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Primary US Air Force themes at I/ITSEC 2013 will include a focus on assuring service readiness through the application of blended Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) technologies.

One of the key Air Force organizations supporting this “Readi-ness Through LVC” vision is the Air Force Agency for Modeling and Simulation (AFAMS), a field operating agency of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Plans and Requirements, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force. The agency is located in Orlando’s Central Florida Research Park, together with other Department of Defense, Joint Service, contractor, and educational organizations focused on model-ing and simulation. AFAMS proximity to these other agencies offers the Air Force the maximum leverage and advantage of the develop-ing programs and technologies to enhance the Air Force’s ability to provide ready forces.

As outlined by AFAMS representatives, positioning the United States Air Force for future service to its country and allies has caused senior leadership to focus on the viability of current training regimens/programs/processes to adequately fulfill service readi-ness requirements. The result has been a growing service embrace of LVC technologies.

The last several years have shown that US Air Force organizations and officials are resolute in their collective determination and vision to implement more LVC platforms and robust, concurrent simulators,

supported in part by two underlying factors: fast moving technologi-cal improvements – aircraft as well as simulator; and the need for increased fiscal stewardship due to extreme fiscal constraints.

The Air Force is presently investigating enterprise level LVC integration as a potential solution to those current challenges while simultaneously reducing “stove-piped” operations across the entire mission spectrum.

Although much of that examination is still ongoing, the service has made great strides in enhancing the readiness of its airmen and allies across the entire mission spectrum through its LVC implemen-tation across myriad programs.

A few of the many global implementation examples include: the Distributed Mission Operations Center (DMOC), Distributed Mission Operations Center-Space (DMOC-S), Distributed Mission Operations Center – Cyber (DMOC-C), the Air National Guard’s Distributed Train-ing Operations Center (DTOC), Pacific Air Force/Korea Air Simula-tion Center (KASC), and US Air Force Europe/Air Force Africa’s Warrior Preparation Center (WPC), a “frontier” Distributed Training Center that continues to forge critical paths toward integrated com-bat training with coalition partners.

As each of these success stories continues to unfold, AFAMS has also embarked on a “mission,” referred to as the Air Force Continuous Operational Training Environment (AFCOTE), which is

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Robb Emphasizes NTSA CommitmentThe National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA) is working to ensure that I/ITSEC 2013 provides valuable opportunities for exhibitors and attendees alike.

“We’ve been pushing the idea that efficient and effective training support is critical in declin-ing budget environments,” observed RADM James Robb, USN (Ret.), President, NTSA. Speaking to the Show Daily, Robb asserted that the government should be investing in the tech-nologies underlying future training effectiveness.

“Because of the sequestration making horizontal cuts to every line it’s hard to get targeted investments in one line where it might rightly be a good strategy,” he said. “That’s one of the things we’re working on with the Congress and over in the Pentagon; discussing the negative effects of the horizontal cutting that’s going on.”

Robb said that I/ITSEC 2013 emphasis has been placed on expansion of industry applications as well as expanding international market opportunities.

“What we’re trying to do with expanding industry applications is to bring a wider diversity of companies that are involved with model-ing and simulation and training systems,” he noted. “We have found that a lot of our industry partners are interested in expanding their own business outside of defense. Areas like transportation, mining, manufacturing, and health care provide excellent examples. So it is

consistent with the mission of NTSA to support our industry part-ners and try to reflect that growing interest on the floor.”

“The second part of what we’re trying to do is expand the interna-tional presence on the floor, because many of our industry partner strategies hope to offset domestic reduction in business opportuni-ties with increased international sales.”

In addition to supporting industry interests, Robb said that the NTSA team is focused on helping attendees get the best value from their experience here.

“It takes a little bit of planning to think about what they want to get out of the conference and exhibition,” he said. “Then they need to work at scheduling themselves through a systematic approach to getting to all their goals.”

In his message to exhibitors, Robb acknowledged that companies are increasingly concerned over whether their potential government customers will be able to gain approvals to attend conferences, exhibitions and tradeshows.

“But the message to I/ITSEC exhibitors is that we are committed to strategies that will ensure government attendance,” he said. One demonstration of that can be seen in the fact that this year we let all of the government in at no charge. A second thing we are doing to a small degree this year is actually paying for some expenses through a ‘gifting process’ with the government.”

“We are committed to ensuring that the government presence at I/ITSEC is robust,” he concluded. “That’s a key message for us with the exhibitors and it clearly shows our dedication to making I/ITSEC continue to work for the long run.”

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analogous to the Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE).

Air Force leadership firmly believes that AFCOTE, as it matures, will bring much value across a broad spectrum of the Air Force’s training requirements and readi-ness enhancement efforts. As part of the Air Force’s ongoing emphasis on “Readiness Through LVC,” AFCOTE will initially focus on merging together currently disparate networks into a singular network solution for simulation environments.

The primary driver for AFCOTE Initial Op-erational Capability (IOC) is the urgent need for Live, Virtual, Constructive-Operational Training (LVC-OT) efficiencies, based on the

realities of post-war budget con-straints and the increasing need for LVC-OT to support Air Force funded active duty training and readiness requirements.

AFAMS representatives note that the component review sets the cornerstone for the Air Force portion of the DoD Joint Requirements Over-sight Council’s Analysis of Alterna-tives (AoA) effort, an effort in which the Air Force has been designated as the lead service, but does not solve the main components of the AoA.

While the AFCOTE effort will use exist-ing systems and solutions, the AoA could

potentially institute new or emerging solutions, thus impacting and ben-efitting the AFCOTE. As an example, participants note that a CDIS solu-tion for AFCOTE would be utilization of defined rule sets using Radiant Mercury – while the AoA effort might identify a government-owned CDIS solution with core communities developing rule sets for common

use. In addition, AFCOTE is focused specifi-cally for the Air Force, while the AoA is a Joint Service effort pushing for com-monality from a Joint perspective.

Ultimately the Air Force’s, and specifically AFAMS’, goal will be to capture multiple LVC integration efforts and begin to establish unity of effort both throughout the Air Force and with our Joint and International partners to enhance readiness, training, and prepara-tion across the entire mission spectrum.

Tech Valley Technologies, Inc. (TVT) [Booth 1284], a veteran owned small business incorporated in 2003, is using the I/ITSEC 2013 venue to highlight the “training reality” aspects of its realistic thermal signature targets that closely mimic human body temperatures.

The company has been working with the U.S. Army, National Guard, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marines, U.S. Department of Energy (nuclear facilities) and other customers since 2008, which is when TVT first went into production with its thermal targets.

The company’s current product line includes: Gradient Thermal Targets, which use gradient thermal technology to generate precise temperature differentials that accurately represent the thermal sig-nature of virtually any simulated threat; the Human Interactive Target System (HITS), a programmable humanoid target system that meets current and emerging U.S. military training requirements, and can discriminate between lethal and nonlethal hits while presenting user defined behaviors; and the Urban Target System (UTS), a program-mable contact-based target scoring system for use with a variety of non-lethal munitions that accurately scores the Location-of-Hit and differentiates between mortal and non-mortal hits, while presenting user defined behaviors commensurate with the engagement results.

Representative examples of target features incorporated in the UTS design include: instant response, with all hits scored as either lethal or non-lethal; hits zones that can be preprogrammed with an adjustable range of 1-99 and can discriminate between lethal and non-lethal hits; and custom graphic overlays with friend/foe, military and domestic images.

Wargaming experts at NSC (Booth 2581) will provide high level support to NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) training though the provision of synthetic eyes in the sky.

The simulation specialists will use the latest in game-based technology to replicate the vital intelligence feeds provided by air and unmanned air vehicles to ARRC headquarters staff. The real-time, full-motion video produced by NSC’s virtual manned and unmanned aircraft will be generated by personnel via air system stations comprising two screens – one displaying the view from the airframe’s electro-optical and infrared cam-era and the other a geographical information system. Opera-tors can use the latter to track the location of the air system and direction of its camera and to plot its course.

Distributed remote viewing terminals will allow users across multiple headquarters to view one or more feeds simultane-ously by selecting from the list available. NSC’s expertise in the utilisation of Virtual Battlespace 2 will enable ARRC to conduct its synthetic surveillance sorties above large, customisable 3D terrains and deliver authentic training without the significant expense of scrambling real aircraft. The British Army-led ARRC is headquartered at Imjin Barracks, outside Gloucester in England and includes personnel from 17 NATO nations.

“Over the last three years we have provided ISTAR synthetic support to a number of British Army exercises and we look forward to assisting the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in deliver-ing effective and value-for-money training to its personnel,” said Chris Williams, head of Simulation at NSC.

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Elbit Training Center for Israeli F-16s OperationalElbit Systems has announced that the Mission Training Center (MTC) to train Israeli Air Force pilots to fly Lockheed Martin F-16C/D and F-16I fighters is now operational. The MTC is operated through a private finance initiative with Elbit Systems performing the instruc-tion, operation and maintenance services.

At the core of the MTC is a unique Mission Training system that enables coordinated training between the various trainees, both within the IAF and at an interoperable strategic level. It is based on Elbit’s One Sim infrastructure that incorporates an advanced arena generator for realistic virtual environments that are as close to reality as possible, as well as a unique infrastructure that supports the demanding environment used in the MTC. The MTC brings an advanced training capability that was not available to the IAF in the past. The system enables training in various mission scenarios in dif-ferent theaters of operation with the relevant threat environment for each theater. IAF teams are able to train in two-, four- and eight-air-

craft formations. Instructors can take an active part in each training session by flying adversary aircraft. The system enables the pilots to train together with operational controllers from various IAF control units. The pilots and controllers receive the mission orders from the MTC team, plan together and afterwards execute the mission with each member of the team training in an operational role.

“The MTC system was developed in line with the modern combat doctrine which calls for real time fully integrated operation of mul-tiple forces and thus requires an interoperable training solution,” said Elbit Systems Aerospace Division’s General Manager Yoram Shmuely. “We’re very proud of the MTC team and their significant ef-fort invested to transition the MTC to the operational phase for our customer. This successful transition attests to our customer’s trust in Elbit Systems’ solutions and expertise, combining both a techno-logical edge and the understanding of the customer’s unique needs, and further demonstrates and strengthens our position as world leaders in the field of advanced tactical training solutions.”

Connect the dots with • The Evolution of Interoperability Tuesday, December 3, 10:30am - 12:00pm; Rosen Centre, Salon 1 This informational seminar, presented by Felix Rodriguez, VT MÄK’s Link Team Lead and interoperability expert, will enumerate the current status of the major interoperability standards in our industry and what they’ll look like moving forward.

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• GEOINT at I/ITSEC Wednesday, December 4, 1:00pm-3:00pm; Orange County Convention Center, Warfighters’ Corner, Booth #2781 Join MÄK and members of the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) Modeling and Simulation Working Group and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as they showcase their ongoing strategic partnership to advance the use of agile geospatial data sharing and to demonstrate the benefits to both the M&S and GEOINT communities.

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“The good news for simulation and train-ing is we’re part of a market segment that is seen as offering a solution to budget challenges – the simple fact is that it’s much more economi-cal to train in simula-tors than it is in the actual platform”, CAE’s Gene Colabatistto Group President, Mili-tary Products, Training & Services, told the

Show Daily. “So the future of modeling and simulation is bright, and the opportunities presented to us in the US and globally look quite good. You can put CAE [Booth 1433] firm-ly in the camp that believes the increased and more efficient use of simulation is part of the solution to lowering costs without sacrificing readiness or capability.”

“We apply M&S in all the major domains: air, land, maritime and critical infrastruc-

ture. Most know CAE because of our estab-lished position in the air domain, and flight simulation will continue to be our core busi-ness over the next five years and beyond. You will, however, see CAE expand and grow our business in near adjacencies such as land, maritime and critical infrastructure.”

“Specifically in the military market, and more specifically in our core business of virtual aviation training, we see the opportu-nity to grow because of the simple fact that militaries are changing the way they train, and perhaps more importantly, are chang-ing the balance of how they plan to train in the future. Militaries around the world, and certainly in the US, have acknowledged the need for an increased use of virtual training, and you can see that on new platforms such as the P-8 and F-35. The training programs for those platforms involve significantly more simulation-based training than the aircraft they are replacing.”

“Simulation-based training is ideal for any organization needing to analyze, prepare, train and then make decisions in mission-critical environments where’s there is a high consequence of failure. In the critical infrastructure domain we are getting a lot of traction, particularly in Asia. We are also starting to see pull through as customers in the healthcare and disaster management sectors see the power of our simulation-based solutions.”

“In Brunei, for example, the CAE Bru-nei Multi-Purpose Training Centre is being developed as a learning hub for Brunei and other ASEAN nations. The CAE Brunei MPTC is already under contract to provide flight training for several platforms, and this week during the BRIDEX show in Brunei we will be announcing a comprehensive emergency management training program for the MPTC.”

“In some markets – the US is one – acquisition regulations make it very difficult to enter into long-term training services con-tracts that include the acquisition of simula-tors. The real question, however, should be – what’s the best way for the military services to get the required training, keep technology current, maintain readiness, and at the same time reduce financial risks and save money in a tight budget environment.”

“There are some great examples of long-term services contracts working well in other

countries, enabling industry to make up-front investments and become more of a risk-shar-ing partner with the government. For example, we have a program with the Royal Air Force in the UK where under a Private Finance Initiative, we invested to construct a helicopter training center at RAF Benson for the RAF’s support helicopters

including the training center itself, six simula-tors, classroom ground school – basically, a turnkey training operation. We would like the US and other countries to at least be able to consider this sort of approach to training. We believe long-term training services contracts could be a way to save money, decrease risk, secure investment and contribute to en-hanced training effectiveness.”

Colabatistto discussed the interest in the DSE which CAE introduced at I/ITSEC 2012. Basically, DSE is an architecture and suite of software and tools to help make the synthetic environment more like reality, and we are now integrating DSE into our baseline offerings. DSE is all about the world outside the cockpit or vehicle – it is a syn-thetic environment that evolves in real-time and importantly, without human intervention. DSE provides an integrated and immersive environment, which is something we believe will be increasingly important as govern-ments and defense forces are required and attempt to do more in a virtual world.”

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At I/ITSEC CAE is highlighting:

• CAE’s Dynamic Synthetic Environment (DSE), an integrated solution combining an architecture based on the shared, public common database (CDB) speci-fication;

• The T-6C mission procedures trainer which is part of CAE’s comprehensive ground-based training system for both the Beechcraft T-6C trainer aircraft and Beechcraft AT-6 light attack aircraft;

• Solutions for healthcare including the Caesar trauma patient simulator;

• Solutions for critical infrastructure/emergency management, including Pre-sagis software tools and CAE’s Integrat-ed Emergency Management Systems;

• A comprehensive constructive simulation for training and wargaming combines Rolland & Associate’s Joint Theatre-Level Simulation with CAE’s GEfechts-Simulation System construc-tive simulation system and is integrated using the Joint Multi-Resolution Model (JMRM).

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The SIM KIUG training center in Walenstadt, Switzerland will enable the army to train up to battalion level in one of the world’s most advanced live MOUT facilities. RUAG (Booth 1481) has been working since 2008 to develop the facility, and company technicians and other support staff will remain at Walenstadt to operate and main-tain the facility.

The MOUT facility is centered on a mock town, known as Aeuli, which consists of 23 buildings equipped with over 1,000 devices used to control and display the current status of every feature in the building. These features include: windows, doors, staircases, and breach points. Having these features controlled allows their usable status to change during the course of the training. RUAG uses pneu-matics, remote locks, barriers and lights to represent the status of all the features in the buildings. According to RUAG, this makes trainees recognize events around them and think on their feet, thus ‘dramatically’ improving the effectiveness of the training.

Footage of the training within Aeuli is captured by 400 cameras capable of recording both inside and outside the buildings day and night. Nearly 800 locating sensors are able to track and accurately record the movements of all participants in an exercise, to an ac-curacy of 0.5 m. The whole facility is linked in a fiber optic network

which ensures quick and reliable relay of information for after action reviews (AAR).

RUAG received the award for ‘Best Train-ing Programme’ in the 2013 New Economy Defence Awards, which recognised the company’s achieve-ments – especially

the Gladiator Man Worn Unit for live-action training. The Gladiator comprises a helmet unit, an integrated harness unit and a laser unit which enable fire and movement training for individual soldiers through to complete brigades. Deployable in both open and MOUT environments the system caters for a wide range of weapons and operates in conjunction with vehicles. Gladiator incorporates both one-way and two-way laser technology which is able to transmit the ballistic data of the weapon to improve realism.

The flexible approach to requirements continues throughout the additional features of the system, allowing users to choose from a variety of options including: positioning information, medical support, wound models and graphical hit representation.

RUAG has expanded its capabilities with the incorporation of GAVAP, a specialist in simulation and training systems, into RUAG Holding France SAS on 30 October 2013. RUAG and SME GAVAP have maintained a strategic partnership in the virtual and live simulation areas since 2003. The acquisition will secure the contin-ued existence of the French company, with 70 employees. Urs Breit-meier, CEO of RUAG said: “The acquisition of GAVAP means that our customers can obtain the full range of services from a single source in the future. It also gives us the potential for growth in the medium and long term.”

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Rheinmetall Defence Electronics’ Simulation and Training Division (Booth 2601) is Europe’s second-largest simulation and training com-pany and is continuing to expand with simulators in service in more than 35 countries.

Rheinmetall is displaying components from its LEGATUS live com-bat simulation system family, including the latest laser engagement simulators which will be used at the new $135+ million training center which it is building for the Russian Army at Mulino. When

completed in 2014, the 500 sq km center will be able to train 30,000 troops at up to brigade level each year. Every participant in an exercise from individual soldiers to tanks, is equipped with laser sensors, transmitters and compact data transmission devices. These de-vices feature a GPS satellite re-ceiver and constantly transmit

information concerning the position and status of every participant to the exercise control cell. When training for military operations in urban terrain, special sensors track the position of soldiers when they are inside buildings. The effects of heavy weapons fire on build-ings and the troops inside them can also be simulated.

Mobile video teams accompany the participating units, transmit-ting imagery back to headquarters in real time. There, the complete array of data from an exercise flows together, including all voice transmissions. The position and status of all exercise participants are depicted on workstation computer monitors and large screens on a 2D/3D situation map, including video recording in real time. All events are electronically recorded and processed for subsequent after-action review in either a fixed-position auditorium or in mobile facilities on the training area. Rheinmetall’s LEGATUS can be tailored to meet the specific requirements of customers.

Visitors to the stand can examine the Leopard Gunnery Skills Trainer (LGST) similar to the six systems accepted by the Canadian Army at the end of October 2013. Canada has ordered 18 LGSTs and two Driver Station Simulators (DSS) to support training on its Leopard 2A4M CAN tanks which are being moderned by Rhein-metall Canada. A further six LGSTs will be commissioned early this month and the final six will be delivered in February.

The LGSTs are indoor, self-contained, standalone systems for training crew commanders, gunners and loaders and provide a network capability to enable tactical training at platoon level with at least six simulators. The LGSTs are also equipped with a driver sta-tion to allow the driver to take part in tactical training. The DSS fea-tures an instructor’s console mounted behind the part task trainer which allows the instructor to control the trainee’s activities in the driver’s station. Both simulators feature Rheinmetall’s TacSi Re-loaded technology which brings together the company’s full-fledged Computer Generated Forces software with superb visualization from commercially available game engine technology.

On 31 October Rheinmetall delivered a Submarine Command Team Trainer (SCTT) for the U 214 Class submarine to the Republic of Korea Navy. South Korea operates three U 214s, and a second batch of six is under construction. The SCTT U 214 RoKN consists

of a mock-up periscope and Navigation Command Console, a mock-up Combat Information Center as well as instructor and debriefing equipment, including an auditorium. The system uses Rheinmetall’s Advanced Naval Synthetic Environment for generating scenarios, joint databases and networking. It can simulate, emulate or stimu-late sonar, command and control, and effector systems of various makes. The SCTT can be networked with other simulators, such as submarine control simulators, anti-submarine warfare simulators and naval tactical trainers.

Rheinmetall recently received a contract to develop an NH90 cockpit trainer for use at the German Air Force Technical School 3 in Fassberg. The complete system consists of a trainer workstation and a replica cockpit identical to the current NH90 helicopter IOC+ configuration plus the associated computer hardware. The system is based on Rheinmetall’s Asterion modular cockpit simulation. The initial phase of the project is to be completed by mid-2014 with an option to include additional modules and training systems.

The Institute of Aviation Systems Engineering at the German Avia-tion and Space Centre (DLR) has been using its new AVES air vehicle simulator, equipped with the latest Rheinmetall simulation technol-ogy, at its Braunschweig site since July. Using AVES, engineers can evaluate the experimental modification of existing aircraft and also examine the flight characteristics of futuristic aircraft concepts. It features dynamic and static simulators, with an interchangeable exact replica of the cockpit of an Airbus A320 or Eurocopter EC-135 helicopter installed in between. The main simulator is equipped

with an electrically powered movement system, resulting in a highly authentic flight simulation experience with a 240° view from the cockpit. The simulator replicates movement sequences such as the landing bump, turbulence and crosswinds in a very realistic way. A fixed installation simulator with a movement motor is available for flight simulations that do not require manoeuvring. A cluster of 60 computers supplies each of the 15 LED projectors in the simulators, controlling the electrical movement systems with extreme precision.

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Brazilian Army Puts Training to the Sword MASA has announced that its Sword constructive simulation software is now in service with the Brazilian Army, which will use the system to train its command staff at battalion, brigade, division and army levels.

At I/ITSEC 2013, the company will show-case the capabilities of the system, which is known as Combater in Brazilian service, with representatives from the simulation division of the Brazilian Army’s Comando de Opera-ções Terrestres (COTER) at the show to brief on how the system has been adopted by the service.

Sword was selected by the Brazilian Army in May through a contract award to Decatron.

In November, the Brazilian Army carried out the first large-scale command staff train-ing exercise at brigade level using Combater.

Over a period of three weeks at the army’s Santa Maria Command Staff Training

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“Thanks to Sword’s flexibility and custom-ization capability, we are already running our first training exercise, with a custom prod-uct, just six months after the project was launched,” said Lt Col Sergio Martins Rocha.

“Not only has the customization process allowed the adaptation of SWORD to the Brazilian Army’s unique doctrine – replac-ing generic content with personalized units, equipment and missions relevant to the Brazilian Army – but it has also enabled us to deploy the software in a flexible manner on laptops in order to prepare scenarios offline.”

Lt Col Rocha added that based on the results of the exercise, the army believes it can now reduce the personnel required to provide brigade-level training by 30%.

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Third Time Still the Charm for Heartwood

Saab Offers Cohesive Training SolutionSaab Defense and Security (Booth 1939) is using the I/ITSEC 2013 venue for the first ever display of its new Part Task Trainer (PPT) demonstrator simulating a generic Commander and Gunner station mounted on a three degrees of freedom motion system. The PPT is part of Saab’s Amoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV) training system.

The system is purpose-designed for indi-vidual and collective training of commanders, gunners and drivers, and enables a learning continuum from basic drills up to the transition to limited confirmatory live fire. The system measures a broad range of Key Performance Indicators enabling a training establishment to make informed decisions regarding training progress and also deliver remedial training at the point of need; before minor issues become ingrained training shortcomings that effect more complex scenarios.

“With the need for modularity and open architecture required by most customers to-day, we have looked at a system that can be assembled to train either individuals or crews by rearranging the parts,” explained Pat Wells, program representative at Saab. “So in

reality you could take off the handgrips of, for example, a Bradley, and put on the handgrips of an M1 Abrams.

“We have put a lot of effort into this because we have found that we have been delivering bits of training solutions around the world to different customers,” he added. “And what we are showing here is that we can bring those pieces together to deliver one integrated cohesive solution that can take a raw recruit – gunner, commander, driver – and be able to train them up to pre-deploy-ment collective training elements.

Saab’s development and integration efforts on the new platform reflect the company’s down-selection as one of five companies being pushed forward for the UK Ministry of Defence Warrior CSP [Capability Sustainment Program] Training Delivery Program. With a total budget of £80-100 million, it is expected that the “invitation to tender” on the training element will be released in mid-2014 with re-sponses required around the end of next year.

“The delivery for the training part of the Warrior program is around 2018 or 2019 for full capability,” Wells said. With the train-

ing capability expected to remain in service beyond 2030, he added that the most sig-nificant challenges involve software obsoles-cence and that the company is still working on its software strategy.

“Our key message is about cohesive train-ing,” he concluded. “Saab is well known for quality in live fire training and in laser training. We have now added a virtual capability, posi-tioning us to address the full training cycle.”

After two years of sharing an exhibit with other companies, 2013 marks the third year that Heartwood Inc. [Booth 1807] is exhibiting on its own at I/ITSEC. With a company growth of “approximately 130 percent” over the past year, the company is highlighting its capabili-ties to deliver 3D operator and maintenance training on a range of mobile and laptop platforms.

“We have specific I/ITSEC successes that have gone from a ‘hello’ at the booth to a purchase order to an awesome customer testimonial of our capabilities,” observed Raj Raheja, Heartwood CEO and co-founder. “In fact, I can point to two recent successes that actually started at I/ITSEC and have now come full circle.”

“Last year we met with Oshkosh here at the show,” offered Neil Wadhawan, Heartwood VP of marketing and co-founder. “We had some great conversations here and we were under contract with them by March.”

“The work involves their HEMTT [Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck] platform. We started with a pilot program for operator and

maintenance training and now it is going to be a series of lessons,” Raheja added.

“Three years ago we would hear, ‘Do you also do mobile applica-tions? I think I might need that someday,’” he explained. “Now the conversation starts with, ‘I hope you’re mobile and tablet because we have to have that capability.’ And we are. In fact, we have a saying at

Heartwood that we are ‘mobile and touch first.’ Everything we design is designed for touch first and then it can be easily transferred ‘backwards’ to everything else like PCs.”

The company’s second recent I/ITSEC success story involves a contract with the U.S. Navy.

“Last year we were just doing a pilot program,” Raheja said. “But over the last year it has grown to the point where we have been awarded contracts and are bidding on additional task orders.”

“That’s just one example of how small businesses can use I/ITSEC to engage directly with the military,” Wad-hawan added. “It actually happens here. You can actually

meet with companies to explore opportunities. They may not be our customers yet but this is a great venue to engage and learn.”

“I think that industry in general has moved to a point where there is broad understanding of the need to move beyond traditional training,” Raheja concluded. “And we are finding more and more industries coming to I/ITSEC. For example, we had a company come to us about training for electrical safety. I/ITSEC is not just about military and defense. It’s a place for all training.”

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Rockwell Collins Looks to International Sales

After a restructure of its international subsidiaries and the imple-mentation of a three-pronged strategy to be more reactive to global requirements, Rockwell Collins (Booth 2401) is more bullish than most about its prospects on the simulation and training (S&T) market.

Speaking to the Show Daily at a pre- I/ITSEC 2013 briefing, company representatives explained that the company’s nearly 50:50 split between its commercial and military business had allowed it to weather some of the US defense budget uncertainty.

“The beauty of our model between commercial and defense is that we are able to handle the cycles. We saw in 2008 the com-mercial was down but the military was booming but now with current budget restrictions it is the other way around,” Claude Alber, vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EUMEA) for Rockwell Collins, explained.

“We have continuously over the years invested 20% in internal research and development, which is industry leading. We have never forgotten the future and we will continue to do this. This company is positioned for growth even though in the past few years there have been some flat sales.”

Alber said the company’s strategy includes securing more con-tent on key commercial and military aircraft; to grow internationally through investment in its global infrastructure and to grow through acquisitions.

“So we are not doing everything from the US like the old days and just selling it internationally - we have a global strategy to be next to our customers and to develop products together in a true partner-ship. On the simulation and training side this is at the heart of our strategy.”

He added that the pure resale of US products now only represents 24% of sales in the EUMEA region for Rockwell Collins, with the major-ity including some domestically-developed content.

In addition, the company has refocused its European subsidiaries to create centers of excellence (CoE) specializing on certain sectors. Burgess Hill in the UK, for example, has been set up as the Euro-pean CoE for S&T, targeting the entire EUMEA region.

Alber noted that while the fastest growing regions were regarded as the Middle East and Russia, the ability to secure content on European-developed fixed and rotary wing aircraft was also leading to future S&T opportunities around the world.

“Europe is flat from a market standpoint but it is not flat from an OEM standpoint, which are exporting to the fast-growing markets. So capturing new positions on platforms is a key strategy for us.”

LeAnn Ridgeway, vice president and general manager of Simula-tion & Training Solutions for Rockwell Collins, added that the com-pany acquired its core S&T capabilities some ten years ago in order to take advantage of its avionics and flight deck expertise.

“What does Rockwell Collins bring that some of the bigger S&T companies don’t bring? Think about what training is – when we are putting a cockpit and a flight deck together and also providing that training and simulation solution, you now have the ability to do all

those software drops, you have the ability to get almost real-time concurrency of training,” Ridgeway said.

“The others, by the time they realize there has been a flight deck change, it can be a year or more before that flows all the way back through so those pilots get concurrent training. So you get negative training in the meanwhile.

“That’s why we started out on the simulation and training journey – there was a real untapped value there to be had.”

In the US, the company now provides simulation systems for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, F-16, E-2 mission platform and for the US Army UH-60L/M transportable containerized simulation devices.

At I/ITSEC 2012, Rockwell Collins announced a teaming agree-ment with Pilatus Aircraft to provide simulation and training systems across Asia and the Middle East. Rockwell Collins will provide its EP-8000 and EP-80 image generators and SpectraView displays for unspecified customers in Asia and the Middle East.

Further, in June it announced the intention to set up a joint venture with Blue Sky in China, to pursue FFS opportunities in the narrow-body commercial airline market, in a “crawl, walk, run” ap-proach to grow its Asia-Pacific business.

“We have been working with Blue Sky for the last five years for FFS for indigenous aircraft such as the MA70, MA700 and the MA60,” Ridgeway explained.

“Our intent is to merge together their access to market, their in-digenous aircraft knowledge with our commercial aircraft knowledge on the Western platforms, bring that together into China to address that growing market.

“Boeing and Airbus agree that Asia Pacific will be the fastest growing segment at about 20% over the next five years so we are positioning ourselves with a partner that has a channel to market.”

Ridgeway said the company is aware it can not simply take “a one-size-fits-all approach” that works with the US DoD and has instead to be prepared to co-develop systems that both contain indigenous content and are ITAR compliant.

“I do think Rockwell Collins is ahead of the curve in understand-ing and anticipating what was going on with those market drivers. It goes back into that balanced business model and many of those heavy military companies are really going to struggle with the new model, particularly with the DoD and MoDs saying ‘we are not going to fund your development any more’.

Like all US prime manufacturers that have been hit by the current defense downturn, Rockwell Collins is looking to reposition itself to capture further international sales.


The company announced that its OPOSIA commander training system ordered by the DGA French defense procurement agency to train combined arms task forces has now entered service.

Jean-Jacques Guittard, VP training and simulation at Thales (Booth 1000), told the Show Daily that while the company had four main product lines – airborne, land, naval and helicopters – increas-ingly military users were looking for ways to simulate joint operations involving a range of actors.

“Despite the reduction of military budgets, for training and simulation we have an advantage because if they want to train the soldier, or the pilot or so on, the military is increasingly restricted in being able to use real equipment. So this does raise the requirement for training and simulation in the virtual world,” Guittard explained.

“But more and more what we are seeing now is a demand for collective training, and simulated training combined with live training. Thales is a good example of this trend as we have now delivered many collective training solutions.”

Deployed at the French Army’s CENTAC combat training center in Mailly-le-Camp, the OPOSIA system will be used to train commanders of company-level combined-arms task forces, as well as section and platoon leaders.

According to Thales, the system can be coupled to the “live” training on the CENTAURE system, also provided by the company through a contract with DGA.

“The new Commander Training System can be used to simultane-ously train three digitised task force commanders, their subordinates (section and platoon leaders) and leaders of support units (engineering, artillery, logistics). This makes it possible to train up to 45 people taking part in one or more exercises in a virtual theater of operations,” the company explained in a statement.

The system is based on tactical simulation software developed by Thales and immerses personnel in a “highly realistic” virtual 3D uni-verse while personnel use their own operational communication and information systems during the exercises for added realism.

The French Army has made the new sys-tem a key component in personnel training and believes it will aid the coordination of support units in the field, enabling unit commanders, section leaders and platoon leaders to develop and apply their tactical reasoning skills on combined-arms missions.

Guittard said the company would provide a demonstration of such joint operations train-ing during I/ITSEC 2013 as it looks to take advantage of the growth in this area.

“Training can now be made very realistic through the virtual world so the demand is

increasing. And the training and simulation business itself is a grow-ing market – in the next ten years different market studies predict we will see 6 to 7% annual growth in the market,” he explained.

In addition to developing a range of systems covering individual, collective, command-level and live training, the reduction in military budgets across Europe has also led the company to look outside its traditional markets and raise the proportion of international sales.

“In places like South America, we are trying to find partnerships, depending on what we are trying to sell. More and more we are try-ing to not only deliver the system but also to perform the services, support, provide the training facilities and so on. And to do this of course it is necessary to have some partnerships.

The company is looking to break into China, which has a pressing need for commercial rotorcraft pilots now that restrictions on the low-altitude airspace are beginning to be relaxed.

“Now the civil helicopters are being allowed to fly, we are starting to sell simulators and our strategy is of course to continue and with partners create new training facilities in China – because there is a large demand for helicopters, which will require pilots and engi-neers,” Guittard explained to the Show Daily.

Meanwhile, the company announced that the first A400M flat panel training device developed for Airbus Military has been employed to train air crews since October. Installed at the Airbus Military International Training Centre in Seville, the training device allows air crews to familiarize themselves with the A400M cockpit and with the functionalities and procedures of the aircraft systems as well as its flight laws.

Thales Highlights Collective TrainingSeeing an increasing need for collective training and simulated joint operations from military users, Thales will showcase its capabilities in this area at I/ITSEC 2013.

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Christie Digital Systems Demonstrates New Visual SolutionsThe first true 120Hz projector at 4K resolution is among the visual display solutions being demonstrated by Christie Digital Systems (Booths 2049 and 2089) at I/ITSEC 2013.

Christie’s 4K 3-chip DLP technology features the Christie TruLife electronics platform which the company describes as “a quantum leap in video processing,” enabling 4K DLP projection at 120Hz. Christie

TruLife alleviates blur-ring and motion arti-facts associated with high-speed simulation content and supports video-processing pipeline of up to 1.2

Gigapixels per second. Christie is the first and only provider in the world to deliver 4K 3-chip DLP projection solutions at 120Hz.

The new Christie Twist LT is a purpose built, software-based solu-tion that enables full image warping and advanced edge-blending func-tions to reside within a customer’s Image Generator. Using the same user interface as Christie Twist, Christie Twist LT provides fingertip control to seamlessly edge-blend multiple non-linear images. Christie Twist LT fully integrates with Christie AutoCal for automatic adjustment of virtually any projected display and optimal viewing configuration.

At I/ITSEC, Christie Twist LT will provide the low-cost, high-quality warping and blending solution to a single-operator, entry-level im-mersive training simulator concept, demonstrating a UAV opera-tor training scenario. The simulator features a wide field of view, high resolution image, curved screen, tactile feedback system and binaural sound for an optimal immersive training experience. Using Christie AutoCal to provide fast and easy setup, the lightweight

training simulator offers a compact footprint for easy shipping and deployment. It is ideal for use as a UAV operator trainer, part-task trainer, helicopter trainer, and for vehicle training. “Christie Twist LT enables the expansion of our simulation ecosystem with an entry-level solution featuring low acquisition and sustainment costs for more cost-sensitive simulation applications,” said Zoran Veselic, vice president of Visual Environments at Christie.

Christie will demonstrate a three-channel, front-projected display consisting of Christie Matrix StIM WQ projection systems and a VI B 120Hz output, dramatically improving image quality. The complete multi-channel system is automatically aligned using Christie AutoCal.

Displaying simulation content at 120Hz from FlightSafety Inter-national is the Christie Matrix StIM WQ, an integrated, scalable-environment projection system outputting 800 ANSI lumens for the clearest images with no motion artifacts. The Christie Matrix StIM WQ is the brightest LED-based WQXGA simulation projection system in the industry to display separate RGB and infrared chan-nels using Christie InfraScene technology, producing independent, stimulated night vision goggle (NVG) images for a more realistic NVG training experience.

Christie products will be integrated into various training solutions from several manufacturers at I/ITSEC.

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BAE Systems (Booth 681) recently linked Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter pilots at the RAF Leuchars base in Scotland with air and maritime assets simulators across four sites in the UK in the first training mission simulation of its kind.

The company used its Dedicated Engineering Network (DEN) to

link the simulators in a live battlespace scenario. The Typhoon and Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer simulators were concurrent with the latest frontline operational standards for aircraft and ship, making this the first joint training demonstration in Europe where the train-ing systems are fully concurrent with frontline operational platforms.

Royal Navy and RAF personnel performed a complex real-time mission scenario which involved four Typhoons conducting a swing

role mission scenario, integrated with the PLEX-YS AWACS E-3D Sentry emulation based at the New Malden facility of BAE Systems and a Type 45 Destroyer simulation based at the company’s Broad Oak site.

PLEXSYS also provided the ASCOT system (Advanced Simulation Combat Operations Trainer) which was used to provide the bat-tlespace environment, integrated within a mission scenario devel-oped and managed by BAE Systems working in conjunction with the RAF. The DEN was used to connect simulators and conduct various training scenarios in a synthetic environment from unclassified through to secret level.

RN Lieutenant Simon Holbrook, Type 45 Fighter Controller in the trial, said: “It was hugely beneficial from my point of view. The interaction between the Type 45, E3-D and the four Typhoon simulators provided all the participants with a valuable opportunity to operate together efficiently and in a realistic scenario with all the benefits of simulated training. As an Instructor at the Royal Navy School of Fighter Control, I was impressed at how the exercise flowed given the different simulators contributing. We have already fed through some lessons learnt from interaction with the E3D Sentry and Typhoon.”

Air Commodore Gary Waterfall, Typhoon Force Commander, attended the trial and said “Striking the right balance between live and synthetic training is of high priority to the Typhoon Force. What we have seen today is a seamless integration of air and sea assets in a synthetic environment. Proof that the technology exists today to train for tomorrow.”

“We’re really pleased with how it went,” said Mike Dobson of BAE Systems who led the trial. “The most important thing is that it felt realistic to the participants. We hope that what we achieved through this trial today will allow us to develop the synthetic training environ-ment further than ever before.”

Further trials are planned over the next 18 months which will extend the mission scenario to include other simulation facilities across air, sea and land.

Software developer GameSim is using I/ITSEC 2013 to highlight its so-lution to a perceived gap in the modeling and simulation market – how to accurately replicate the destruction of buildings in a virtual world.

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 such as buildings and bridges.

“We are demonstrating Ruin through a game that we have cre-ated. It is a system that makes complete animated destruction of buildings, bridges vehicles,” GameSim founder and president Andrew Tosh explained.

“In of itself we might make that game an entertainment prod-uct, but for the military simulation industry you could integrate that in a simulation that needs realistic destruction models. Maybe you have a simulation where you want a soldier to breach a wall to enter a building - this would be the system to use to do that in a realistic way.”

The company is also highlighting its Conform solution takes raw

GIS data and immediately provides a 3D visualization of it, without any processing.

The latest version of Conform, which was unveiled in September, adds support for rendering LIDAR data, which Tosh believes will become a pressing customer requirement in coming years.

“We are trying to get ahead of the curve on that. Most of our customers are using standard map data products, but we wanted to get ahead as we see LIDAR as being the future for having really ac-curate environments. Most of our customers are not using that yet but we do believe they are going to start asking for it so we wanted to have it.”

Conform is a US Army PEO Simulation, Training and Instrumenta-tion product, which uses the system to construct a variety of visual databases.

The company is also working with the US Air Force to support the development of a Tactical Training Rehearsal Environment desk-top simulator for the F-35 and F-22 and is teamed with Lockheed Martin, which provides its Prepar3D software.

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The flexible architecture of the FATS M100 small arms training system, introduced in 2011, has allowed Meggitt Training Sys-tems (Booth 1040) to field new advances in small arms simulation technology, such as the inclusion of the CryENGINE 3-D Marks-manship Training environment with Megg-itt’s tetherless BlueFire weapon simulators, being demonstrated at I/ITSEC 2013.

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“There is much confusion in today’s simu-lation training market,” said Larry Raines, Vice President of Virtual Products. “Simply removing a cable from simulated weapons does not make it a smart weapon – only tetherless. Meggitt’s BlueFire smart weapon technology is a fully-sensored, tetherless sim-ulator that communicates with the training system in real-time. This allows trainers to monitor feedback that relates directly back to the shooter’s actions, allowing for quick reinforcement, correction and remediation.”

Meggitt’s new 3-D Lanes training mode uses highly detailed 3-D backgrounds and 3-D targets generated by the CryENGINE 3-D Marksmanship Training environment, which provides a perspectively-correct target presentation for each individual trainee. Dur-ing the after action review (AAR) the trainee can ‘fly’ downrange to assess the engage-ment in a 3-D shot placement relative to the target. Meggitt says this will be especially useful for evaluating the effectiveness of indirect-fire weapons such as the M203 un-

derbarrel grenade launcher and Mk19 auto-matic grenade launchers. Using CryENGINE, the instructor will be able to insert additional assets, such as berms, foliage, buildings, and vehicles, to provide varying levels of complexity for enhanced skills training. The scenario can be authored before the training event or in run-time to provide a dynamic training environment.

“Today’s soldiers are accustomed to highly detailed, realistic gaming graphics provided by CryENGINE and VBS2, so they quickly immerse themselves visually in Meg-gitt’s training scenarios,” said Raines. “But when you put a true-to-life weapon simulator in their hands, they quickly realize the quality of the system and the training, and reinforce muscle memory.”

In June the Italian Ministry of Defense awarded Meggitt two contracts worth $17 million to provide 55 SATs and 660 weapon simulators. The SATs will be the first to include the FATS M100 system architec-ture. The weapon simulators consist of 110 Berretta 9mm 92FS BlueFire pistol simulators, 110 FN Herstal Minimi 5.56mm light machine gun tethered simulators, 330 Beretta 5.56mm ARX 160 BlueFire rifle simulators and 110 ARX 160/GLX 160 BlueFire 40mm rifle grenade launcher simu-lators. The acquisition of the Meggitt training package will complement the introduction of the new generation of locally-developed ARX 160/GLX 160 weapons and demon-

strates Meggitt’s ability to provide simulators to meet customers’ unique requirements. Raines told the Show Daily that installations will start in the first half of 2014 and be finished by the end of the year.

At I/ITSEC, Meggitt will be demonstrating two through-sight devices – the FIST (Future Infantry Soldier Technology) Thermal Sight (FTS) and the Commanders Target Locater (CTL) – developed for integration with SATs in service with the British Army, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force Regiment. The FTS simu-lator provides training for up to four trainees per screen in both lanes and collective train-ing environments. Sight sensors accurately replicate switch and visual representations of the actual FTS device including enhanced targets for accurate thermal signatures. The CTL simulator provides training for up to two trainees per screen in the collective training environment and provides 360 degree visuals which are not limited to the projected image. The CTL simulator can be used in conjunction with the FTS simulator for collective fire team and section training.

Meggitt has linked Bluefire simulators with tablet computers to provide individual lane control for self-paced training. Not only does this allow immediate feedback and coaching on basic marksmanship skills but also immediate access to resources, such as doctrinal PDFs, that provide re-training/correction in the required skills. The tablet approach ensures the ready integration of the latest training materials and techniques. The system is agnostic – it can be used with Apple iOS or Android OS – and automatic voice over for commands alleviates the bur-den on the instructor/operator.

Meggitt demonstrates new Small Arms Training Technology

Meggitt’s BlueFire smart weapon technology is a fully-sensored, tetherless simulator that com-municates with the training system in real-time.

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Lockheed Martin Highlights F-35 Training MilestonesLockheed Martin (Booth 1749) is using the I/ITSEC 2013 venue to highlight several recent training milestones for the F-35 Lightning II program, as well as ongoing efforts directed toward expanded Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) training opportunities.

“The program has now produced 100 F-35 aircraft with more aircraft either delivered or on order than the F-22 program delivered in total,” offered Jon Rambeau, Vice President and General Manager for Lockheed Martin’s Training and Logistics Solutions business.

“And this is a very exciting time for F-35 training,” he added. “We began training operations at Eglin Air Force Base (FL) in January of this year and the pace of activity has accelerated significantly over the course of 2013. At this point we have almost 100 pilots who have gradu-ated through the training program as well as nearly 1,000 maintainers.”

Further 2013 training milestones at Eglin include the first groups of F-35 pilots and maintainers from the United Kingdom and The Netherlands.

In addition to the progress at Eglin AFB, Lockheed Martin has also stood up training activities at Marine Corps Air Station – Yuma, AZ, with the Marine Corps planning to declare their Initial Operating Capability in 2015.

“The operators out at Eglin Air Force Base de-scribe the F-35 as ‘incredibly easy to fly,’ Rambeau said. “One of the remarks that I had from the wing commander was that this is the easiest airplane he had ever had to land. So the basic flight of the aircraft is relatively straightforward. What’s different about the F-35 is the sophistication of the mission systems on the aircraft: the sensor capabilities and the missions it has to prosecute are a generation ahead of anything else before it. So that makes the focus of the training regime for F-35 very differ-ent. As a result we have designed a training program that allows the operators to very quickly get up to speed on how to leverage that sophisticated capability.”

Both F-35 pilot and maintainer training utilizes a significant amount of IT-based training aids which are easily embraced by the current generation of warfighters while also serving to free up actual assets for flight operations.

“The sheer real estate required to do live flight training for all of the missions that the F-35 will have to prosecute will be much more substantial,” he continued. “That also creates a need to be able to

move more of that training into a simulation environment. In fact, we now have a projection that about 50 percent of F-35 training for pilots will take place in a simulator versus in the aircraft. So the simulator we have developed for the F-35 is much more capable than what we’ve seen in the past. It’s certainly the most sophisti-cated fast jet simulator being produced today.”

There are currently five simulators at Eglin and two at Yuma, with production quantities ramping up to reflect the growing F-35 training and logistics infrastructure.

Highlighting the underlying training partnership with both U.S. and international customers, Rambeau said, “We’re also looking forward into the future and how to do more in the area of Live, Vir-tual and Constructive training: a pilot on the ground in a simulator; a pilot in an actual aircraft; and also injecting constructive elements into a training scenario.”

“Being able to link those three together in the future is going to be a very important characteristic of an effective training pro-gram,” Rambeau said. “So we have a lot of activity underway in the research and development area looking at how we can apply LVC to platforms like the F-35 and the F-16. Additionally, a lot of our international customers have been asking how we could also link it to some of their legacy platforms as well.”

“The F-35 simulator is certainly the most sophisti-cated fast jet simulator being produced today.”


New Comer ETU Looks to Power the Military UserFirst-time exhibitor Empowertheuser (ETU) (Booth 581) is attending I/ITSEC 2013 to bring attention to its SkillSims platform, which is an online toolkit for developing role play simulations.

ETU sales director Austin Kenny said while ETU had a number of corporate clients for SkillSims, the company was hoping to break into the military market where the system could be used for such applica-tions as conflict resolution or cultural awareness training.

“The innovative piece for what we have got, the magic sauce so to speak, is the backend of the system which is completely content agnostic. Essentially it is a complete SAS [software-as-a-service] product that is made up of modelling tool and adaptive simulator,” Kenny told the Show Daily.

“Where we add value is we are specifically simulating for skills like conflict negotiations, mediation, conversations, all those inter-personal type skills. That’s really our focus - we have worked with Google and Farmers [Insurance] in terms of corporates and where we see a massive benefit in the military is teaching how to handle those difficult conversations.”

The online toolkit is used to develop skills and help change behav-iors, and allows administrators to design, develop, deliver and then monitor the role play simulations, with analytics providing decision scores based on the options chosen.

First-time I/ITSEC exhibitor 7 TAO Engineering [Booth 452] hopes to provide show attendees with a better understanding of indus-trial warfare and the current global economic environment.

“We believe that the primary challenge for the U.S. military and U.S. economy is the financial crisis,” observed Dr. Amar Manzoor, Principal at 7 TAO. “And we are a company that deals with combatting and finding solutions to the financial crisis, specifically for the manufacturing industry.”

Manzoor said that the current financial scenario is neither a recession nor a depression, but rather a cycle he terms “a depletion.”

“Depletions last for 30 years and they are extremely volatile and very, very dangerous, not only to governments but also to every single department within a country,” he explained. “Deple-tions are ‘acidic’ in the sense that they eat the economy from the inside. And we are making every effort to try to stop the depletion from eating the western economy from the inside.”

Manzoor’s I/ITSEC goal is to convey a realization of the global financial challenges and help identify training opportunities for companies to prepare themselves for “economic combat.”

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