asmall footprint, high resolutiondigital projection system driven bymulti spectral, physics baseddatabases. Our training curricu-lum supports all US militarybranches’ training programs,international military training programs, as well as law enforcement and other parapublic users,” Stephen Hatley, NightReadiness’ President told the Show Daily.

This VTB ground system is also offeredas a low cost, secure classroom trainingenvironment with real world physics based databases. It has been developed

specifically by and for ground forces to sup-port their “on the ground” perspectives andinteractive mission critical training needs.While supporting all US and internationalmilitary branches, the VTB ground systemalso supports the parapublic sector such as law enforcement, and search and rescue units.

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Warfighters’ Corner is always a popular event at I/ITSEC, providingan opportunity for servicemen and women to share with industryrepresentatives and other attendees their experiences inAfghanistan, Iraq and other Overseas Contingency Operations.Speakers discuss how their training prepared them for operationsand the valuable lessons learned. A new feature this year is theinclusion of a representative from the US Coast Guard each day.

The speakers at Wednesday’s session, which will last from 1030-1200 at Booth 3181, are:

US Navy LCdr James A. Hayes is currently the Executive Officer atthe Navy Operational Support Center Orlando. From April to October2005, LCdr Hayes was assigned to the Naval Special Warfare TaskGroup - Arabian Penninsula, where he molded 11 Naval SpecialWarfare platoons, three US Army companies, and more than 50joint headquarters personnel into an effective 550 man Task Unit.

US Air Force M Sgt Kevin Butler has completed six deploymentsin support of Operations New Dawn, Iraqi Freedom, and EnduringFreedom between 2006 and 2011, serving as a C-17 loadmaster.During his most recent deployment, M Sgt Butler served as the385 AEG Detachment One first Sergeant, and Superintendent. Healso created training programs for over 50 loadmasters, 50 aerialport personnel, and Department of Defense contractors providing

over 300 hours of instruction resulting in zero aircraft/cargomishaps and enabling instant familiarity with nonstandard, outsized,heavy equipment; a reduction in cargo loading times by 75%; andensuring cargo download capability at the destination.

US Coast Guard LCdr Dion Nicely currently serves asCommanding Officer of Coast Guard Cutter (CGC) Robert Yered(WPC 1104), the newest class of cutters in the Coast Guard’sfleet. LCdr Nicely served with Coast Guard Patrol Forces SouthwestAsia, which were deployed to the Persian Gulf beginning in 2003 byrequest of US Central Command.

US Army Capt Bryan W. Morgan is the operations officer of the 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Capt Morgan wasdeployed on Operation Iraqi Freedom III, V and VIII. During his lastdeployment he commanded a company stationed in Ramadi, Iraqwhere it conducted advise and assist operations with the Iraqi LocalPolice, Army and National Police units in the city.

US Marine Corps Maj Barron Mills, an infantry officer, now servesas Deputy APM, Collective Training Systems, PM TRASYS. Hedeployed to Afghanistan with Regimental Combat Team - 2 fromFebruary 2010 to February 2011. Having previously served as aBattalion Military Training Team Leader in Iraq, he initially assumedthe role as Afghan National Security Forces Coordinator.

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In her initial glimpse at I/ITSEC 2011, Dr Mary Patterson is clearlyimpressed by the growing synergies of modeling and simulationacross multiple industries and domains.

As the immediate past president for the Society for Simulation inHealthcare (Booth 3352), Patterson described the internationalorganization as “comprised of professionals who are involved in allaspects of simulation and modeling across healthcare. That

includes manikin-based simulators. It includes laparoscopic simula-tors or procedural simulators with haptic feedback. It includes table-top simulation. It includes standardized patients – individuals whoare trained to essentially behave as patients with certain kinds of ill-nesses or certain kinds of conditions.”

“In addition to the computer based systems we also encompassthe static task trainers as well,” she said. “So it not only encom-passes all types of simulation but we are also broadening the scopeof what that includes. But our common objective is to improve

healthcare and safety using simulation techniques and tools.”The organization celebrated its tenth anniversary last year.“This is my first time at I/ITSEC, and it is an extraordinarily

impressive meeting,” Patterson said. “What I see as I walk aroundis an amazing amount of technology. And I look at that and think,‘How could we incorporate those not only for the Department ofDefense and related industries but also in the healthcare domain toimprove patient safety?’”

“There’s an incredible amount of virtual reality,” she continued.“And one of the things we see in healthcare now is that clinicalopportunities – opportunities to actually touch patients – aredecreasing. And our goal, of course, is to move the dangerous partof the healthcare experience away from the patient. And thatincludes the training part. So I particularly look at technologiesinvolving haptic feedback, involving ways to actually track motion,and I see ways that we could substantially improve training forhealthcare providers, particularly around complex and high techprocedures. I also look at some of the technologies involving situa-tional awareness, which of course is a huge problem for all of us inhigh risk organizations and high risk industries. And I think aboutways that we could use these technologies to create both the situa-tions and the training feedback to create great synergy acrosshealthcare as well.”

Another first time exhibitor at I/ITSEC2011 is Kognito Interactive (Booth 721).According to company co-founder and CEORon Goldman, the company develops virtualrole play conversations to help people learnhow to manage difficult interactions.

“You enter the environment and you talkwith intelligent avatars,” he explained.“Those can be anything from a veteranexhibiting PTSD to a ‘battle buddy’ who isgoing through a rough time or anyone withwhom you need communicate that is show-ing resistance.”

Over the last five years, Kognito hasapplied its technologies to the creation ofmultiple products for a variety of militaryand medical entities.

“Specifically we are here at I/ITSEC 2011to show a project we did for theDepartment of Veterans Affairs that iscalled ‘Family of Heroes,’” he said. “It isdesigned to train families, friends and part-ners of veterans how to best determine ifthey are showing signs of PTSD or post-deployment stress and then to actually talkto them about their concern and refer themto the VA. So it is a combination of resil-iency training and connecting veterans at

need with the resources thatcan help them.”

The environment teachesparticipants how to manage theconversation with a veteran.

“The beauty here is that thisavatar has its own personalityand emotional state,” Goldmansaid. “So as you start talking tothem, their response willdepend on the tactic you take.If you are being very aggressiveor judgmental, they will act one way. On theother hand, if you talk about things you haveobserved, they will react in an entirely differ-ent way. So you and I and everyone else inthis room can have a completely differentexperience with this avatar – because of thepath that we take. As part of that we teachthe underlying tactics that will work and willnot work in a conversation like that.”

The company has worked on the projectwith the VA in the New York/New Jerseyarea, as well as with the National Centerfor PTSD, to develop the training, which isnow freely available to all families of the onemillion veterans in the New York/NewJersey region.

“It was launched on Veterans Day this yearand there are already over 50,000 peoplewho have accessed the training and taken itonline since then,” he noted. “So this is reallya very large public health initiative in theregion that the VA is doing to connect withfamilies and to have the families get more ofthe veterans who are at need to come to theVA, because statistics show that only half ofthe veterans who are experiencing PTSD orpost-deployment stress actually come to theVA. So you have a lot of them who are outthere and need help, but are not getting thehelp that they need. And that has an impacton everything from employment to marriedlife to other personal issues.”

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“What I see as I walk around is an amazing amount oftechnology. And I look at that and think, ‘How couldwe incorporate those not only for the Department ofDefense and related industries but also in the health-care domain to improve patient safety?’”

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discrepancies in features, elevations, and terrains usingadvanced, graphics processing unit technology. It can verify data-base correlation in minutes versus days and weeks associatedwith legacy human-in-the-loop validation techniques.

Cybernet IA Management System A Lock for Top SecurityCybernet Systems (Booth 1280) has developed an InformationAssurance Management System (IAMS) that is the most robust,cost-saving IA maintenance tool available. IAMS is a mountableserver that can be configured for small or large information sys-tems, and provides a centralized IA solution. The Navy and theMarine Corps are already deploying IAMS on multiple trainingsystems, netting successful results.

IAMS is compatible with all operating systems and is easilyupgraded to meet a company’s ever-changing needs. The tasksthat IAMS centralizes are: IA patch management, audit manage-ment, HBSS management, data integrity management and top ofthe line storage, made easy by a ‘grab and go’ external drivesolution. IAMS sets the standard in data protection via a service-oriented, net-centric system that provides superior service withpractical pricing.

CTI Develops Call for Fire Trainer – Augmented Virtuality

Creative Technologies (CTI) (Booth 3115 with Team Keybridge)has developed a Joint Fires and Effects Trainer System (JFETS)Close Air Support module capability into a footprint that fits in aclassroom, at a fraction of the cost of the JFETS dome. The‘cube’ is packed with military equipment, not virtual representa-tions, that can be held and operated, including surrogates forthe M4 Carbine, the Infrared Zoom Laser Illuminator Designator,the M2 Compass, the lensatic compass, M22 binoculars, theViper 21 laser rangefinder, the Ground Laser Target DesignatorII, along with a tactical map board and a Toughbook laptop.

The CFFT-AV was developed with the Army Research Lab’sSimulation and Training Technology Center (ARL STTC) and Ft.Sill’s Fires Center of Excellence (FCoE), and installed for service,at a Technology Readiness Level of 7, at the Field Artillery (FA)School, Ft. Sill, OK, in August 2011, less than 11 months fromthe project start in October 2010.

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ZelTech Delivers Its First Training Device to US Army

Zel Technologies (ZelTech) Training and Simulation (Booth 621)has announced the delivery of its first training device to the USArmy, the Strobe and MILES (SAM), a rugged, compact, self-contained MILES emitter device with strobe capabilities.

Company representatives told the Show Daily that the rapiddelivery of the SAM emphasizes some of the achievement goalsof ZelTech’s new Live Training and Simulation group - to deliverinnovative products quickly. The group delivered the SAM devicewithin two months of receiving the contract. This responsivenessenables warfighters to get the critical training they need faster.The group specializes in delivering robust, reliable, and realistictraining systems to the military and industry partners, and indoing so quickly and efficiently.

The SAM device is a solid-state 360 degree white strobe,designed to flash during the emission to provide a “scintillation”effect. The MILES emitters can be configured to cover 90º,180º or a full 360º horizontal coverage and a 25º vertical cover-age at a range of 30m. The unit can be configured to provide different MILES outputs. The SAM has multiple configurationoptions, is easy to set up, and requires no external computerinterface or other devices.

SAIC launches Cloud Simulation Infrastructure

SAIC (Booth 1066) is launching cloud simulation infrastructure(CSI), an enabling cloud-based technology, to deliver complex sim-ulation infrastructure on demand. CSI provides critical simulationinfrastructure components and resources in a cloud-based com-mon environment to provide easy, on demand access to modelingand simulation, and to support large scale training, experimenta-tion and exercises anytime, anywhere in the world. SAIC alsochose I/ITSEC to launch its lightbox, a technology that acceler-ates and improves the validation and quality of correlated environ-mental databases. Lightbox automatically tests, verifies and vali-dates the correlation between two or more large scale geospatialterrain databases of the same region of the world. LightBoxsimultaneously ingests multiple output formats and performs aseries of high speed, automated tests to verify and detect

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Raydon (Booth 1048) is exhibiting the latest addition to its family ofIndividual Gunnery Trainer (IGT) systems at I/ITSEC 2011.

The IGT trains and sustains individual gunnery skills for employingthe 5.56mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, the 7.62mmM240B medium machine gun and the .50 cal M2 heavy machinegun mounted on the unstabilized gunner’s position of a wide varietyof wheeled and tracked vehicles. The latest addition is an IGT forthe widely employed 40mm MK-19 automatic grenade launcher.

Gregory Recker, Raydon’s Vice President for BusinessDevelopment, told the Show Daily that the IGT represents a mobileand cost effective training solution. As 40mm training rounds costapproximately $24 each, the use of the MK-19 IGT before live firetraining would save enough ammunition to pay for the trainer sever-al times over.

The developmentof the MK-19 IGT,which is now at theprototype stage andis scheduled to beready for delivery inJuly 2012, hasbeen entirely compa-ny funded. It followsthe training guide-

lines established in the USArmy’s Heavy Brigade CombatTeam Gunnery Manual andConvoy Protection PlatformGunnery Manual, and, like theother IGT models allows gunners to practice the DIDEA – targetdetection, identification, decide, engage, and assess – process.The system does not require an instructor or operator, but asRecker pointed out, the synthetic coach “is like having an NCO overthe shoulder of the trainee”. The curriculum is driven by thetrainee’s progress and the embedded Training Management Systemproduces training records that commanders can use to developfuture training plans.

A stand alone IGT is delivered in three transit cases and can beassembled ready for use in about 15-20 minutes. Each systemincludes a gunner’s station with simulated weapon, a head-mounteddisplay, and headphones with microphone which enable the gunnerto interact with a virtual gunner and driver.

Raydon is also demonstrating a complete IGT training suiteinstalled in a 53ft trailer; it is equipped with eight .50 cal IGT posi-tions for gunners and an instructor operator station with afteraction review capability. Raydon Training Service will deliver, operateand maintain the trailer and, with no additional cost to the cus-tomer, Raydon can install the MK-19 IGT when it enters production.

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Aircraft Marshalling Virtual TrainerDeveloper: Heartwood/AtlantisSystems Eduplus

Air Medic Sky OneDeveloper: University MedicalCenter Utrecht

Agent Surefire: Breach BusterDeveloper: MAVI Interactive

First Person Cultural TrainerDeveloper: US Army TRADOC G2Intelligence Support Activity

Electric Power Plant OperatorMaintainer CourseDeveloper: C2 Technologies

Eagle EyeDeveloper: Intific

Plunder!Developer: Full Sail University

Ninja KitchenDeveloper: Media Productions,New Mexico State University

Mobile M.O.U.T.Developer: TBOC SIMS

A SeriousChallengeThe Serious Games Showcase &

Challenge (Booth 3263) cele-

brates innovations in game

design and instructional technolo-

gy. Building from past years’ suc-

cesses, the 2011 Serious Games

Showcase & Challenge will once

again highlight an amazing collec-

tion of cutting-edge serious

games. This year’s challenge

expands its categories, Business,

Government, and Student, to

include Mobile Serious Games.

The best of breed within each of

these four categories, along with

one selected by conference atten-

dees called the People’s Choice,

will be recognized.

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& Challenge cuts across several

domains and focuses on web,

PC, and mobile-deployable games

that cover virtually all application

areas. The challenge for game

developers is to build a game that

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problem and also provides a tech-

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user. Tapping into some of the

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AmbassadorDeveloper: KTM Advance

Bushudo: The Way of the RadicalDeveloper: University ofWisconsin – Madison

ChronopticonDeveloper: BrainPop

Devil’s AdvocateDeveloper: University of CentralFlorida – RETRO Laboratory

FolditDeveloper: Center for GameScience, Department of CSE,University of Washington

Garden DefenseDeveloper: University of CentralFlorida – RETRO Laboratory

Karnaugh’s ConundrumDeveloper: Old Dominion University

MIDDWorld OnlineDeveloper: Muzzy Lane Software

Quality TycoonDeveloper: Northrop Grumman

VirulentDeveloper: Morgridge Institute for Research

vMedicDeveloper: US Army ResearchLaboratory – Simulation &Training Technology Center (STTC)

Vocabulary ChallengeDeveloper: Advanced DistributedLearning Co-Laboratory


Meggitt Training Systems (Booth 1012) is demonstrating its newFATS M100, an early version of the next generation of its weaponssimulation and training systems, at I/ITSEC 2011.

The FATS M100 sys-tem is designed to sup-port multiple, simultane-ous simulation and train-ing modes using a flexi-ble architecture thatallows the easy integra-tion of internally devel-oped and third party sim-ulation, training, andgaming products.

The demonstrationsystem supports training using the industry’s best and largest simu-lation weapons selection. The following training modes are beingdemonstrated: • Traditional computer generated imagery training mode• Marksmanship training mode• Judgmental video training mode• Bohemia Interactive Australia’s VBS2 virtual environment

training mode• Meggitt Training System’s Advanced Reality training mode

According to Meggitt, the FATS M100 Advanced Reality trainingmode is built upon a highly advanced development solution that isused for the creation of blockbuster games, movies, high-qualitysimulations and interactive applications.

The development of the FATS M100 is primarily a company fund-ed initiative although the Australian Department of Defence hasassisted, as the Australian Defence Force is eager to integrateVBS2 into the small arms simulation system that Meggitt previously supplied.

The company’s small arms training systems are used by thearmed forces of Australia, Canada and the UK, the US MarineCorps, and numerous export customers.

On the eve of I/ITSEC, the UK Ministry of Defence issued a $20million contract to modify and upgrade the Dismounted CloseCombat Trainer (DCCT) used by the British Army, Royal Marines,and the Royal Air Force Regiment.

The upgrade will support Future Integrated Soldier Technology(FIST) enhancements, such as small arms sights, now being fielded.The FIST enhancements to 59 of the MoD’s 154 DCCTs include threesimulators: an underslung grenade launcher sight, a thermal sightand a commander’s target locator, for which Meggitt will provideassociated ballistics and round effects for SA80/UGL rifle simulators,modifying them to accommodate new thermal sights. FIST integrationwill be supported by the FATS M100 system architecture.

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THE OFFICIAL DAILY NEWS DIGEST OF I/ITSEC 2011 · 4 NOVEMBER 30 SHOW DAILY This year’s General/Flag Officer Panel gave senior representa- tives from the Department of Defense and