How the Army is driving enterprise training across five warfighting domains and three dimensions
An enterprise change in some corps-level training moves higher control (HICON) from Fort Leavenworth to the service component command.
An enterprise change in some corps-level training moves higher control (HICON) from Fort Leavenworth to the service component command.
The Army needs to better “replicate a multi-domain environment in a simulation" in order to train units, Col. Scott Woodward said.
This past fiscal year, the OWT delivered about 2 million square kilometers of 3D datasets to a range of partners, supporting training, operational, and intelligence needs, per the Army.
Brig. Gen. William Glaser, head of the Army's Synthetic Training Environment effort, said his team is "very proud" of One World Terrain because it "really just started off as an idea within the simulations community, but it's expanded out significantly into the operational community."
In new simulations, Gen. Paul Funk says, “we’re trying to replicate downtown Baghdad to the window, to the door knob.” How do you simplify masses of data so soldiers can use it for practical training?
The Army wants $985 million for modernization, from Apache gunships and 8x8 Strykers to safety improvements at ammunition plants. We have the list.
The Army’s 2021 budget request trims the troubled Next Generation Combat Vehicle program 11 percent while raising spending on its other modernization priorities – more than doubling investments in new high-tech infantry kit.
The Army’s building a detailed VR map of the planet and the service’s CIO sees JEDI as the logical place to host such a massive database.
Four military installations, yet to be named, will host experiments in VR training, tracking supplies in “smart warehouses,” and – most importantly – sharing scarce spectrum.
Gary Blohm, director of the Army Geospatial Center, said 3D is important to troop training and to operational planning because it "helps us navigate, especially when we get to urban environments."
The Army may need to delay the rollout of the new technology, scale it down, or both.
But building a global 3D terrain database will require wrangling huge amounts of data, Maj. Gen. Maria Gervais told us.
After decades using the same clunky simulators, the Army is about to buy new sims drawing on the latest innovations in online gaming.
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