Army Looks to Training Center Upgrades

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Army Looks to Training Center Upgrades
The US Army is poised to begin a significant upgrade to the communications systems and digital backbone supporting its Combat Training Center (CTC) complexes at the National Training Center (NTC),
Ft. Irwin, CA, and Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC),
Ft. Polk, LA.
According to Col Vincent Malone, US Army Program Manager
for Training Devices (PM TRADE), the CTC upgrade effort supports
several of the “strategic priorities” recently announced by General
Raymond Odierno, Chief of Staff of the Army (CSoA).
“He identified five strategic priorities,” Malone said. “The CTCs
support many of the priorities but one that he called out specifically
was ‘a ready and modern Army.’”
Malone said that the past 12 years of war had seen a shift in CTC
focus to preparing units for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In most cases, that translated to wide area security missions.
“But what the CSoA is outlining [in his strategic priorities] is a
need to shift the emphasis back to combined arms maneuver as
well as wide area security,” he explained. “And the CTCs have to
evolve to support that, because when we deployed our forces we
realigned our brigade combat teams. We gave them more capability. We made them more robust. And now we’re making a few force
structure changes. We are moving some of the enablers but keeping the brigade combat teams as a very large and powerful forma-
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tion. In fact, we’re giving them a third maneuver battalion. So now
as the CTCs prepare to support decisive action rotations with those
three maneuver battalions ‘in the box,’ that puts increased demands
on their instrumentation system that really require us to modernize
what we’ve got out there.”
PM TRADE looks to its CTC instrumentation as a system of seven
different subsystems, with five of those riding on two primary subsystems: the Range Data Management System and the Range Voice
Communications System.
Collectively known as the Range Communication System (RCS),
those two foundational subsystems are the emphasis of current
Army modernization efforts at the CTCs.
In late 2012, Northrop Grumman Corporation was awarded the
Combat Training Center Instrumentation System RCS (CTC-IS RCS)
project engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) contract.
The project will modernize and replace the legacy RCS voice, video,
data instrumentation, Live Fire (LF) communication subsystems, and
network. The CTC-IS RCS program provides a common architecture,
hardware, and software approach for the communication system for
both the NTC and JRTC utilizing a commercial cellular network. The
program will use the Live Training Transformation (LT2) Consolidated
Product-line Management (CPM) strategy.
“Northrop Grumman’s major subcontractor is AT&T,” Malone
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Marines Test Moving Target Engagements
The US Marine Corps is exploring new ways
to teach Marines to engage moving targets
during combat with the help of T40 robots
from Marathon Targets.
“You don’t get any type of moving target training at [recruit training.] And the enemy is never going to pop up and wait for you to
shoot him,” said USMC Sergeant Phillipi Sanz. “Up until now I have
only shot at a moving target twice.” For some Marines and soldiers
the first time they shoot at a moving target using live ammunition is
during combat.
Marines from The Basic School and the Weapons Training Battalion, and soldiers from the US Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group
(AWG) at Fort Meade, MD, practiced engaging moving targets at
Range 12 at Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA, during a two-week
experiment in September. Marines used three different 5.56mm
weapons – M4 carbine, M16 rifle and the recently fielded HecklerKoch M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle – and engaged the targets from
the standing, kneeling and prone positions. “Our hope is [that],
with this data, we can influence how infantry Marines are trained
to shoot at their targets,” said Captain Benjamin Brewster, project
officer, Marine Corps Warfighing Lab. “The current marksmanship
tables in the annual rifle qualification are completely unrealistic to
train a Marine to shoot a moving target.”
The AWG is also using the Marathon robots to evaluate the
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engagement of moving targets with night vision devices.
Marathon Targets (Booth 2735) was founded in 2007 by Alex
Brooks, Alex Makarenko and Tobias Kaupp, all of whom earned
PhDs from the University of Sydney while working at the Australian
Centre for Field Robotics. Working at the Center, the three collaborated closely with the Australian Defence Force to develop moving
targets to improve marksmanship training.
The result of the development effort was the T20 ‘smart’ target
mounted on a two-wheel Segway Robotic Mobility Platform which has
since been superceded by the T40 mounted on a four-wheel autonomous mobility platform developed by Marathon which is better at
navigating moderately rough terrain. The actual target is a humansized all-aspect 3D mannequin made from durable plastic which will
withstand hundreds of shots before easy replacement, while the
mobility platform is protected by armor plate. The targets use GPS
and a scanning laser rangefinder for navigation, positioning, and
obstacle detection and avoidance.
The targets replicate humans by moving at various speeds and
by turning abruptly. When the mannequin is shot, it tips over at the
waist to indicate a hit. When targets are operating as a group, they
can be programmed to respond by scattering, as civilians are likely
to do, or react as an enemy might do either by moving behind cover
or advancing toward the firer. Stationary or rugged laptop computers can be used to program the targets. “You throw in something
unpredictable and it totally changes the dynamic,” said Alex Brooks,
CEO of Marathon. “Rather than just training moving marksmanship, you’re training judgment, rules of engagement and situational
awareness.”
The Australian Army was the first customer for the T20 target in 2008 and was followed by the AWG, and the USMC, which
purchased targets for evaluation under the auspices of the Foreign
Comparative Test programme administered by the Office of the
Secretary of Defense’s Comparative Testing Office. The USMC subsequently awarded Marathon Targets an indefinite delivery/indefinite
quantity contract, with a potential value of up to $50 million, for the
T40 robot. The first eight robots were delivered in November 2011.
An unspecified NATO country and another in the Middle East
have also bought the T40. The British Army conducted trials of the
target in 2012 and is now developing a requirement for such a
moving target.
Army Looks to Training
said. “And AT&T is going to come in and
modernize the towers at NTC and JRTC by
introducing a commercial 4G LTE – Long
Term Evolution – network in there. So in the
future we are going to be utilizing commercially-based ‘End User Devices,’ that are
basically handheld devices that are almost
exactly like commercial cellphones that are
out there now.”
“It breaks the paradigm of developing
military specific systems and it gets us into
leveraging the commercial technology that’s
out there,” he added. “And what we found is
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that we are able to do that with substantial
cost savings in the developmental phase. It’s
much cheaper to incorporate and integrate
the commercial technologies than it is to
develop a military specific device.”
At the end of October 2013, the CTC-IS
RCS project underwent an Initial Product
Verification Test (IPVT). Conducted across
realistic terrain already covered by a 4G
LTE network, the IPVT allowed the Army to
explore the prototypes already developed
and obtain sufficient performance data to
support a Milestone C low rate initial production decision.
Milestone Decision Authority for that
event, now planned for the middle of
December, is Dr. James T. Blake, US Army
Program Executive Officer for Simulation,
Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI).
Crediting his predecessor at PM TRADE
with great foresight in crafting a developmental project with production options,
Malone said, “So as soon as we get a
positive Milestone C decision from Dr. Blake
we are well postured to obligate the dollars
immediately on the existing contract with
those options and to begin work to install
the network infrastructure at the CTCs and
begin building out the player units and procuring the radios that we will need to instrument first the National Training Center and
then later on JRTC with this capability. Once
that has been done we will come back and
conduct an acceptance test at the Combat
Training Centers.”
Providing that a positive Milestone C
decision is made, current plans call for Initial
Operational Capability (IOC) at NTC in the
third quarter of FY15 with Full Operational
Capability (FOC) in the second quarter of
FY18. The IOC and FOC at the JRTC are
projected for the third quarter of FY17 and
third quarter of FY18 respectively.
“The Army is moving forward with their
modernization efforts for the CTCs in support of the Chief of Staff of the Army’s strategic priority to maintain a ready and modern force,” Malone concluded. “And we are
going to modernize the CTCs to ensure that
they support both combined arms maneuver
and wide area security capabilities to ensure
that we challenge and certify the total Army
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The society’s journal is also highly rated. It is all part of reaching out
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Our membership is also growing every year. A decade ago we had
about 500 members and we’ve experienced about an eight-fold
increase this decade.”
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One significant business area that continues to expand its I/ITSEC
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Event focused on Entering the Healthcare Modeling and Simulation
Market. That panel event was sponsored by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH).
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Dean, School of Health Professions, Eastern Virginia Medical School.
“To put that in context, we blow through the Department of Defense
budget in two months. So it’s a big enterprise.
“Yet when you look at the quality of our healthcare system, it
doesn’t rank number one in anything, except for being the most
expensive,” he acknowledged. “In most other areas it typically ranks
in the 30s and 40s. And because it is so expensive – twice as much
on a per capita basis as any other country in the world and half of
all the healthcare spending in the world for only 5% of the world’s
population – it is what my DOD colleagues would call a target rich
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Simulation is widely viewed as a powerful set of tools to help
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Panel Warns of Cyber Training Capability Gap
The US is not training enough “cyber Jedis”
both within the military and the educational
system, and this is becoming an increasingly
acute strategic vulnerability, delegates at
I/ITSEC 2013 were warned.
At a special event focusing on cyberspace threats, a group of panelists outlined increasingly sophisticated cyber threats ranging from
insider attacks, hacktivists, cyber criminals, terrorist and patriotic
hackers, and nation states.
Jeff Greene, Senior Policy Counsel/Cyber Security and Identity
at Symantec, outlined a range of cyber-attacks, including the highjacking of The Onion’s Twitter feed by the Syrian Electronic Army in
May 2013.
Greene argued that such threats demonstrated the need for the
US to be smarter in the cyber realm.
“I am excited to be here with a group that is focused on the training side. I go to a lot of panels, I speak to a lot of industry groups
internally and externally and I don’t go anywhere without people talking about the need for more cyber expertise,” Greene said.
“We are not training enough people, we don’t have enough
people in the pipeline, but this topic is not going away. The problem
you usually hear is just that statement without any solution to it, so
we need to talk about that.”
Despite these shortcomings, Greene said he was actually hopeful
about the nation’s ability to respond to the range of future threats.
“The level of interest and knowledge that is out there is increasing along with the examples of malware that I was talking about
– people are paying attention, and that means there will be public attention, but there will also be training and people that want to learn
about this. So I think five to ten years from now the interest that we
are seeing now will lead to the experts that we need.”
In addition, there are still a lot of basic measures that individuals
and organizations can use that circumvents the “business model” of
criminal groups trying to take advantage of cyber vulnerabilities.
The nature of the threat led the Pentagon to stand up US Cyber
Command (USCYBERCOM) in 2010 and its mandate was expanded
last year to work with industry to protect the nation from cyberattacks Joan Garbutt, Director of Manpower and Personnel at
USCYBERCOM, told delegates that the head of the command, Gen
Keith Alexander, had now developed a strategic vision that outlines
how the various services will coordinate their cyber activities.
“He has tasked each one of the services to constitute a certain
number of teams in order to present forces to us to make sure we
are coordinating our efforts. As you can imagine, at the speed of
cyber, if you don’t have a coordinated effort, you miss the opportunity to defend against an enemy or even exploit an enemy. So that
has to be coordinated – you don’t want to trip over each other on
the network.
“So that’s the importance of CYBERCOM and that’s the importance of General Alexander in terms of getting the services all
coordinated with their teams.”
Garbutt noted that cyber was not a Department of Defense problem only and was instead an interagency and international problem.
Peter Bonanni, President of Intific Inc, outlined the work his
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company is doing for the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA) under the Plan X program, which to aims develop
platforms for the DoD to plan for, to conduct, and to assess cyberwarfare in a manner similar to kinetic warfare.
Bonanni likened the aims of the project to the radar display of
a fourth generation fighter aircraft, which required a lot of interpretation by the pilot to understand the information on display. By
contrast, the latest fifth generation aircraft provide a display that
was more intuitive and easy to understand.
The goal of Plan X is to create “revolutionary technologies for
understanding, planning and managing DoD cyber missions in real-
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Despite such advances, David Brumley, Assistant Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University,
sounded a note of caution.
The university has been heavily involved in various hacking competitions, and has been very successful in this, but Brumley argued
that the US in general was falling behind in this arena.
“If you go and look at the international rankings of these contests,
we are number one and the next US team is ranked number 21. There
are 20 spots between US teams – the US has this message that we
are going to win in cyberspace, that’s all talk. If you look at this sort of
metric, we would have a hard time backing that up as far as talent.
“To the facts – 10 percent of high schools offer AP computer
science – only 10 percent. Fifteen thousand students took the APCS
test in 2011, while 200,000 took the AP calculus test. But which
one do you use more often – calculus or computer science? And 60
percent of universities do not offer any course in information security, let alone exploitation.”
The university is trying to address that gap and now runs a number of exercises. One of the larger ones was called Toaster Wars,
a high school hacking competition to encourage information security
as a discipline and career choice.
This attracted 1938 participating teams involving more than
10,000 students. Tellingly, the average amount of time each student spent solving problems as part of the exercise was 12 hours,
with the winning teams devoting three days straight working on
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Future Leaders Pavilion Showcases Student Talent
Visitors to I/ITSEC 2013 can
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the talent which America’s high
school students will be able to
bring to tomorrow’s modeling
and simulation community at the
Future Leaders Pavilion (Booth
2571) in the STEM Pavilion.
At 1030 today, the students
will present their projects in
Room 320F during a Special Session entitled ‘The Future is Now!’.
It is the 12th year that the
NTSA has hosted the FLP and
Paper Session. It spotlights the
work of students from across
the USA who are committed to
excellence. Most are enrolled in
engineering, computer sciences, mathematics, or modelling
and simulation tracks.
With more than 30% of
current DoD science and technology professionals expected to retire
by 2020, it is vital to America’s national security and economic
prosperity that more students are encouraged to pursue studies
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and careers in the STEM field.
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high school students, accompanied by school chaperones and
volunteer I/ITSEC member escorts, who will experience first-hand,
real-world training, simulation, and education solutions that will
help bridge the gap between classroom theory and the applied use
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Deon Branch and DeMarco Turner from Dayton Early College
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Avery Bibeau and Sam Jae Kim from The Governor’s School
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Dori Bradford and Matthew Tidwell from New Century Technology High School, Huntsville, AL, presenting ‘Racing Towards
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Brintnal Hodson and Frank Hughes from Shaker High School,
Latham, NY displaying ‘Use of Electromagnetic Actuator to
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Randall Ratliff and Tyreke Tanner from William Spencer
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Universities Exchange Best Practices at I/ITSEC
One growing presence at I/ITSEC involves institutions of higher
learning. I/ITSEC 2013 had the benefit by attendance by more than
a half dozen colleges and universities who used the venue to spotlight their modeling and simulation activities.
“The Texas A&M University System has 11 campuses, with the
flagship one being in College Station, TX,” said James Wall, Ph.D.,
Executive Director of the Texas A&M Texas Center for Applied Technology. “But we also have eight state agencies that belong to the
university system. We belong to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and we’re centered within that agency.”
“One area that we’ve done a lot of work in lately is human social
culture and behavioral modeling for the TRADOC [US Army Training
and Doctrine Command] Intelligence Support Activity, which belongs
to the Army G2,” Wall said. “Basically we were the lead systems integrator for a number of systems that are used to immerse soldiers
in a role where they are trying to find what we call ‘Golden Nuggets,’
or components of an IED that may be in a village.”
He added that another non-military area where they have been
involved is a Simulation for Stimulation program that they do in support of the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service.
“They are FEMA-funded,” he noted. “And to date we have trained
probably 8,000 people from across the nation in incident command
post operations. They train but we built the simulation and support
the simulation.”
As highlighted by Cheryl Monachino, Director for Industrial
Outreach, Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied
Science, Binghamton University, part of the State University of New
York system, the Binghamton location is the birthplace of simulation.
“That’s where Edwin A. Link is from,” she said. “So we’ve been
around modeling and simulation in our community since the 1920s.
So Binghamton University has participated in a lot of training and development. In particular, what we are doing here is highlighting our
professional development training course in simulation, where we
bring in industry experts and present a course for engineers or program managers who may understand the basics of their discipline
but may not understand how it all comes together in a modeling and
simulation architecture.”
In addition, the university presence is helping to support a half
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dozen Binghamton-based small businesses who are attending
I/ITSEC 2013.
“We are the world’s first department in modeling, simulation and
engineering,” asserted Rick McKenzie, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering at Old
Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. “We have the world’s first bachelor
of science in modeling and simulation engineering and we had our
first bachelor graduates from that program this past May. We had
four graduates and one of them went on for their masters degree at
MIT while the other three are continuing with their masters degree
with us. We offered the first Ph.D. in modeling and simulation and
have been teaching graduate programs since 1998. But we just
started the bachelors program in 2010.”
“We’re here to recruit more graduate
and undergraduate students,” he said.
Atino Secor, Assistant Director of
Military Admissions at Full Sail University,
Winter Park, FL. said that representatives
from that entertainment media school are
at I/ITSEC 2013 “to meet our graduates’
employers.”
“Modeling and simulation is where most
of our graduates are going now, instead of
‘the game side,’” he said, noting that it was
a natural progression for their students to
go from the Orlando-area campus straight
out to Research Parkway.
A Ph.D. student in the Computer
Science Department at Virginia Tech,
Siroberto Scerbo is with that school’s
Human/Computer Interaction Institute.
“Our lab studies Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality,” he
explained. “And what we’re doing here at
I/ITSEC is support the Office of Naval Research, which is one of the
groups that fund us and helped draw us to this space, to highlight
our work in studying different components of simulation fidelity and
display fidelity to determine how they impact training.”
Greg Tang identified his company, Artificial Cube, as a brand new
start-up organized three months ago by three individuals who were
all at Brown University.
“We were all there in the Virtual Reality Lab at Brown at the
same time and we came together and developed the idea to bring
the virtual reality experience onto a smart phone or tablet. So
whatever the use we can now put any kind of VR experience onto an
Android ios tablet or smart phone. So we came to I/ITSEC for the
first time to display our product.”
David Metcalf, Ph.D., from the University of Central Florida Institute for Simulation and Training, noted that UCF has “some of the
same types of programs in modeling and simulation for masters and
Ph.D., but in addition to meeting with our informal alumni network,
which is a lot of people who are in the companies and government
organizations that are here, we also come to I/ITSEC to meet up
with our research partners from across the globe.”
“It is an opportunity to do a kind of baseline assessment right
after the start of the fiscal year and as we go into the next calendar
year, to see where things are with our partners.”
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2013 NTSA Modeling & Simulation Awards
NTSA presented its annual Modeling & Simulation Awards, as well as two Governor’s
Awards for Outstanding Achievement, at its annual Executive Dinner at the Hyatt Regency
Orlando on Tuesday, December 3. NTSA President RADM James Robb, USN (Ret), presented awards to a diverse group of award winners representing the healthcare and education
communities, in addition to the US Army Program Executive Officer for Simulation, Training
and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) and the US Air Force Space Command.
2013 Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in Training & Simulation
Dr. James T. Blake, US Army PEO STRI
Dr. Blake, a distinguished soldier, leader, technologist and mentor, is recognized for a lifetime of sustained exemplary service to our nation, military services, academia and especially
the modeling and simulation industry, and for a remarkable career spanning over 40 years.
In 1968, Dr. Blake enlisted as a US Army infantry private, became an officer and pilot, and
had a distinguished career culminating in 1995 as the Army’s Senior Uniformed Scientist.
He then held several technical and executive positions in industry before joining academia
as a Senior Research Scientist at Texas A&M University. Following that, he became the
first Program Manager for the Institute of Creative Technologies. In his current role as the
Army’s PEO STRI, which he has held since 2005, he provides leadership for a multi-billion
dollar enterprise with more than 1,200 personnel, sustaining over 335,000 training systems at over 600 locations worldwide.
2013 Governor’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Modeling & Simulation
TeachLivE, University of Central Florida
TeachLivE, developed at the University of Central Florida, is a virtual-reality classroom environment that enables teachers to learn and improve their teaching skills through practice
and rehearsal. The system combines a rendering engine, hardware and software libraries,
innovative network and user interaction technologies, and an integrated after action review
system. TeachLivE helps to address the critical national need for well prepared, effective
classroom teachers. It is now in use at 32 universities across the USA, and more than
6,000 teachers have used the system. Its use in a wide range of additional applications is
currently being investigated.
The winners of the 2013 NTSA Modeling &
Simulation Awards and Governor’s Awards
Modeling & Simulation Award Winners
Acquisition
Space Superiority Systems
Architectures Team
Air Force Space Command
Cross-Function
Joint Fires Product Line Fires Team
Product Manager for Special Operations
Forces Training System
Training
Virtual Surgery Simulator
Smile Train and BioDigital Inc.
Corrosion: The Silent Menace
Department of Defense, The Orlando
Science Center, The University of Akron,
and Bruno White Entertainment
Frost & Sullivan Evaluates M&S Trends
One of the many unique opportunities at I/ITSEC 2013 was a
presentation on Wednesday morning at which Frost & Sullivan
Aerospace and Defense Senior Industry Analyst Michael Blades
addressed the topic of current Department of Defense Training &
Simulation Trends and Analysis. The presentation, the first of its kind
at I/ITSEC, was offered as part of the popular Innovation Showcase.
As US forces remain deployed overseas, increased emphasis is
placed on home station training. However, maintaining readiness in
the absence of active overseas deployments and consequent combat
experience is paramount as US forces continue to face the widest
spectrum of threats in history. Therefore, employing the full potential
of concepts and technologies embedded in simulations for training
is critical in maintaining force readiness under conditions of reduced
training outlays and home station training restrictions.
According to Blades, “Despite recent fiscal constraint and
budgetary uncertainty, training and simulation is one of the most
dynamic and rapidly evolving markets, witnessing dramatic growth
over the past decade and continuing to be a large growth sector in
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the global aerospace and defense industry. Training and simulation
is vital to education and military readiness, especially in light of reduced budgets. Those even remotely interested in the market need
crucial insight to ensure they acquire and incorporate the necessary
technologies into their operational framework that are essential
for success.”
Blades’ presentation concluded with three key points: the relative
strength of the training and simulation market in comparison to other defense market segments; the increasing difficulty in determining
differences between live and virtual training; and an expectation of
continuing mergers and acquisitions in the defense arena.
“With the budget decreasing like it is, RDT&E dollars are going
to be drying up as well,” he said. “Companies are going to be responsible for that RDT&E. No company is going to want to invest
fully in something and take on all that risk. Rather, they will want
to spread that risk around by developing partnerships. And not
only that, they will be able to create some synergies with some
innovative companies.”
Students Urged to Follow STEM Careers
One media organization that has made a significant commitment to the success of STEM
[Science, Technology, Engineering and Math]
initiatives is U.S. News & World Report.
Speaking to the Show
Daily, Brian Kelly, Editor
and Chief Content Officer,
said that the organization
views STEM “as a big
national policy crisis.”
“It’s really an economic story as much as an
education story,” he said.
“It combines education
and jobs, which are two of the areas we report on extensively.
People have come to us for education information for many years,
through our Best Colleges, High Schools, and Graduate Schools
listings. With all of that, we have millions of people a month coming
to us looking for education information. And in another part of our
website we have a lot of people coming to us for career advice. And
it occurred to us a few years ago that there was a real disconnect
between the advice people were getting in terms of education and
where the jobs were.
“You see so many unfilled jobs that require STEM-related degrees, expertise or background,” he asserted. “So this really got us
involved in this, both as a consumer issue and as a policy issue. So
the idea was how do we make sense of this for people in terms of
their own lives as well as from a national policy standpoint? How do
we bring in the leadership community and get them to talk about
what more we should be doing in terms of putting our
efforts together?”
The organization’s involvement started about five years ago and
has included sponsorship of three national conferences to date. The
most recent one was held June 17-19, 2013, in Austin, TX.
“We call it ‘STEM Solutions,’” Kelly said. “It’s like a tradeshow.
We had about 1,600 people last year in Austin. And we’re doing
the next one in Washington, D.C. this coming year in April, at the
D.C. Convention Center. We’re actually partnering with the USA
Science and Engineering Festival, in which Lockheed Martin and a
lot of the defense contractors are very involved. It’s more of a consumer show, where there will be hundreds of thousands of people
at the convention center looking at STEM in all of its dimensions,
which could be a course curriculum; it could be a game; or it could
be a simulation.
“Our theme for our conference last year was: Teach. Inspire.
Hire,” he noted. “And if you look at simulation you quickly see that
they are able to do all three. So I think it’s a very appropriate audience to not only look at STEM from the national policy side but also
from the consumer side. How do you help educate people?”
Kelly hopes that I/ITSEC attendees learn to “get more involved
in the inspiration side of things. The ability to reach out and partner
with schools and to use the expertise that they have as a way of
showing younger folks what the opportunities are. Because the
problem is that this isn’t at the high end. Everybody in this building
is good at this. They’re not the problem. The problem is all of the
people outside the building, many of whom are in elementary school
and in high school. And they don’t even see the pathway. That’s
where we’re going to have a problem.
“You see so many unfilled jobs that
require STEM-related degrees, expertise
or background, ... So this really got us
involved in this.”
“It’s already a tight job market. But it’s going to get a lot tighter,
because particularly women and minorities are not going into STEM
related studies. By contrast, white kids from reasonably upper class
backgrounds get the message. They are going into the STEM fields
and they are filling this building. But in some groups and communities there’s just a huge disconnect,” he said.
“This is a national problem but it has local solutions,” he concluded. “It has to come through partnerships. It has to come through
industry, educators, government workforce, and the media. We
play our own role of trying to bring public awareness to the issue,
which I think is critical.”
MODSIM World Looks Across Domains
MODSIM World is a multi-disciplinary
modeling and simulation event that provides
a unique opportunity to learn about new
applications and practices across diverse
domains. The conference is being held
15-17 April, 2014, in Hampton Roads, VA.
“MODSIM World is the only industrycentric conference with a broad base of
modeling and simulation,” explained Steve
Husak, an NTSA onsite representative in
the Hampton Roads area. “What is unique
about MODSIM World is the fact that it is
multi-disciplinary. Whereas I/ITSEC is an
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interservice/industry conference, the whole
intent of MODSIM World is to diversify more
into other areas, such as manufacturing,
education, healthcare, homeland security,
cyber, and other applications.”
“What we have done in the past that we
are doing differently this time is to promote
more collaboration,” he said. “Here at
I/ITSEC, for example, there are several
different ‘tracks’ that attendees can follow.
But at MODSIM World we will be focusing
more on the technology, to try to have a
‘cross-threading,’ if you will, of the expertise,
so that the education community can benefit
from some of the technology from the defense community; defense can benefit from
transportation; etcetera.
“There will also be networking opportunities with the military as well as NASA,” he
asserted. “Plus the State of Virginia will also
have significant involvement.”
Husak said that MODSIM World is currently soliciting for sponsorships, with a
wide range of sponsorship opportunities and
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A Serious Challenge
The Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (SGS&C) celebrates
the use of games and game technology as a delivery medium for
instructional material. The Challenge is divided into three primary
categories: Business, Government and Student. Additionally,
special awards are given for Mobile serious games, a special
emphasis category on Adaptive Force Training, and for STEM serious games as determined by middle/high school students. After a rigorous evaluation, the top American and international entries were selected as finalists in October and invited
to showcase their games on the exhibit floor during the I/ITSEC
conference. A second round of evaluations from worldwide
industry experts (middle/high school students for the Students’
Choice Award) determines the best in each category. The SGS&C 2013 Finalists
Business Category
Algeburst — Muzzy Lane Software (Students’ Choice candidate)
Doorkickers — Blackfoot Studios, LLC (Adaptive Force candidate)
Formulation Type Matters — Bottom-Line Performance, Inc.
GLIMPSE — The University of Texas at Dallas
(Adaptive Force candidate)
Hands-on Interview and Interrogation Training System (HIITS) –
SIMmersion LLC
An additional award, the People’s Choice Award, is selected by
all I/ITSEC attendees via their provided ballots – in essence,
the “Best of Show” as determined by serious game attendees.
Awards are presented at I/ITSEC to recognize these prestigious accomplishments.
The award ceremony will take place today at 1300 at the
Warfighters Corner Stage in Booth 2781. The SGS&C is located in
the STEM pavilion in Booth 2761.
Congratulations to all of the SGS&C 2013 Finalists and good
luck in the Challenge!
Those interested in competing in the SGS&C 2014 can find
information at www.sgscallenge.com. Entries must be submitted by
15 September 2014.
The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School (TJAGLCS’s) Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) Interactive Trainer —
c2 Technologies (mobile)
The Whitecard Game — Oztron Media and Victoria
University (Adaptive Force candidate and SimTect entry)
Government Category
Burden of Proof — Federal Bureau of Investigation (Students’ Choice and Adaptive Force candidate)
Decisive Combat — Singapore Armed Forces Centre for
Leadership Development (mobile)
GORRDEE — US Army PdM-Ground Maneuver (mobile)
Perfect World — BreakAway Games (Students’ Choice candidate)
Student Category
A Slower Speed of Light — MIT Game Lab (Students’ Choice candidate)
PlatinuMath — Triad Interactive Media, Inc.
(Students’ Choice candidate)
Euphony — Université du Québec à Chicoutimi – Centre NAD
Thralled — University of Southern California (mobile)
Practice: Operations Management — Muzzy Lane Software
(Adaptive Force candidate)
Virtual Warrane II — Queensland University of Technology
(SimTect entry)
MACBETH — University of Oklahoma (Students’ Choice and Adaptive Force candidate)
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Industry Showcases Advantages of COTS
As Pentagon officials call for greater use of the Live, Virtual,
Constructive (LVC) construct – both as a cost-saving measure and to
simulate complex operations in a way that was not previously possible
– industry is responding with the required enabling technologies.
Across the show floor at I/ITSEC 2013, companies are exhibiting a
range of advances, offering greater use of COTS in military simulations and solutions at varying levels of fidelity.
In one example, Presagis (Booth 1933) unveiled its M&S Suite 13,
which allows for rapid creation of content and scenarios for simulation applications.
Presagis director of product management Stéphane Blondin told
the Show Daily that the availability of such content generation tools
was lowering the cost of entry for new players looking to enter the
simulation field.
He said the M&S Suite 2013 product saves users time and
money by uniting 3D modeling, terrain generation, simulation and
visualization software into one integrated package.
“The size and density of databases are increasing every year so
a challenge is to make that process as fast as possible. The speed
and the level of integration between the components is its advantage,” Blondin said.
“This market has been built over the last 30 years by industry
leaders who have had to build a lot of these tools in house. Our value
proposition is we can do it for more than one application, more than
one customer at a time and we can lower the cost of entry.
“The other advantage is we can pre-integrate a lot of those components together. So every time we add functionality to the product,
we have to think of the impact on the visual, the sim and on the
content creation, which is a benefit that customers who pick and
choose tools from different areas don’t get.”
Another emerging trend is
an increased use of the open
standards required to federate
disparate systems in order to
enable the LVC ambitions of
the military.
Blondin explained that the
creation of a common database
(CDB) was allowing defense
agencies to standardize simulation systems across multiple
ground, air, maritime and special
forces applications.
“One of the trends in the industry is mixing reality, simulation,
and embedded training – and this is one area of growth. The big
advantage of CDB is being able to be a repository and a real-time
publisher to multiple users so you can build a database for those
users and everyone can see the same data.
“For example, a jet trainer simulation doesn’t need the same level
of ground detail as a ground simulator is going to need. So we built
the CDB to accommodate multiple simulation systems sharing the
same data. Customers told us they were sick of buying the same
terrain data over and over again.
“Now the idea is that you can essentially throw the data into a
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central repository and all
of the simulation systems
can consume it right away.
This also allows for better
collaborative working.”
The company has
worked with Silkan (Booth
2329) to federate a tank
trainer for a Middle Eastern army customer, allowing the three person crew to work as a team but also together in a tank platoon.
The Presagis technology is being demonstrated at I/ITSEC by
a range of partners, including Boston Dynamics (DI-Guy), CM Labs
(Booth 1565), Makemedia, NADS, Pitch Technologies (Booth 2462),
Precision Lightworks, RAAS and UniVisual.
Accurate modelling of structure damage is another area that is
perceived as a current gap in the market with several companies
highlighting this area at I/ITSEC 2013.
For example, software developer GameSim (Booth 1266) is providing a hands-on demonstration of its Ruin platform, which provides
physics-based, visually accurate animations of the destruction of
structures.
Havok Simulation also highlighted its image generation technology
that has been chosen by Nova Technologies (Booth 629) for the US
Army’s Call for Fire Trainer (CFFT) III program.
Havok managing director David Coghlan told the Show Daily that
its simulation development framework had also been chosen by
Raydon Corporation as part of its work on the US Army’s Common
Driver Trainer Program.
“What we can do is use this capacity to make realistic simulations, not just to have more pleasing visuals but also in those areas
where a key part of the training requires that realistic modeling,”
Coghlan said.
Blondin said the current availability of high-quality COTS products that can be used to generate tailored simulation systems was
changing the face of the industry.
“Two years ago we ordered a private survey from Frost & Sullivan
about our customers and one of the things that came out of it was
that on average people who do not use COTS in their projects spend
70 to 90% of their resources – that’s time and people, building and
integrating the components.” (See Frost & Sullivan article on page 22)
He argued that depending on the level of COTS used, this can go
down from 70 to 20%, allowing companies to more quickly respond
to market opportunities.
“We are also noticing a whole slew of suppliers from outside the
traditional space. With sequestration, the growth in the Western
hemisphere is pretty elusive but we are seeing some regions where
there are a whole slew of suppliers that are coming up. They are
really interested in some of these COTS tools as they don’t have the
legacy of in-house tools and in-house script and in-house staff. This is
why we have doubled the number in our international team this year.”
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news in brief
UK Uses NSC Simulator in Naval Trials
The UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dtsl) is
evaluating a ship-mounted 7.62mm General Purpose Machine
Gun (GPMG) simulator developed by NSC.
The contract requires the integration of an accurate scoring and
marking system to expedite throughput and increase efficiency.
Deliveries will be completed during 2014.
“We have invested in a very robust and reliable LOMAH solution which now will be delivered to a very innovative live fire program in the UK. We are proud that Lockheed Martin found our
solution best for this challenging program,” said Hans Lindgren,
vice president and head of marketing and sales with Saab Training & Simulation. The SARTS project included tough functional
and environmental requirements. The competitive evaluation was
performed over a four-week period with more than 20,000 shots.
According to Lindgren the Saab solution met or exceeded requirements for accuracy and hit detection, both in normal and extreme
conditions, such as rain, wind and cold.
ECS Supporting USMC with Ship
On Land Virtual Environment
Dtsl bought the simulator to use for trials to investigate novel
training methods for Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Fleet
Auxiliary personnel. The simulator was delivered to Dtsl’s Porton
Down facility and has since been moved to the Royal Marine base
in Plymouth. The evaluation will continue until April-May 2014.
Feedback from the trials will be used to inform a potential Ministry of Defence requirement for such a training system.
The simulator is the first in the UK to utilize the latest version
of Virtual Battlespace 2. It puts users’ fingers on the trigger of
a deactivated GPMG as action unfolds on a three meter radius
curved screen. With compressed air providing realistic haptic
feedback and electronics tracking the weapon’s movement,
operators are exposed to engagements in an immersive surround
sound, high-definition environment.
The portable simulator is capable of replicating scenarios
ranging from defending against attacks from small, fast-moving
vessels and supporting anti-piracy missions to port-based security
taskings. Environmental factors are also accounted for with
weather conditions, solar glare, surface reflections and spray all
affecting visibility and weapon performance. Darrin Abbott, NSC’s head of future business, told the Show
Daily that the company has been in discussions with machine gun
manufacturers who are seeking a training system to satisfy the
needs of their customers. He said the simulator could be used
with light, medium and heavy machine guns.
Saab Supplies Target Scoring System to UK
The UK Ministry of Defence has selected Saab (Booth 1939) to
provide 4,248 location of hit and miss (LOMAH) sensors to prime
contractor Lockheed Martiin UK (Booth 1749) for the Small Arms
Range Targetry System (SARTS) project. Lockheed Martin UK
was awarded a £37 million ($58 million) contract in February
2011 to deliver the SARTS, described as one of the world’s largest targetry programs. The contract requires Lockheed Martin to
deliver and install a suite of infantry target equipment, including
both fixed and moving targets, at nearly 140 locations worldwide.
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Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS) is developing a Ship
on Land Virtual Environment (SOLVE) to support US Marine Corps
training. Under the direction of the Program Manager, Training
Systems (PM TRASYS), the simulation incorporates a ‘slice’ of the
USMC’s Enhanced Visit, Board, Search, Seize (E-VBSS) capabilities
to allow trainees to practice and apply their tactics, techniques and
procedures in a variety of situations. ECS is producing an immersive simulation that incorporates the perspectives and roles of the
raid force, over watch positions and mission commander.
As part of this program, ECS is delivering a realistic and accurate virtual representation of a medium-sized cargo ship at sea.
Marines will use the virtual ship model as the means to plan for
how they will raid a vessel of that type, depending upon a variety
of factors and variables that will influence their decisions and approaches. “The Ship On Land Virtual Environment will have many
unique features to allow for high fidelity 3D visualization in a portable software package, allowing it to be used as a classroom tool,
familiarization for live training, or even for mission rehearsal,” said
Shane Taber, creative director and program manager, ECS.
“The framework for this program establishes a capability
that can be used for planning purposes for any type of maritime
assets, both military and commercial”, added Joe O’Connell, VP
business development. “This includes commercial offshore gas
and oil platforms. Whether needed for planning purposes in support of military interdiction, security training, crew familiarization,
or for crisis preparedness, the use of accurate and realistic 3D
simulations enhances the process.”
Northrop Grumman Pursues Saudi Helicopter Support
Northrop Grumman used I/ITSEC 2013 to publicly outline the teaming arrangement it has in place as it pursues a major helicopter
training and support package for Saudi Arabia.
The US Army’s Integrated Maintenance Support Services (IMSS)
program aims to assist the Saudi Arabian National Guard Ministry in
maximizing aircraft operational capabilities and meet training objectives
as the ministry stands up a helicopter capability for the first time.
Northrop Grumman’s (Booth 1949) team to compete for the program includes AAR, Defense Support Services, LLC (DS2), QinetiQ
North America, Vinnell Arabia and Northrop Grumman Aviation
Arabia (NGAA).
Formerly known as the Saudi Arabian National Guard, the organization was stood up as a full ministry in May 2013 giving it more
authority and a larger institutional budget.
Under a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) package first announced
in 2010, the ministry will receive 60 rotary wing aircraft from the
US: 12 AH-64E Apaches, 24 AH-6i, and 24 UH-60M Black Hawks,
which will be located at Khashm Al An, (KAA) Airfield.
Northrop Grumman Director of Strategy and Business Development Frank Simpkins explained that the aircraft will be delivered
from 2015 to 2017, while the support package will run for five
years from 2014. Industry responses to the program’s request for
proposals are due on 23 December.
“We have been supporting the Saudi Arabian National Guard,
now the Ministry of National Guard, for more than 38 years. We
have been on the ground with them for that period of time. And that
includes aviation assets in early 2013,” Simpkins said.
The company is currently providing support to the 12 MD530F
helicopters that have been delivered to the ministry as it trains the
pilots required for its new fleet.
“We provide full support and aviation training, maintenance, sustainment, and airfield operations for their fleet of MD530F aircraft.
The aircraft were delivered early in 2013, and we assembled a
team which was very responsive to the requirements of the National
Guard and that team is who we are using to pursue the Integrated
Maintenance Support Services contract.”
Under the IMSS program, the support services provided shall
be based on an annual flight program of 200 flight hours per
aircraft and an objective operational readiness rate of 75% fully
mission capable.
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warfig h ters ’ corner
Warfighters Share Their Experience at I/ITSEC
Warfighters’ Corner is always a popular event at I/ITSEC, providing an opportunity for servicemen and women to share with
industry representatives and other attendees their experiences
in Afghanistan, Iraq and other Overseas Contingency Operations.
Speakers discuss how their training prepared them for operations
and the valuable lessons learned.
The speakers at Thursday’s session, which will run from 10301200 at Booth 2781, are:
US Army Staff Sergeant Scott Harrison enlisted in the California Army National Guard in April 1997 and then transferred to
active duty. During three deployments in Iraq, totaling 39 months,
he served as a Team Leader, Squad Leader and most recently as
a Weapons Squad Leader. He is now stationed at the Maneuver
Center of Excellence, at Ft. Benning.
US Marine Corps Master Sergeant Robert A. Sousa III is
the Current Operations Chief, Marine Air Control Group-38,
3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Miramar, CA. MSg Sousa is a Direct
Air Support Net Operator. His operational deployments include
Kuwait 3rd Marine Air Wing Tactical Air Command Center for
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Operation Southern Watch and Operation Iraqi Freedom; Fallujah
Marine Air Support Squadron 3 (Forward) Direct Air Support
Center Chief OIF (2); 11th MEU Aviation Support Element Staff
Non Commissioned Officer in Charge USS Tarawa OIF; Leatherneck Marine Tactical Air Command Squadron 38 Close Battle
Cell Coordinator, OEF.
US Navy Commander Robert Salvia, a Naval Flight Officer, is
the Military Deputy for Cross-Warfare Programs at the Naval Air
Warfare Center Training Systems Division in Orlando. CDR Salvia
commanded the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, from 2012-2013.
US Air Force Major Ben J. Buller recently returned from deployment to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing, where he served
as the Chief of Wing Plans. He is now the Commander of Detachment 6, Air Mobility Command (AMC) Air Operations Squadron, at
Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, TX, which provides Headquarters AMC oversight of all aspects of C-5 training including Flight
Simulators, Aircrew Training Devices, Courseware, and Formal
Training Unit operations.
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