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These multifaceted training research systems are designed andbuilt through a collaboration of warfighters, scientists, and engi-neers. This unique arrangement provides the opportunity forresearchers to conduct training research with the warfighter, inturn providing the warfighter with valuable integrated training, allwithin a research laboratory.
Several of these systems are on display across the I/ITSEC showfloor and will be incorporated into daily scenarios to showcase theirintegrated training capabilities.
By incorporating game-based systems with high-fidelity trainers,Mesa will be highlighting the utility of smaller footprint, lower-costoptions to augment training. Referred to as the complimentary fam-ily of trainers, this concept explores the ability of several incorporat-ed devices to train the multitude of missions for each operatorwhile reducing cost and increasing availability of training devices.
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Across the floor on the Acme booth (2746), an F-16 DeployableTactical Trainer (DTT) with Acme’s Dynamic Motion Seat (DMS)installed will be on display. This system is exploring the utility of min-imal seat motion in a simulator to reduce operator error due tolack of vestibular clues. By providing some tactile feedback, thedevice can increase the operators’ situational awareness and pro-vide key insight into the performance of the simulated airframe.
Another DTT will be on display in the Immersive DisplaySolutions booth (1245), this one featuring a 3m partial dome visu-al system. Mesa is comparing this immersive concept with previ-ous 3-screen cockpit layouts to determine what training gains, ifany, can be realized.
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During the morning scenario, Swedish warfighters will connectfrom the Flygvapnets Luftstridssimuleringscenter in Stockholm,Sweden to the exhibition floor and interact with the JTAC-TRS,DTTs, AWACS via Plexsys (Booth 1225), and others to provide sup-port for a non-governmental organization escort and protectionscenario. The afternoon scenario will consist of the local players ina scenario with the JTAC coordinating close air support for a con-voy. Interim times will feature smaller scale, interactive, game-driv-en scenarios incorporating the JTAC-TRS and assets including:Aptima’s DDD, Sonalyst’s Dangerous Waters, and other game-based training systems.
Noting how the combined scenarios will highlight the utility ofgames in the family of complimentary trainers, representatives forthe Mesa Research Site express the belief that this ground break-ing coordination of platforms puts their ongoing efforts at the fore-front of discovery, development, and integration of affordablewarfighting technologies.
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It is another highly successful year for I/ITSEC with the floor spacecompletely sold out. However, according to the president of NTSA,RADM Frederick L. Lewis USN (Ret) the success of the exhibition isalso a reflection of the community’s awareness of its importance inassisting the services in saving costs and lives.
“Its bigger and better than ever. We are sold out on floor spaceand its a record breaking year for that,’ Lewis told the Show Daily.“We are also expecting similar numbers for attendance as last year,despite the economic pressures that everyone is facing.”
This year 595 companies have taken 226,000 sq ft of exhibitspace. There has also been another strong showing on the new busi-ness front with over 40 new exhibitors.
“We are a growth industry and that’s what this is clearly an indica-tion of,’ he added. ‘As an industry we are responding to the changes inpriorities from major customers in the Department of Defense [DoD]and new challenges from other users of the technology.”
“Because of the economic pressures that we are seeing currently,our membership and NTSA are being careful to assure the customercommunity that we are working to save costs and help with efficiencysavings wherever possible. There is no doubt that the modeling andsimulation industry can help provide solutions that will assist withbudgetary pressures,” Lewis stated.
All the services are interested in looking at this. “Just recentlythere has been a major emphasis in the US Navy on simulation and
training capability and as a consequence wehave the largest delegation of senior Navy officers that we’ve ever had in attendance,”Lewis explained.
Looking at the main additions to I/ITSECthis year Lewis pointed to the new healthcarepavilion, which is pulling together some of themodeling and simulation technologies that areincreasingly being utilized in the healthcareindustry. “Modeling and simulation is rapidlyexpanding into many new and importantareas, and a great many of these are repre-sented on the exhibit hall floor. In particular,we are pleased to welcome the Society forSimulation in Healthcare as a participant thisyear, as part of the special healthcare pavil-ion,” Lewis explained.
Also, following its success last year, I/ITSEC will again include aninnovation showcase. The showcase gives companies the opportunityto explain to visitors some of the technologies that they have at theshow and demonstrate what the capabilities can do.
“Whether you are here as an exhibitor, government or military rep-resentative, or an overseas guest, I hope and expect you will find yourtime here well spent,” Lewis concluded.
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One new product being unveiled at I/ITSEC 2010 is the HumanWorn Partial Task Surgical Simulator (HWPTSS), from StrategicOperations [Booth 2913].
According to Kit Lavell, Executive Vice President at StrategicOperations, the company was created about eight years ago aspart of a television / movie studio to apply movie-making tech-niques to military training. The company has since provided trainingto over 400,000 military personnel.
“We coined the phrase, ‘hyper-realistic,’” Lavell said. ”And from thevery beginning we understood that a very important component tolive military training is the medical end, so we were one of the first toapply a lot of the movie-making techniques of medical makeup.”
“Along the way, we decided that we wanted to ‘ramp up’ thatmedical realism, because we realized that medics and corpsmenand other first responders rarely get a chance to get very realistictraining. In the military, the corpsmen or medics will generally getschool training; pharmacological training; and, if they’re lucky, theyget a chance to work around a hospital between deployments tobuild hands-on experience. But most of them don’t really get achance to see all of the types of wounds they could expect to seein combat. Even if they do get limited experience in a hospital trau-
ma center, they don’t get that training together with their ownunits. And if they ever do it’s never under combat conditions, withsimulated battlefield effects.”
Enter HWPTSS. More commonly known as ‘Cut Suit,’ theextremely realistic device fits over human role players, allowing indi-viduals to ‘act out’ injuries, providing both medical cues and distrac-tions that a care giver must overcome in a tactical setting.
“The suit itself is made out of different silicone-based materials,”Lavell explained. “The ‘skin’ is very realistic. When you cut it open itstarts to bleed. It’s got realistic internal organs, like a circulationsystem with the heart actually pumping. There’s a reservoir ofblood. You can start IVs and if you insert the needle correctly youget a little ‘return’ [of red fluid]. It’s very realistic. So are the suck-ing chest wounds, arterial bleeding from the femoral artery. Youcan even crack the ribs open and actually do some surgical proce-dures on it.”
“For example, we can put inside various different packages oforgans,” he continued. “So, if you wanted to simulate a gunshotwound to the chest with a lacerated liver, we could put those typesof wounds into the internal organs in that chest cavity. Then theindividual giving the care can cut into the suit, remove the fragmen-tation, suture organs and skin, clamp the skin; you can do justabout anything with the skin because it’s so realistic.”
Both skin and organs are replaceable and the ‘skin’ can also beglued back together nearly invisibly for dozens of training missions.
“We think the system is more realistic than anything that’s outthere,” Lavell observed. “It’s durable. It allows medical proceduresthat no other system allows. And in terms of the cost it is muchless expensive than a traditional training mannequin.”
“Last year, at I/ITSEC 2009, we participated in a small medicalbreakout session, where we had one of our early versions of our suit.It got a lot of attention there and over the last year we have broughtthat suit design to production-ready mode. This year is when we areactually launching the program to sell the device,” he said.
During I/ITSEC 2010, a role player will demonstrate the suit atthe company’s booth.
In addition to the I/ITSEC displays, a second Cut Suit will head toWashington, D.C. on Wednesday, where it will be a featureddemonstration in a coalition military medical event at the CanadianEmbassy.
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NGRAIN (Booth 1725) is in its eighth year of exhibiting at I/ITSECand according to the company’s CEO, Paul Lindahl, there has been aclear development in the focus of the training and simulation industry.
“Initially when we were here, there was a lot of activity aroundthe largest simulators, the weapon simulators and that. I’ve noticedin the last four years that you can actually see more and moreorganizations like us showing up. And usually that’s an indicator of abusiness opportunity,” Lindahl told the Show Daily.
Those business opportunities have certainly paid off for NGRAIN,which announced today that it has delivered the 5 KW PowerGenerator Virtual Task Trainer to the Canadian Forces School ofElectrical and Mechanical Engineering in Borden, Ontario. “They’veactually got six projects ongoing with us at this moment, and theyare part of a fairly significant army uptake of our NGRAIN solutions,”states Arnold van den Hoeven, the company’s Director of Canadian Defence.
“The most recent development is the five kilowatt power genera-tor, which supplies electrical power, and it’s one of those pieces ofequipment that a lot of people are expected to know and be able tomaintain, and often it ends up being left off the course,” he adds.“But they wanted to create an interactive solution that blends in
with one of our core differentiators, which is a 3D representationof that generator, and all the procedures for it, together with visual-izing where the components are, as well as the electrical circuitdiagram and functioning.”
NGRAIN has also been very careful to adapt to what the customerneeds. “One of the requests we had from our military customers, iscan we take what we do in our training environment, at a typicalbase, and provide an environment in the field where you stand besidethe equipment, and you need to replace the auxiliary power unit, and
show how to do it. So we’venow got our solution downon to a memory stick,where you plug the memorystick into any USB port, inany computer, and commu-nicate that knowledge ininteractive 3D at the pointof need,” Lindahl explains.
Another focus of changehas been in the use of
modeling and simulation to assist in the operation and sustainmentof platforms. “It is all about operational performance and savinglives, but being a manufacturer of equipment, it is about profitabilityand cost-avoidance. So one of the challenges that industry is facingis recognizing that the largest cost of ownership occurs after itships from the plant. In fact with most equipment, about 65-85%of the cost of ownership occurs in sustainment,” Lindahl states.
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BAE Systems (Booth 2601) is using I/ITSEC as a further opportuni-ty to highlight its offering for the US Air Force’s (USAF’s) AdvancedPilot Training Family of Systems. The USAF is currently goingthrough an Analysis of Alternatives on the back of two Requests forInformation to look at options to modernize or replace its agingfleet of T-38 trainers.
“We think [this year’s I/ITSEC] is a great opportunity, clearly withit being a year when the Air Force is the lead,’ Ian Reason, BAESystem’s business development director for the air training systemsbusiness told the Show Daily. “It will be a great opportunity for AirForce customers who are directly or indirectly involved, to comeand understand what we have, and we’ll have a 3D exhibit wherewe’ll be able to give quite a good overview and demonstration of thecapabilities of the aircraft, particularly of any training capabilities,which is one of our discriminators.”
The heart of the BAE bid is a version of its Hawk Advanced JetTrainer. Other companies lining up for the program includeLockheed Martin, offering the T-50, and Alenia Aermacchi with theM346, which it has rebranded as T-100 for the US market. Theseare the same aircraft that were shortlisted in preference to Hawkin competitions in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. Boeingis also believed to be considering making a bid for the competitionwith an as yet undisclosed aircraft.
Reason says the US requirement is better suited to what BAESystems can offer. “The US Air Force has effectively articulated avery intelligent requirement for an advanced pilot training family ofsystems. This is going to be selected on the basis of delivering pilottraining at lowest cost, we believe we have a compelling value-added proposition, because we have a low cost, both upfront, butthrough life as well, in terms of managing our solution, and we arealso low risk,” he asserts.
“We have a solution that is fully developed, is in service, and isalready selected by the UK, to train not just Typhoon pilots today,but the pilots of tomorrow. And we’ve also been selected byAustralia as the lead-in trainer for F-35 and in Canada,” he adds.
“The goal really for the T-X program is to offer a state of the artand proven aircraft training family of systems, to provide our US AirForce warfighters with the skills they need to train the world’s finestaviators to fight and win in combat. We at BAE Systems are totallyfocused on this end objective and have designed our HAWK AJTSsuite of training technologies with this objective in mind,” Bob Wood,the BAE Systems lead Executive for the Hawk T-X campaign added.
There is no doubt that the USAF requirement is immenselyimportant to the company. “It is a strategically important opportuni-ty, not just for Military Air Solutions, but for BAE Systems as awhole. So for us, this is clearly the most important opportunity fora flying training system. This is the last big one. So it turns out thatwe have a valued proposition, and a track record in delivering quali-ty flying training over three decades, and we have products and thecapability to be just as successful as we have for the last 30 yearsfor the next 30 years,” Reason says.
The focus for BAE Systems at I/ITSEC will not be just the USAFcustomer. “I think it is also, potentially, an opportunity for anyonewho thinks they can add value to our solution. It will give us andthem the opportunity to discuss how we can select partners, andsub-contractors, and teammates, to help us as we develop our USsolution for the US requirement,” Reason concludes.
Thales (Booth 1401) has com-pleted the construction of thetraining building at Royal AirForce (RAF) Brize Norton inthe UK for the FutureStrategic Tanker Aircraft(FSTA) program more than
four months ahead of schedule, according to the company.The facility will be the center of the RAF’s FSTA training activities
over the next 24 years, and includes the simulator hall to housethe full-flight simulator as well as purpose-built classrooms to sup-port the program. FSTA is being run as a private finance initiativeby the AirTanker consortium on behalf of the RAF.
Thales has also confirmed that it is on schedule to start initialFSTA engineering training for the first batch of RAF technicians inJanuary 2011. Initial conversion to type training of aircrew willcommence in mid-2011 from the new training facility, which willhouse a CAA/EASA compliant full-flight simulator (FFS) and a part-task trainer, both of which are in production at Thales’s Crawleyfacility. The FFS is based on the ‘RealitySeven’ flight simulator prod-uct family and is reconfigurable between the civil and military roles.
Victor Chavez, the new CEO of Thales UK, said that, “the FSTAtraining service program continues to achieve all milestones onschedule and the early completion of the training building empha-sizes our commitment in delivering this much-needed capability forthis important program.”
The commencement of this training will mark another key activityand milestone in the FSTA program, which continues to run onschedule. The first two RAF KC30 aircraft are currently based atAirbus Military at Getafe, Madrid.
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Like many other companies in the sector CAE (Booth 447), viewsthe current challenging economic climate as an opportunity to showits military customers how its solutions can help to achieve the effi-ciencies that governments are demanding.
“I think when times are difficult, those are the times to be veryclose to the customer, and understand the challenges that theyhave,” states Martin Gagné, Group President, Military SimulationProducts, Training and Services. “I would say that this is one of thestrengths that we have, plus the proximity to the customer, under-standing their challenges and their needs and being able to discusswith them a potential solution – this is absolutely critical.”
“We tend to stick very close to the customer to understand theirchallenges, then what we do is shape the solution, and bring in thepieces that the customer wants to consider, and very often as youcan imagine, it’s a two-way street -- very often the customer wantsto understand what are these elements of technology that are com-ing in to help them,” he adds.
The company believes its global footprint and years of experiencein the simulation and training world are key discriminators. “Wehave 29 training centers around the world. We train about 75,000crews a year in our facilities, both sides – civil and military, so for
us we want to continue tostrengthen that,” says Gagné.
CAE is keen not to rest onits laurels in the air environ-ment. “On the land side, wedefinitely see more interest. In the past I think a lot of thetraining was taking place inthe actual vehicles,” Gagnéexplains. “Today with the trendto first of all focus the use ofthe equipment on the actualoperational mission, it meanswhat else can you do in termsof keeping military readinesswithout burning the life of theactual equipment?”
“I think you also see otherimportant factors, such as theenvironment, where it isn’t likethe old days where you just hitthe road, or the field. Peopleare very sensitive to all of this,and the military has, obviously,to be responsive to that. Sothe whole environment, forbeing more green, and allthese trends, is very importantand is leading the military,including the land forces, totake a closer look at whatmodeling and simulation canbring to them,” he adds.
As well as looking to become indispensable in the military space,CAE is also looking at some of the important adjacent markets. “I think at the right level of abstraction, we’re very much a companybringing solutions to people making complex decisions in a complexenvironment. Decisions that can have significant repercussionsfrom a monetary point of view, but even more important from ahuman life one,” Gagné insists.
“So, when you start to look at it from that point of view, obviouslywhat we have done in the past working with the military, and work-ing with the airlines, it’s absolutely a great place to be. But equallyimportant today you look at healthcare, and this market is also look-ing for new ways to train the healthcare practioner,” he adds.
“Healthcare is a great place for CAE to bring its technology, andso far it’s a very interesting journey because the people that we talkto in that very domain, right away they recognize CAE, and CAE’sbrand name, as being the guys training airline pilots and militarypersonnel, and right away you come in and people see a companylike ours as being very credible to help them in terms of finding a solution,” Gagné concludes.
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Lockheed Martin is showcasing a number of ‘must see’ events intheir booths (1955, 2154) at I/ITSEC 2010, according to ChesterKennedy, vice president of engineering.
“The first one, ’Prepar3d,’ is a very robust medium fidelity simula-tion platform that has its roots in Microsoft Flight Simulator,” heexplained. “In 2007 Microsoft built on that foundation to developsomething they called ESP and we were one of the launch partnerswith them. ESP started to leverage the massive capability that hadbeen built up around Microsoft Flight Sim in terms of third partyproviders that were developing add-ons.”
Lockheed Martin acquired a license to the intellectual propertywhen Microsoft left the market in 2009.
“Since then we have taken it tremendously further technologicallythan what Microsoft had,” Kennedy said. “We’ve put a distributedinteractive interface into it; We’ve built so many additional featuresinto it that it really is a powerful training technology that enablesyou to get from a single high-end commercial off the shelf PC avery, very realistic simulation.”
“The number of things that we can validly train in this environ-ment is increasing daily, as additional capability gets added on topof this,” he added.
The second ‘must see’ area highlighted by Kennedy is LockheedMartin’s Multi-Function Training Aid (MFTA).
“Our MFTA is really built off Prepar3d,” he said. “And it gives youan example of what you can do when you take that foundation andput it together with some other technology a few years ago, whenwe bought a gaming company. That technology, called AltaSim,allows you to bring a virtual instructor into the game and to be ableto fuse that together with Prepar3d.”
“What you will see on the floor at I/ITSEC is this training aid con-figured for C-130s,” he noted. “And the amount of realism that weare able to generate in that in terms of the glass cockpit, workinginstruments, and positioning of the monitors in the ‘reach zone’ thata pilot would have to be able to see and touch in order to fly theairplane is really impressive. And the other neat thing about it isthat I can transform today’s C-130 to a C-5; I can transform it intoa ground vehicle; I can transform it into most anything you canimagine. And I can do that transformation in a matter of minutes,not days.”
“The third ‘must see’ thing is something we are calling ‘TheHollow Wall,’” he continued. “We will have two compartments – forthe show they will only be separated by a wall but it wouldn’t matterif they were separated by thousands of miles – to create a 3-Dworld where you can have a military sand table between two partici-pants. And those two participants will both be seeing the samething at the same time in a 3-dimensional space. You put the gog-gles on and you feel like there really is just a table standing betweenyou and the other person.”
“We see this as potentially having a lot of opportunities and beingable to do things like helping transitioning forces perform a ‘rightseat ride.’ While the incumbent is still in theater, the new replace-ment commander can come in and get a feel for what life is goingto be like there, and learn about those issues that will shorten theirlearning curve once they get in theater.”
Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) personnel have begun training ontwo F/A-18F Super Hornet Integrated Visual EnvironmentMaintenance Trainers (IVEMT) delivered by the US Naval AviationTraining Systems program office (PMA-205) to RAAF BaseAmberley, Queensland, Australia in October.
The IVEMT is an upgraded version of the US Navy’s VisualEnvironment Maintenance Trainer developed and built by Boeing(Booth 1001) and DiSTI (Booth 1325) specifically for the RAAF. TheIVEMT includes cockpit and instructor operator stations, as well asstudent/aircraft interface trainer stations and a cockpit/trainerequipment station. It is a 3-D visual trainer that allows military per-sonnel to virtually navigate through multiple aircraft systems. It pro-vides maintainers training on ground operation, maintenance, andtesting. It also offers troubleshooting procedures for the SuperHornet aircraft including avionics, environmental control, electrical,
flight control, fuel, engines, landing gear, and hydraulic systems.Australia has ordered 24 Boeing F/A-18Fs to provide an interim
strike capability until the introduction of the F-35 Joint StrikeFighter. Two batches totaling 11 aircraft have been delivered toRAAF Base Amberley since March 2010 and the remaining aircraftwill progressively arrive through 2011.
RAAF Receives F/A-18FMaintenance Trainers
One of two Australian Super Hornet Integrated Visual Environment MaintenanceTrainers installed at Amberley Air Force Base, Australia in October.
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The Training & Simulation division of Germany’s Krauss-MaffeiWegmann (KMW) (Booth 1209) has been contracted by theNorwegian Army to deliver its BATSIM Classroom for the Leopard 2tank. The system runs on COTS desktop computers to provide stateof the art combat training on a serious games level with a ‘maxi-mum of realism’.
“This is a milestone in military simulation because with the BAT-SIM Classroom, a desktop simulation system is available whichcombines KMW’s expertise as a leading manufacturer of main bat-tle tanks and of a proven simulation framework fielded in manyarmies worldwide,” said Dr. Dirk Schmidt, Senior Vice President,Training & Simulation, for KMW. “Our customers will appreciate theplug and play networking of our new BATSIM Classroom with theirexisting high-end simulators”.
The training environment is tailored for the KMW Leopard 2 withphysical replication of control elements and validated vehicle dynamics,vehicle logic and simulation of the fire control system, but the systemcan easily be adapted to combat vehicles from other manufacturers.
The company notes that in the past, serious games largely failedto simulate realistic vulnerability and damage models, and lackedthe sophistication to reproduce the operational characteristics ofspecific vehicles. Now ‘the quantum leap of commercial computerand graphic board development’ has enabled KMW Training &Simulation to condense its combat simulation software to fit and
run on a single COTS desktop PC. The BATSIM Classroom has been developed in close cooperation
with experienced tank training experts to match their specificrequirements. It features: • a powerful integrated man machine interface for instructors
and trainees;• instructor independent training which allows trainees to progress
at their own pace;• very flexible and intelligent computer generated forces suitable
for a full range of scenarios, including for MOUT operations;• KMW’s COTS MilCIG visual system; • a dynamic high quality and high fidelity database;• dynamic objects in high detail and large variety;• and, networking with other simulation systems from KMW or
other simulators supporting the DIS/HLA interface. The Norwegian Army will receive the simulators in 2011.
KMW to Supply Leopard 2Training System to Norway
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Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS) (Booth 1046) is usingI/ITSEC 2010 to introduce its web browser-based version of theNexus virtual world.
Nexus is a ‘virtual world’ developed for government that sup-ports training and collaboration for the National Guard Bureau,Defense Acquisition University (DAU), Joint Forces Command,NATO, Department of Homeland Security, and other governmentstakeholders.
Also called ‘Nexus Web,’ it is a collaborative virtual world thatstreams high fidelity 3D environments to a user’s browser. Userssimply log in to the Nexus Web Portal to come together in a virtu-al environment for meetings, classroom training, or immersiverole-based training.
Nexus Web boasts a feature set that includes: event/classscheduling and editing; document sharing; venue selection; collabo-
rative whiteboard; chat and VOIP with breakout groups; automatedor facilitated evaluations; virtual PC hosting for shared desktops,and the ability to link to third-party sites.
ECS developed Nexus Web under contract with the US ArmySimulation and Training Technology Center (STTC) for the DAU toeducate and train over 230,000 (50,000 classroom and another180,000 on-line) students a year.
ECS will be working closely with DAU instructors to begin class-room training in the January 2011 timeframe.
“DAU saw the potential, took the lead, and invested into a NexusWeb capability,” observed Dr. Chris Hardy, Director of the GlobalLearning Technology Center for DAU. “We feel that this technologywill revolutionize how we educate and train our students globally byoffering an alternative delivery to both classroom and distancelearning training.”
ECS Introduces ‘Nexus Web’
“What we are showing at I/ITSEC this year is representative of fullspectrum training solutions that we can bring to the warfighteracross air, land, and sea applications,” explains Dean Queathem,manager of Business Development for Boeing’s Training Systemsand Services (Booth 1001). “And we bring that full spectrum capa-bility whether it be computer based training all the way up to fullsimulator training.”
As an example, he offered Boeing’s Constant Resolution VisualSystem (CRVS).
“This is a new state-of-the-art technology visual system for singleeyepoint simulators,” he said. “We have had it at I/ITSEC before, butit was still in various stages of development. We are under contractnow and we started production. So what we are representing thisyear is the capability to provide a full 360 degree visual system thatoffers much higher acuity and fidelity than systems in the past.”
“Constant resolution means that the targets you see are availablethroughout the entire field of view with the same acuity,” he contin-ued. “Before, in older systems, you only got that acuity at single eye-points. Also, from the cost effectiveness standpoint, the uniquedesign uses far fewer projectors than previous designs on the mar-ket today. So you get the benefit of the higher performance systemin a system that is less expensive because of the way it is designed.”
The Boeing Company booth will also include two DeployableMission Rehearsal Trainers (DMRT).
“These are new, F-18 training devices to be deployed on aircraftcarriers,” Queathem said. “They can be packaged up, carriedaboard, and moved around the ship. They’re not full capabilityweapons trainers but they are mission rehearsal trainers that canbe networked together – as they will be on the I/ITSEC floor. Wehave talked about this in the past but in terms of demonstratingthem in final form that will be new this year.”
Another new exhibit at I/ITSEC 2010 reflects Boeing’s participa-tion in a competition for a new U.S. Navy ‘landing craft’ projectcalled Ship-to-Shore Connector.
“Our division will provide the full motion simulator trainer for thatsystem,” he said. “So what you have in our booth is a virtual train-
ing demonstrator, meant for two purposes: to show folks a little bitabout our Ship-to-Shore Connector solution, in terms of the controlstation; and also to demonstrate the type of training that could beprovided for this new landing craft once it goes into production.”
“We’ve also moved into a new area of ground forces training;how forces train in a more immersive, more realistic manner; how
to do it virtually versus livetraining; how to take costout; and how to possibly pro-vide experiences that youcan’t provide in a live situa-tion,” he said.
“So we have come up withwhat we call our IntegratedImmersive TrainingEnvironment (I2TE),” henoted. “And a month and ahalf ago we performed a twoday demonstration at FortLeonard Wood, Missouri,involving role players,avatars, control room, andsound effects.”
A centerpiece of the I2TE capability that will also be on display inthe booth is called a ‘Virtual Mission Board,’ that Queathemdescribed as an “interactive device, touch screen controllable, thatprovides for mission planning and rehearsal, rehearsal control,exercise control, and after action review.”
“We will have that on display running, along with video depictionsfrom our Fort Leonard Wood demonstration,” he said.
Overlaying all of the other display elements will be kiosks highlight-ing a range of related technology advances.
Although most of the demonstrations will be ongoing throughoutthe show, CRVS will be in an enclosed room, allowing I/ITSEC 2010attendees to stop by and sign up for specific demonstration time slots.
Boeing Highlights Full Spectrum Training Solutions
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Warfighers’ Corner is always a popular event at I/ITSEC, providingan opportunity for industry representatives and other attendees tohear first hand accounts from servicemen and women about theirexperiences in Afghanistan, Iraq and other Overseas ContingencyOperations. A new addition this year will be a representative fromthe US Coast Guard speaking on Thursday.
Speakers at Monday’s session, which willlast from1500-1630 at Booth 685, are:
US Army SSGT Christopher Stroklund(pictured right) currently serves with the1st Battalion (Airborne), 507th InfantryRegiment, which has the responsibility ofconducting the US Army Airborne School atFort Benning, Georgia. He has served toursin both Afghanistan and Iraq.
US Air Force Maj Doug Witmer (pictured above) is Chief ofWing Scheduling for the 355th Fighter Wing at Davis-Monthan AirForce Base, Arizona. He is responsible for managing Air CombatCommand’s largest flying hour program supporting three A-10 fight-
er squadrons andexceeding 22,000 flighthours annually. Witmerhas flown numerouscombat missions withover 700 A-10 hours insupport of OperationEnduring Freedom.
US Navy LCDRJason Colebank servedin Iraq from March to December 2009 as an Electronic WarfareOfficer assigned to the Joint CREW Composite Squadron One,Multi-National Corps-Iraq.
US Marine Corps Capt Austin Adams is the Project Officer forCombat Vehicle Training Systems, at Program Manager TrainingSystems, which provides simulated gunnery training and tacticaltraining for the M1A1, LAV, and AAV platforms. He recentlyreturned from Afghanistan as the Marine Corps Systems CommandLiaison Officer to the Marine Expeditionary Brigade – Afghanistan.
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effects simulators. The new code, which has already been select-ed by the Dutch and German armies, strongly improves the abili-ty to conduct multinational exercises. An Interoperability UserCommunity (IUC), including Austria, Finland, Germany, theNetherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK, has been participat-ing in the development of the OSAG 2.0 Standard in order toencourage training between member states. Saab will deliverOSAG 2.0 during 2011 to the German Army‘s training center inAltmark, where both the Austrian and Netherlands armies regu-larly train. Benefits of OSAG 2.0 include: defined ammunitionlethality and engagement effects, which are used between simu-lators from different countries; OSAG 2.0 ammunition types cov-ering all IUC existing and planned weapons types which cover theneeds of possible new IUC countries; improved realism, such asthe effects of air burst ammunition; and an increase in the maxi-mum number of exercise participants.
Vcom3D Demonstrates Military Mobile AppsVcom3D (Booth 747), a leading provider of immersive game-based solutions for training and mission rehearsal applications,will be demonstrating a range of Military Mobile Apps at I/ITSEC2010. Examples include the company’s Vcommunicator Mobilelanguage and culture mission aid and JKO-2-Go with learningmanagement system integration via Apple and Android devices,communicating avatars, and the company’s innovative methodolo-gy that allows rapid development for many game engines anddelivery on multiple platforms.
Concurrent Showcases Real-Time Simulation TechnologyConcurrent Computer Corporation (Booth 1815) will be show-casing several recent advances in real-time simulation and train-ing technology at I/ITSEC 2010. Company representatives pointto exhibit highlights including: ImaGen visual servers in action,running the latest 3D ImaGen visualization software – PresagisVega Prime, Diamond Visionics GenesisRX and SAABN renderingsoftware; SIMulation Workbench modeling software, allowingeasy execution of dynamic models built using MathWorks MATLAB/Simulink; RedHawk real-time Linux with enhancedCUDA, with 20 microsecond real-time response for time-criticaltasks in CUDA-based applications; and NightStar debugging andanalysis tools that provide unprecedented insight into complextime-critical applications.
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Atlantis to Provide CH-148 Training Team
Atlantis Systems (Booth 2640) is to provide training support forthe Canadian Forces’ Maritime Helicopter Project. SikorskyHelicopters delivered the first of 28 CH-148 Cyclone helicoptersearlier this month in an interim configuration.
Atlantis’ subsidiary Atlantis Systems Eduplus of Dartmouth,Nova Scotia, signed a contract with Sikorsky Aerospace Servicesin October to provide 21 instructors, simulator operators andtraining program support personnel to staff the MaritimeHelicopter Training Center at Canadian Forces Base Shearwater,Nova Scotia. The MHTS consists of: two Operational MissionSimulators, each consisting of an integrated Flight Simulator builtby Rockwell Collins and Mission Simulator built by GeneralDynamics Canada; one Mission Procedures Trainer built by GDCanada; one Aircraft Maintenance Trainer (AMT) consisting of anAMT (Upper) built by Rockwell Collins and an AMT (Lower) builtby GD Canada; three Engine Change Unit Part Task Trainers(PTTs) built by Rockwell Collins; one Confined Spaces PTT andone Hoist Procedures PTT, both built by Rockwell Collins; and twoWeapons Load PTTs built by GD Canada.
USN Awards Research Contract to Renaissance ScienceRenaissance Science, Chandler, Arizona, has been awarded a$9,750,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for theresearch and development of virtual environment technologies insupport of the US Navy’s simulation and training requirements,including analyses, studies and engineering in virtual syntheticenvironments. Work will be evenly split between the company’sfacilities in Chandler and Orlando, FL, and is expected to be com-pleted in November 2015. Contract funds totaling $254,272 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval AirWarfare Center Training Systems Division (Booth 2144) awarded the contract.
Austria Selects Saab OSAG 2.0 for Live Training Systems The Austrian Army recently awarded Saab (Booth 1624) a con-tract to provide the internationally interoperable optical codeOSAG 2.0 for use by its family of Saab DuSim direct fire weapon
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