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Editorial Comment

MS&T MAGAZINE • ISSUE 3/2010 05

Jeff Loube

training technology: love it, Hate it.there is a love-hate relationship with new training technologies. some of us resist change, fearing new technology and its impact; some of us are early adopters, enthusiastically seeking out and embracing new technology and its promises.

Fear of new technology is not unexpected. steven pinker, writing recently in the new York times notes “new forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers' brainpower and moral fiber”. he notes that we are told: “powerpoint... is reducing discourse to bullet points. search engines lower our intelligence, encouraging us to skim on the surface of knowledge rather than dive to its depths.” For those who fear technical change – safety is found in the status quo. they would never be found at 0500 in a queue outside the apple store.

on the other hand, ‘digital immigrant’ grandfather aviators, with pride and wide eyed won-der, tell us stories, about how proficiently their “digital native’ grandchildren demolish them in digital dogfights – concluding that recruits have changed – and we must use new technologies if we are to appeal to this new race. We observe how networks and databases, models and simula-tions frame most military workplaces. Connectivity is persistent, both at work and at home. is it surprising that this environment spawns technology advocates that do not find it unreasonable to be in a queue at 0500 outside the apple store? For these folks technology itself is instrumen-tal in their thinking, and technology is both the issue and the solution.

every year, the edge Foundation (www.edge.org) poses a question to influential thinkers. this years question is “how is the internet changing the way you think?” interesting reading especially for those engaged in training tomorrow’s soldier – and choosing the technology to do so. We should be asking similar questions about our own network centric environment.

marissa mayer, vp search products and User experience, Google, answered, “it's not what you know, it's what you can find out. the internet has put at the forefront resourcefulness and critical-thinking and relegated memorization of rote facts to mental exercise or enjoyment”. the internet is a paradigm for the networked and connected environment of tomorrow’s soldier. those training and employing that soldier would, i believe, agree with the need to develop resourceful-ness and critical thinking. Certainly, i’ve seen critical thinking highlighted as an essential skill for aircraft technicians.

Kai Krause, software pioneer and author, comparing the vision, the hope and the theory with the reality of today observed “there were such lofty expectations using multimedia in education and learning but already soon after... we called it "multimediocrity"”. and perhaps that is what those with strong reservations about training technology fear – an institutionalising of medioc-rity in training through technology. Yet, how do we train for the modern environment without technology – we do need to “train as we work, train as we fight”.

ruth C Clark (2007) asks “have you ever attended an ineffective classroom course? or expe-rienced poor e-learning materials? the reason we see inconsistent learning outcomes is that the quality of a learning environment is not in the technology, but in how the technology is used.”

this leaves us with two things to keep in mind when dealing with technology. First, technol-ogy is not the big issue. the big issue is how and what you want the students to learn e.g. criti-cal thinking, and the instructional methods required. only after that is determined can we deal with technology. taking a position midway between advocacy and fearful resistance – a critical dialectic position – helps us to best do that.

e.v. sullivan proposes a broad framework that challenges decision makers to be objective and critically reflect on the issues. a critical dialectic position forces the evaluation of the impact of technology from a multidimensional perspective, including its intent and consequences, in order to arrive at an informed decision. and an informed decision is essential. neil postman (1992) cautions, “every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. a bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away. the wise know this well and are rarely impressed by dramatic technological changes…”

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05 Editorial CommEntTraining Technology. Managing Editor Jeff Loube explores the zen of

training technology.

08 tEChnology appliCationSimulation at a Price. The Latvian Armed Forces found a cost effective

solution to provide a simulated training environment. Harry Thompson

describes the implementation.

12 tEChnology appliCationMedicine, Health Care and Opportunity. Vendors of military and

aviation M&S technologies are bullish on the health care domain.

Chuck Weirauch explains.

16 pErformanCE tEChnologyPutting Theory Into Practice. Some ideas that work. Lt(N) Bradley White

discusses tactics for Air Force technical training gleaned from the field.

19 training transformationA Center of Excellence. The Joint Unmanned Aircraft Systems COE is tasked

with supporting joint use of these systems. Chuck Weirauch explains their role.

24 training tEChnologyEighty Years of Flight Simulation. Ed Link’s trainer demonstrated the

effectiveness of ‘ground based training’. Walter F. Ullrich tells the story.

28 show rEportITEC 2010. The show was considered a success by all concerned.

Walter F. Ullrich reports.

30 ConfErEnCE rEportIQPC UAV Training and Simulation. An insatiable appetite for capability

is driving the growth and the challenges of RPA systems. Dim Jones reports.

32 nEwsSeen and Heard. A round up of developments in simulation and training.

Compiled and edited by Chuck Weirauch.

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Scarce resources, equally com-peting requirements, com-plex situations, rapid deci-

sion-making training and readiness of personnel and equipment – these are situations that today’s nAto leader-ship continually face. How can technol-ogy approach these issues? How can technology help decision-makers over-come these obstacles?

in today’s budget-conscious envi-ronment, it is extremely important for north American treaty organization (nAto) countries to employ afford-able and yet sophisticated simulation training resources to maintain readi-ness. Many countries, however, do not have the financial and human capital resources required to enhance their national training and readiness capabil-ities to promote interoperability among alliance forces.

latvia, in the Baltic region of north-ern Europe, serves as an example of how a nation can use technology to more effectively utilize scarce resources. the latvian Armed Forces faced a shortage of computer-assisted simulation solu-tions for training military personnel.

they needed to find a cost-effective tool to meet their training and readiness requirements and provide real-world scenarios to improve the quality of their military training.

the challenge the latvian Armed Forces faced was twofold. First, the mili-tary had to develop a simulation capabil-ity with features and functionality availa-ble in more sophisticated and expensive military simulation training tools. Sec-ondly, the armed forces needed to find a way to meet their training and long-term sustainment requirements at a price the nation could afford.

program Executive office-Simu-lation, training and instrumentation (pEo-StRi) awarded training contracts to Alion Science and technology. Alion has worked closely with representa-tives of a number of nAto nations to help them put together a strategy to incorporate modeling and simulation in their training and educational programs. Alion found that many of the countries were buying feature-rich simulation systems with features that far exceed their current existing requirements and capabilities. the findings showed that

oversized systems were costly to install, maintain and sustain. this was further complicated by the additional subject matter experts needed to maintain and sustain these systems. these factors placed an additional financial burden on a nation’s budget, particularly signifi-cant with smaller countries.

As a result of these findings, it was clear there was a need to adapt and rethink strategies to respond to the needs of smaller countries. there needed to be an intermediate level of simulation between the highly capable U.S. joint simulations and the commer-cial type computer games that could be used to address a nation’s constructive simulation requirements in a manner “good enough” to support these require-ments, but much less costly in terms of simulation procurement, training and sustainment costs. in the case of the


Sometimes ‘good enough’ exceeds all expectations. Harry Thompson describes the successful implementation of a constructive simulation capability in a budget conscious country.

Bringing Military Simulationcapabilities to latvian Armed Forces

latvian Armed Forces, simulation solu-tions were reviewed that would suit the military’s objective to support its opera-tional units. After in-depth research, Vt MÄK’s Battle command software was selected to meet the military require-ments. Vt MÄK’s Battle command mili-tary tactical trainer provides similar fea-tures and functionality as more costly systems and allows ground combat commanders to practice their planning and execution skills within a compelling simulated environment. Battle com-mand helps commanders develop warf-ighting skills by allowing them to plan the battle, fight the battle and review the battle.

Alion worked with Vt MÄK to tai-lor Battle command to make it cost-effective and comprehensive. Engineers weighed the costs and benefits of each element of the latvian military solu-tion. this included defining customer needs and controlling expenses. Alion took Battle command simulation soft-ware to a different level by integrat-ing it in both a training program and an educational program to meet the latvian military’s requirements to use

the simulation countrywide – not just in one central simulation center. this approach addressed the latvian senior leadership’s vision to push simulation use through a distributed, easy-to-use manner down to the lowest possible level nationwide.

Among the support Alion provided to the latvian Armed Forces were over-all program management, advanced user training, terrain database development, extended on-site support and opera-tional use helpdesk support. latvian users were taught how to effectively install and use the software and how to build their own terrain to use with the software. Subject matter experts devel-oped a massive library of more than 100 individual function guides or checklists (in addition to the normal user’s manual) for the various functions associated with Battle command operation and terrain development.

Train the TrainersAn integral part of making the simula-tion software cost-effective involved establishing a technically and opera-tionally proficient latvian program man-

agement office to provide oversight of all simulation activities, act as a helpdesk and provide “master trainers” for the future nationwide use expansion. the “master trainers” were trained through the “training the trainer” approach. Alion worked with selected military person-nel, who previously did not have exten-sive simulation experience, and taught them how to employ the simulation tool, helping them to become effective “mas-ter trainers.” these “master trainers” are now able to pass on their knowledge to other military personnel, enabling them to operate the battle simulation program on their own.

Additionally, the latvian forces were trained to run major brigade-level exer-cises without external subject matter experts. this saved the latvian military an additional $1.5 million during the first year. Subsequent savings of $1.5 million per year is expected in program sustain-ment costs since latvia Armed Forces do not require on-site U.S. experts. this training and fielding approach better ensures and protects the investment by the U.S. and latvia in simulation by establishing a capability for latvia to

sustain and grow its simulation capa-bility with its own people and resources within a budget they can afford.

Program ManagementAlion’s role as the program management and subject matter expert included sup-port of nationwide training exercises with the latvian Armed Forces using Vt MÄK’s Battle command desktop training simulation. these brigade-level exercises were the culmination of a five-month long project that included fielding, new equipment training and advanced training.

originally, this annual national level training exercise was scheduled to be a live field exercise but the exercise was scheduled for cancelation due to budget restrictions. However, with the fielding of the Battle command simulation, it was determined that the training objectives could be accomplished using a simula-tion tool at a considerable savings. there-fore, latvian military leaders decided to replace the previously planned, and can-celled, live training with a constructive simulation training exercise using Battle command.

Interoperability with command & control SystemsDuring the exercise planning and devel-opment process prior to the national exercise, the latvian senior leadership discussed the possibilities of using their tactical command and control per-sonal computer (c2pc) system, which is a U.S. command and control tool, in the simulation exercise. they would normally use this system in live field exercise operations in their command posts but were trying to determine how it could be used by the command cent-ers to track the battle in this simulation exercise.

Because Battle command simula-tion can interoperate with other simu-lations and systems such as command and control systems, it was worth exploring with the latvian military. Similar type interoperability during exercises had been performed with Bat-tle command, so an experiment as part of the national exercise was arranged in latvia for determining the effective-ness of the interoperability between the Battle command simulation and the latvian c2pc system.

the result was highly successful.

With the installation of a small soft-ware program from Vt MÄK and some small modifications, within 10 minutes, the battlefield picture of all friendly and identified enemy units in the simula-tion were being displayed in the c2pc system in the main brigade headquar-ters, just as it would have been in a live exercise. the latvian senior leader-ship decided at that point to continue the remainder of the exercise using the c2pc to Battle command linkage. there were no issues with its use dur-ing the exercise, and it greatly added to the realism of the training for the latvia command posts and their staffs. this achievement provided the latvian mili-tary with limitless options for support of future exercises.

The Resultthe fielding of Battle command provided the latvian Armed Forces with its first simulation capability at nearly one-third the cost of procuring and fielding a more complex simulation tool. the latvian military leaders proved that the multipur-pose simulation tool:• is able to be used in a large national simulation center;• Suits classroom environments;• Serves as an enhancement/sustain-ment tool to other simulation tools in use;• can be used in solo mode as a study aide;• is able to support distributed exercises

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with locations throughout latvia and the world;• is interoperable with the latvian real-world command and control system; and• Meets training and educational needs through a software system that has the same type of coding as more complex simulations but is easier to operate.

Additionally, the training and sup-portive approach resulted in overall annual savings for the latvia military of $1.5 million in sustainment costs. the management plan provided sub-ject matter experts to initially train the latvia forces for the normal three week new equipment training period, which is part of the standard pEo-StRi program of support. Alion further con-ducted two additional training periods of four weeks to six weeks and con-cluded with a comprehensive exercise. this entire process took less than six months to complete, instead of the normal one full initial year plus follow-on additional years of subject matter expert support.

Despite budget cuts, the approach with reasonable procurement and field-ing and program management costs has provided the latvian Armed Forces another option for a national simulation capability which has greatly increased the military’s ability to train - a simula-tion capability with all of the character-istics and capabilities of a large system for good performance.

not only did the fielded simulation program exceed its identified require-ments, Alion trained the latvian military personnel to use the software within six months and left the country ahead of schedule. this resulted in savings that

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View of latvian terrain near the city of liepa

in Battle command simulation.




the country can use for needs that would otherwise have been spent on continu-ing sustainment support.

the latvian Armed Forces program demonstrated that Alion can deliver simulation capabilities quickly and cost effectively, reducing the cost of owner-ship by eliminating costs associated with ongoing support and sustain-ment. By lowering capital investments requirements, this approach lowers the entry barrier for smaller countries that want to increase and enhance their armed forces simulation training pro-grams and capability.

Futurethe leadership of the latvian Armed Forces envisions the use of this simula-tion capability across all levels of their military services. Simulation will be used to train Home Guard forces, in aca-demic institutions and training facilities, and in various small unit organizations throughout the country in distributed or stand-alone exercises. the key to the latvian military’s training success is reasonable procurement and fielding costs and vastly reduced sustainment costs. this intermediate level simulation

system is constructed so that latvian personnel can rapidly learn to operate, maintain and sustain all associated sim-ulation functions on their own.

cost and complexity have forced many smaller countries to put off adopting a simulation training program or accept an extremely complex solution with min-imal sustainment support and training. latvian senior military officials along with the office of Defense cooperation chief in latvia conducted extensive research

on the options available to address their requirements with the funding they had available. the latvia military’s implemen-tation of the Battle command simulation capability serves as an example to other nAto countries that they can afford to enhance their national training capabili-ties through various means and not just the standard, expensive and highly tech-nical options of the past. ms&t

About the AuthorHarry thompson serves as international programs Business Manager and Vice president for program Management, Alion Science and technology. He has worked in the modeling and simulation community for more than 20 years and in the international and nAto M&S envi-ronment for more than 14 years, the last 10 years with Alion.

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Andris Auliciems review results of training

exercise in preparation for After Action

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Stimulated in part by US Department of Defense (DoD) requirements and funding,

and military and civilian demand for improved patient safety and outcomes, next-generation application of modeling and simulation technologies to medical training is emerging as a viable market for those in the defense and aviation training industry community. The health care community is recognizing that it has similar training problems to those encountered in aviation and the military, and that the training solutions those two communities have developed and implemented can be adapted to meet and resolve medical training challenges as well.

ParallelsOne training provider that sees the close correlation of medical training needs to its aviation and military training prod-uct, concept and curricula training solu-tions is CAE. According to Guillaume

Hervé, President of CAE Healthcare, there are parallels in the three areas, namely, high-risk environments where people’s lives are at stake, and an expected high outcome of saving and preserving those lives. He explained that is why successful training concepts, such as crew resource management (CRM) from the avia-tion industry, can be applied to medical team training to improve practitioners’ decision-making and cognitive reason-ing ability to quickly identify and resolve problem areas in the operating room,

“We started looking at areas where simulation can play a can play a role in reducing risk, and we quickly realized that there are lots of parallels between health care and aviation, both civil and military,” Hervé said. “They all are high-risk areas where you need a lot of differ-ent stakeholders to execute flawlessly for the outcomes to be positive, making sure that a flight is safe, a military mis-sion is properly executed, or in the case of health care that a patient is properly

treated. Our mission is to improve the safety and efficiency of health care by leveraging simulation, modeling and simulation-based training best practices from our aviation and military training applications.”

In addition to applying CAE’s own aviation and military training knowl-edge and experience to health care, CAE Healthcare has recently made what Hervé refers to as “bolt-on” acqui-sitions of medical simulation and train-ing provider companies to gain both new products and medical expertise. In February, the subsidiary partnered with the Ontario’s not-for-profit transport medicine provider Ornge to become the


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A growing MarketThere is opportunity in the growing medical simulation and training market. chuck Weirauch describes some initiatives in that market.

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The CAE-Michener Centre for the

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expected to train more than 1,500 students

and healthcare practitioners per year.

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exclusive provider of that company’s simulation and education programs for healthcare practitioners. Earlier, CAE Healthcare acquired ICCU Imaging and VIMEDIX. The former firm provides edu-cation programs for bedside ultrasound procedures, while the latter recently launched its new virtual reality echocar-diography simulator. Prior to that, CAE Healthcare had acquired Immersion Cor-poration’s medical simulation business unit, which provides endoscopy, laparos-copy and endovascular simulators.

According to Hervé, the goal is to provide an integrated training program, complete with the equivalent of a full flight simulator, and training broken down into part task trainers, with high-fidelity Web-based training similar to those employed in the military training community. Simulation reduces the time it takes to train a health care professional to learn to conduct a procedure, while improving patient safety by helping reduce medical errors through enhanced training where a student must demon-strate competency, Hervé explained.

According to Jeff Bergenthal, Direc-tor of Advanced Programs at Lockheed Martin Simulation, Training and Sup-port, the health care profession is fac-ing exactly the same training challenges that the military does. There are “a lot of tremendous parallels” between what his company does in the way of train-ing solutions for the military and what is needed in the health care world to pro-vide better patient care, he pointed out. That is why his company has been tak-ing a look at what it does for its military customers every day to determine what it can provide to help encourage profound changes in the health care field that will result in improved patient safety.

The firm’s first health care venture is a partnership with Adventist Healthcare to develop a training program for the health care system’s new nurses. The overall goal is to give new nurses the knowledge and experience that a nurse with many more years of experience would have. The primary focus is to develop and hone the nurses’ situational awareness, as well as decision-making and communication skills, and accelerate this process to an expert level through the use of virtual worlds, immersive simulation and Web-based training, Bergenthal explained.

To accomplish this task, Lockheed Martin called on its Human Performance

Engineering Division to formulate and build expert nurse models to use during the whole program of instruction. Dur-ing the course, the performance of new nurses is compared with the expert mod-els throughout training and assessment to understand what knowledge and skill gaps are being closed and how close they are to becoming an expert.

The instructional courseware effort was begun 18 months ago and was delivered to Adventist Healthcare last fall. Work is now underway to double the content of the program of instruction, with a pilot study to begin next year to quantify and validate the results of the expanded program. Meanwhile, Lock-heed Martin is looking to further expand into the health care training arena.

“I think that there are a lot of oppor-tunities that are out there in our tradi-tional customer set, such as the Depart-ment of Veteran Affairs,” Bergenthal said. “There is also tremendous opportunity in the civilian health care arena. Health care reform is going to cause providers to ensure to provide the best health care they can, so anything that can help them with that goal will have value.”

Virtual WorldsAmong the simulation-based technolo-gies that can be exploited, such as gam-ing, to meet health care training needs, one that is gaining traction is virtual worlds. That is because the technology is ideally suited to meet the critical health care challenge of providing training to a diverse group of health care providers who must work in teams, such as surgi-cal teams, but who rarely get the time or opportunity to train together.

SAIC has made a foray into the health care training arena with its purchase of Forterra Systems’ On-line Interactive Vir-tual Environment (OLIVE) in February. The OLIVE has already been employed in hospital training of civilian and mili-tary emergency medical teams and first responders, including for Stanford Uni-versity’s Medical Center and Walter Reed Medical Center. SAIC has a medical research division, and OLIVE has poten-tial applications for that area.

Medical training is just one applica-tion for OLIVE, but a major one for SAIC, said Robert Franceschini, Division Man-ager for the company’s Orlando-based Simulation Systems Division. The OLIVE platform can connect with third party

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medical models and provide detailed physiological models of patient behav-iors, conditions and vital signs and has some ability to represent emergency medical facilities, he pointed out.

“In general, we think that OLIVE is very well suited to any situation where there are multiple participants doing team training, and in the medical com-munity there are a number of those where people are distributed but then have to work together. Virtual worlds are set up by their nature to be collabo-rative environments, and another big advantage is cost, being much cheaper to employ compared to other simulation systems.”

“As simulation becomes more mature, it’s harder to argue against it from an economic perspective, espe-cially because simulation is able to rep-resent complex medical environments in scenarios,” Franceschini summed up. “That’s becoming a compelling argu-ment, and ultimately there will be quite a good market for medical simulation and training.”

Engineering and Computer Simula-tions (ECS) has focused its product line on game-based medical training solu-tions for several years, and perhaps is best known for its Tactical Combat Casu-alty Care (TC3) simulation for the Army’s Department of Combat Medic Training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The com-pany’s latest product is the Virtual Medi-cal Simulation Training Center (VMSTC), a networked medically orientated virtual world based on the Nexus Web platform for the distribution of medical learning content that would include virtual class-rooms, simulation-based training, immer-sive environments, social networks and online repositories to allow users to meet medical training requirements. The first VMSTC is scheduled for delivery to the Army Research, Development and Engi-neering Command (RDECOM)’s Simu-lation Technology and Training Center (STTC) this August.

According to ECS President Waymon Armstrong, the VMSTC will create a vir-tual medical channel learning environ-ment that will serve as a central access platform to bring together medical instruction and education materials from various and diverse sources. Health care professionals will be able to access this material online, interact with it via their avatars and train together with distrib-

uted medical team members in a virtual classroom environment, he explained. The VMSTC will be particularly useful in providing the means for health care pro-fessionals to meet their continuing edu-cation requirements and train to operate new medical equipment.

“Virtual worlds allow medical per-sonnel to train anytime and anywhere and can provide the hands-on expertise that they need,” Armstrong said. “They also are going to give you that team training exercise capability.”

According to Jack Norfleet, the STTC’s Chief Engineer for Medical Simu-lation, the VMSTC is developed to create a virtual world that will allow the deliv-ery of many different types of medical distance learning products from a single point, an approach similar to the Army Knowledge Online (AKO) Web portal. The primary goal is to create a virtual campus for medical learning.

ECS is “very bullish” on the future of medical simulation, Armstrong empha-sized. With defense budgets being cut back and health care reform calling for the means to improve patient safety, there will be funding available for civilian medical simulation, he believes. Larger defense training providers will take the same role as lead system integrators for civilian medical applications just as they have for the military, while smaller com-panies will provide the solutions, Arm-strong feels.

other Simulation ApplicationsThe STTC is researching several other applications of simulation technology for medical training. One that currently has high priority is the development of alternatives to the use of live animals for medical training. According to Norfleet, simulation might be just might be one of

those alternatives. To find out, the Center is drawing on its experience with simu-lating severe trauma.

“This is less about trying to reduce the reliance on live animals than it is about trying to increase the technology to a level where we can train all the Force on simulations that are as good as live animals,” Norfleet said. ‘In so doing, we will be able to raise the level of training throughout the Force without them.”

Some of the other STTC areas of med-ical simulation research include virtual patients and the development of natural language processing, Norfleet reported. The latter is so that a virtual patient would have language capabilities that would allow medics to practice patients’ health evaluations with them. Another area is gaming for medical training. The STTC was the contracting agency in the development of the ECS TC3 simulation. Work also continues to further the capa-bilities of wireless patient mannequins, an STTC led development.

“This simulation work is from the aspect of patient safety,” Norfleet pointed out. “In order to provide our caregivers with the skill and confidence levels they need through training, we have to let them practice. And the nature of medi-cine is that you can’t do that on patients, so you have to do that in simulation. The patient element has always been a weak-ness in medical training, and that’s why the medical simulation industry is grow-ing significantly. It’s a logical progression of the technology.” ms&t


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Most would agree that train-ing people to maintain and fix things is best done

using a blend of computer-based course-ware, simulation and hands-on practical performance of real maintenance tasks. So why do we still see a reluctance to use one or another of the components of this blended approach? Why do some resist using computer-based courseware to deliver training and others embrace it as the solution to all their problems? Entrenched positions at the extremes promote narrow approaches that actually detract from the training process by fail-ing to leverage training technology and instructional methods. Clearly, using a combination of methods and media (old and new) is doable and it works best. Technical training in Canadian Forces aircraft fleets is changing and I’m ready to say we’ve got it (almost) right.

I will attempt to show, quite unscien-tifically of course, three good things: first, that using elearning (or what we some-

times call Interactive/Individual Course-ware (ICW)) is good as long as it is not used exclusively; second, that making technical trainees perform work on air-craft or high-fidelity simulators does not increase timelines, does not require too much money and should be used in con-junction with other methods; third, and finally, that training people to do partic-ular tasks, whether on a computer or on an aircraft, is the only way to train skills. The latter is actually the backbone of the concept of using a blended approach to training. While a certain segment of training ‘experts’ stick to the notion that ‘skill-based’ training is the solution to technical performance – they gloss over the fact that to learn a skill one has to actually “do” something (a task), and the only way to demonstrate a skill is with a satisfactory task outcome. So, why not use real tasks? I believe that embedding real tasks in a blend of methods and media always gives the best results in the big picture.

The First Good ThingThe first good thing is that there are many different methods and many differ-ent media available because when you’re training someone how to do a task you can’t rely on one method of instruction. When I was at 10 Field Technical Train-ing Squadron (10 FTTS – the school that teaches CF-188 Hornet techs to main-tain those aircraft) I saw what works and what doesn’t work. The best pos-sible combination of using ICW and real work are the courses that trained Avion-ics Technicians (AVS) their basic AVS course. These guys have it figured out: they use ICW for most of the system or component descriptions (capabilities and limitations, etc.) and some proce-dures and then move on to instructor-


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led to explain it further. Then they move on to using the Integrated Maintenance Training System (IMTS) for actual proce-dure training. The IMTS is the simulator designed and built with one purpose in mind: maintenance of the Hornet. They finish off with removing and installing a component on a real aircraft. Just plain common sense. So why am I describing this? Because what the school did for many years was to teach using only CBT – no real hands-on training. Not surpris-ingly, it took longer to train and graduates had to re-learn everything using their hands when they got to their operational units. Sound crazy? In hindsight we (the Air Force) know it was but we thought we knew what we were doing. Even so, there are still advocates trying to tell us we can learn technical skills without actually performing some work. In the AVS training described, most facts and concepts, in fact, come from ICW. Even some procedural knowledge comes from ICW. What doesn’t come from ICW is the instructor walking the students through higher-level knowledge and the students performing work either on a simulator or a real aircraft. What’s important is that they are practicing tasks.

The Second Good ThingThe second thing is that using simula-tors or real items to train hands-on work is not a burden, but the opposite. We are always conscious of reducing over-all costs, both in dollars and personnel. Hence the attractiveness of online ICW to senior managers – even though there are usually some higher initial costs (for production, etc) it simply costs less over time. However, enough time has passed since the Hornet world re-introduced hands-on training that we can safely say the quality and production rate achiev-able through using hands-on training far outweighs the costs. The Hornet world produces at least twice as many techs capable of their own work in less than half the time it took five years ago. In roughly ten months 10 FTTS brings a new technician to the point where he or she can actually perform maintenance and sign for much of their own work. Contrast this with 24 months, or even 36 months. The Sea King fleet can claim similar successes achieved by redesign-ing training. (see MS&T 2/2009 – “Out of the Box”) So what gives?

If ICW costs less than simulation (the high-end versions) and hands-on

using real aircraft (or tanks, or ships, or refrigeration units, etc), what’s missing? A systems view of the gains in effective-ness and efficiency are what is missing. The factor to add into the equation when we estimate costs is “quality”. The qual-ity, hence value, of a graduate who has actually learned to do something in a realistic manner is higher. While the cost of enabling your learners to manipulate something (either virtually or real) may be high, and the cost of expert techni-cians (instructors) to coach learners in small groups may be high, the quality of graduate you get at the end of the course is simply better, and it is faster. It is more effective and more efficient. If training is well designed you can pretty much throw a graduate on the line and have them fix a lot of things sooner and better than otherwise. You may pay more at the front end, getting it right the first time, but you save much more, over many more years, at the back end, by graduating job ready technicians in a shorter time.

The Third Good ThingCF success stories all have practical training in common. The interesting nugget that emerges from these stories

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is that no matter “how” this practical bit of training is applied it is the “what” that is key. Advocates of so-called skill-based training, of which there are many in the CF, do find success in ab initio schools where technicians learn skills such as basic air-craft mechanics or electrical systems. They find success because these skill sets are generic in nature and can be applied in quite broad fashion – and because they are based on performing generic tasks. What some technical schools for specific fleets continue to find – and prove – is that it is essential that actual maintenance pro-cedures are trained: that is, tasks!. Some of the greatest strides in Aviation Techni-cian (AVN) training at 10 FTTS have been made in the realization that the training of actual tried and true procedures, for say, landing gear rigging, can only be trained through application and repetition using detailed technical orders. Skill or no skill, task-based training on real or near-real (high fidelity) simulation simply cannot and will not be replaced by e-learning, courseware, ICW, etc. And, no amount of generic skill-based training (real or not) will replace it either.

Perhaps the greatest example of the application of a successful back-to-basics strategy for shortening training time and improving learning using a blend of ICW and hands-on work is the centralized Apprentice Training Flight concept as it has evolved in the Hor-net fleet. The key to ATF is that it uses master-apprentice relationships, small group learning and a whopping amount of hands-on training to enable some very good learning. The ATF actually trains apprentices in some key servic-ing and aircraft awareness tasks before they enter the more “academic” courses at the main schoolhouse at 10 FTTS. In effect, the Hornet fleet has sandwiched the training of theory, fact, and concept between the practical procedure train-ing. The result is that trainees are given enough training on the aircraft as they can handle to be effective at some basic tasks while at the same time this amount of training firms up the base of “aware-ness” and general aircraft knowledge so that the ICW delivered training makes sense. The trainee learns the aircraft and how to service it, then goes to the school where they undertake a program that delivers short bits of theory, then prac-tical, then theory, then practical, and so on as they work through detailed train-

ing on specific systems and on specific tasks. Essentially they do all three of the “good things” in a systematic manner. The result is skilled and able graduates…in half the time it took ten years ago.

The cost of Good ThingsIndeed there is a cost to to lead appren-tice or student technicians through such a blended type of training. Over the years 2007-2008 10 FTTS more than doubled its staff, from roughly 60 to over 130 regu-lar and reserve, and expanded to include a detachment at 3 Wing Bagotville, Que-bec. Importantly, this expansion was mostly at the Corporal and Master Cor-poral level – the level with the highest positive impact on student-instructor ratios. The expansion, however costly in terms of salaries and impact on existing Squadron manning, allowed the school to not only implement the ICW/practical blend but also increase student through-puts from approximately 60 graduates per year to, at its highest, over 210 gradu-ates per year. Not only did training time decrease by around 58% - the new train-ees can now perform a host of first-line maintenance skills on their own. Quite simply put, a change in training method-ology combined with a staff increase of 217% allowed the school to increase stu-dent throughput by 350%...and graduate better students in 42% of the time. And as for the cost of creating high fidelity

maintenance simulators in order to opti-mize training…as compared to the host of other methods the school used at vari-ous times during its two decade history the IMTS cost is a fraction of the others. (“Lessons Learned – Training Technolo-gies in Canadian Hornet Maintenance Training, G. Coulman and B. White, I/ITSEC 2009)

conclusionNothing I have written about is new or original. However, it’s well past the time that we can afford to spend time seeking panaceas for training solutions – especially for technical training. The fact is that a lot solutions work but they work in different ways. What it comes down to is when and where you want to spend your money – and what you need to train. Focus on silver bullet solutions at your peril. What we see in technical training in the Air Force is that good design with a mix of old and new, ICW and hands-on practical training, makes sense and produces competent and skilled technicians. ms&t

About the AuthorLieutenant (Navy) Bradley White is a Training Development Officer currently working with the CF-188 Modernization program and advising the Next Genera-tion Fighter Capability on maintenance training issues. He was formerly the Standards and Development Officer at 10 FTTS in Cold Lake, Alberta.

Disclaimer – This article reflects the authors personal views; it is not a Cana-dian Forces position on technical train-ing; nor an official position of the Training Development branch of the CF.


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The US Department of Defense (DoD) is budgeting more than $6 billion for unmanned

aerial systems (UAS) in 2010. The number of UAS to be employed by the world’s military is expected to grow exponentially in the next few years. There is little doubt there will be an expansion of Joint service and Coalition operations employing UAS.

The Joint Unmanned Aircraft Sys-tems Center of Excellence (JUAS COE), located at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, is the DoD-designated agency responsible for supporting the Joint Warfighter through the development and integration of common unmanned air-craft operating standards, capabilities, concepts, technologies, doctrine, tactics, techniques, procedures and training. In other words, it covers the scope of top-ics that involve the operation of DoD UAS, with a focus on anything that is not an acquisition-based problem. Initially established in 2005 as a means to resolve

the issue of which service would be the lead DoD agency for UAS, the JUAS COE was realigned under the US Joint Forces Command in 2007.

CONOPS With each US service having its own des-ignated UAS, and unique doctrine, tactics, techniques, procedures and training, the kind of joint service operations demanded by irregular warfare often proved chal-lenging. One of the first tasks for the JUAS COE was to develop the first joint UAS concept of operations (CONOPS). This CONOPS was approved by the Joint Requirements Oversight Council in March 2007, and described how the DoD should optimally employ UAS to achieve the greatest effectiveness.

A second edition of the CONOPS was also submitted and approved in late 2009. The JUAS COE works to update and integrate the latest UAS capabilities into the CONOPS on a regular basis. The document provides guidelines for joint

task force and operational planners to optimize the latest UAS capabilities to best support operations.

Airspace RequirementsIn the March 2010 US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report entitled “Comprehensive Planning and Results-Orientated Training Strategy are Needed to Support Growing UAS Inventories,” the GAO stated that in light of expanding UAS inventories, “in some cases the Air Force and Army lack robust plans that account for the person-nel, facilities and some communications structure to support them.” Further, it states that “the DoD has not developed a results-orientated strategy to resolve challenges that affect the ability of the Air Force and the Army to train person-nel for UAS operations.”

One training issue the GAO report cited was the limited amount of DoD-controlled airspace in restricted-area training ranges in which to train forces

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on UAS prior to deployment. More such airspace will be required as more UAS are fielded, the report concluded. The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had tasked the JUAS COE to study US National Air Space (NAS) training requirements, and a resulting COE study determined that approximately 1.1 mil-lion flight training hours in the NAS would be needed by 2013. This issue is compounded by the fact that in addition to the need for training airspace at serv-ice bases and Combat Training Centers (CTCs), National Guard units will also need to find more areas for UAS training as they acquire those systems.

In the interest of civil aviation safety, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires that any UAS operator, including DoD and other governmen-tal agencies that wish to operate in the NAS submit a Certificate of Authorization (COA) for approval describing in detail the parameters of any proposed UAS mission. Upon approval, the COAs allow limited NAS access, usually restricted by time and area of operation, along with other rules. The JUAS assists the serv-ices with COA approval while working towards wider access to the NAS.

“What we have done is gone to each one of the services within DoD to where we now have set up a DoD-FAA-DHS-NASA Executive Committee,” said Lt. Col. Steve Tanner, who is in charge of the JUAS COE Operations Branch. “We work for the Office of the Secretary of Defense UAS Task Force under the Airspace Inte-gration Integrated Product Team as our formal mechanism for requesting and getting major procedural and policy changes done between the departments.”

According to Lt. Col. Rudy Riden-baugh, Deputy Director of the JUAS COE Training Team, the organization supports and promotes DoD UAS research, includ-ing that on ground-based sense-and-avoid programs that are being developed to allow UAS to deconflict with air traffic in the NAS.

“We are the operational input for these systems,” Ridenbaugh pointed out. “As these systems mature in those locations where the DoD flies UAS, that area will hopefully expand. We need these airspaces to train our pilots and operations, need access to test and train our forces before they are deployed, and need COCOM access for real-world missions that depart from our CONUS stateside locations.”

UAS Training StandardsAnother way the JUAS COE is support-ing DoD access to the NAS is through the development of standardized training requirements for UAS aircrews. One result of its effort in this area is the Joint Chair-man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction 3255.01, Joint Unmanned Aircraft Sys-tems Minimum Training Standards. All DoD UAS programs are transitioning to comply with these standards by October 2011. According to this document, this instruction “standardizes the minimum knowledge of basic UAS and joint UAS mission qualifications for joint UAS crew members. These qualification standards meet or exceed existing FAA manned air-craft training standards in order to facili-tate UAS access to the NAS.”

“There currently is no civilian stand-ard through which you can say that a person is qualified for UAS operations or not,” Tanner pointed out. “So we got collaboration amongst the services to agree that there should be some baseline UAS training standard, because there is no civilian standard which the services can use to look at and compare their pro-grams with.”

“ In the long run,” Tanner continued, “the FAA will use that kind of document because nobody else is producing these things to look at when the agency comes about to make civilian (training) require-ments for UAS operational issues. We are trying to provide a more concise, formal message about what is necessary for the DoD and present that to the FAA using the background expertise and opportu-nity that we have had to operate UAS for the past ten to fifteen years to kind of

mold the way the FAA is going. We can now say that our pilots and operators are trained to a certain level. We can then use that to help us gain greater access to the NAS, which helps our training readi-ness ultimately.”

UAS Classification SystemAlso embedded into the UAS Mini-mum Training Standards document is a UAS classification system developed by the JUAS COE staff, which will also be required to be adopted throughout the DoD next year. This system categorizes various types of UAS into five groups, based on characteristics such as weight, maximum operating altitude capability, allowable airspace categories and speed. For example, Group 1 is made up of UAS with aircraft that typically weigh less than 20 pounds, and can operate under visual flight rules (VFR) in Class E, G, and Restricted and Uncontrolled airspace at speeds less than 250 knots.

“Every service has had their own UAS classification scheme and different names for the systems, so it was almost impossible to get a size, altitude and dol-lar cost comparison when everyone was referencing platforms with similar capa-bilities as having different attributes and names,” Ridenbaugh said. “So we came up with the Group I through 5 classifica-tion system and linked those with FAA objectives.”


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“This is a home run,” he continued, “because now all the services, all the programs on the acquisition side and the FAA are all talking the same sheet of music. So now we have basic UAS stand-ardization across the DoD and the Fed-eral enterprise, like the DHS.”

Data Standards and TrainingAs the number of operational UAS increases, so too does the torrent of real-time video for immediate situational awareness interpretation and other UAS sensor data for later analysis. According to Ridenbaugh, there was no standard for interpreting video data, so there was nothing for analysts to train to for quali-fication. The JUAS COE helped push through such standards, so now the services have minimum training criteria in their analyst training programs, he pointed out.

Reportedly more than 24 million min-utes of video data has been recorded by DoD UAS aircraft and stored in reposi-tories, but except for real-time data piped to field commanders, much of what remains for later analysis can be useless if there is no way for analysts to know what is available or how to retrieve

it. Just recently, the DoD is looking at the way the sports networks are able to quickly access video recorded at sport-ing events to help resolve this problem. Defense Industry Daily recently reported that the Air Force will acquire a $500 mil-lion computer system that will enable it to employ such TV broadcast techniques for UAS data analysis.

“There is a tidal wave of information, and we try to bring it back to the com-manders in the field,” Ridenbaugh said. “With more UAS capabilities out there, we have to stay one step ahead of the game.”

Combined EffortsIn addition to helping resolve UAS opera-tional and training issues for the US serv-ices in CONUS, the JUAS also coordi-nates with NATO and Coalition partners to help facilitate joint international UAS operations. The agency has incorporated NATO Standard Agreements (STANAGs) for UAS operations and interoperability, and helps to resolve restricted airspace issues for UAS training in countries with US bases and operations.

Representatives from six UAS oper-ating partner countries – Canada, Ger-


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many, Denmark, Finland, Italy and Spain – participated in the semi-annual JUAS COE Advisory Council meeting held this May at the Joint Warfighting Center in Suffolk, Va., along with nearly 200 US service, combatant commands and gov-ernment agency personnel to discuss current UAS issues and future priorities. Some of the recommendations that were made at the meeting included joint train-ing requirements for ground unit intelli-gence, surveillance and reconnaissance planners and integrators and the updat-ing of motion imagery (video) analyst competency requirements.

“We are pretty much able to con-nect the dots and have a wide group of people that we operate with to propose and advocate UAS solutions,” Tanner summed up. “We also work to identify the best of breed – great ideas that need to be championed to the other services. We bring the unbiased part into the con-flict, with credibility for all sides. There is more effective work being conducted on UAS at all levels. This is going to be criti-cal. If we enter into a fiscally constrained environment in the future, we really are going to have to work together to come up with joint solutions.” ms&t

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February 11, 1934 in Newark, N.J. was cold and foggy, with low-hanging clouds and shiv-

ering rain. The Army Air Corps officials standing alongside the airfield concluded that the man they wanted to talk to about his pilot training device would not be arriving on that soupy day. About to leave, they heard an engine humming overhead and saw an aircraft breaking through the clouds. Its pilot was Ed Link, and he had flown all the way from Binghamton, N.Y. despite the inclement weather. It was clear to the waiting officials that anyone who could make the 200-mile journey from Binghamton, N.Y. to Newark flying by instruments alone could fly anywhere. Officials in Washington, D.C. were imme-diately notified that funds needed to be secured to purchase Mr Link’s Pilot Maker. On June 23, 1934, the Army took delivery of the first six trainers.

Flying on the GroundNo-one could have dreamed up this suc-

cess story just seven years before when, in 1927, Ed first became seriously involved in flight training. He had learned basic fly-ing roaming around with “barnstormers” – stunt pilots and aerialists. And it was one reason why his father had thrown him out of the family business. Yet Ed still desper-ately wanted to become a licensed pilot. Since he had no plane of his own to fly, he got a feel for aeroplanes simply by taxi-ing them along the tarmac. He also found out that the French had used this method, dubbing it “penguin system” during World War I, with the result that they had better pilots than the Americans and the Brit-ish trained in a fraction of time the others had taken. At that point Ed realised that a device that provided all the movements and motions of taxiing aeroplanes would enable preliminary training to be done without ever having to leave the ground. It was a shortcut to flying that would con-siderably reduce overall training costs. He started assembling a mobile cockpit rep-lica that was intended to respond to the

controls in a similar way to an aeroplane. Ed largely benefited from the expertise he had gained in his father’s factory, which produced coin-operated electric pianos and movie theatre pipe organs. He used prefabricated piano and organ parts, elec-tric vacuum pumps and bellows to provide the air pressure needed for the movements his device made. At the same time, Ed continued taxiing up and down the Ben-nett Field runway in a friend’s aeroplane to get a feel for what was needed to trans-fer the sensations of a moving aircraft to a stationary simulator as closely as possible. In the end, this proved to be the most diffi-cult part of the process. His Pilot Maker, as he called it, was finally operational in early 1929. In April 1929 he submitted an initial patent application. Many experts consider this to be the start of the simulation age.

From Gadget to SeriousHangar FlyingLink’s first apparatus consisted of the con-trol base with a universal joint on which


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was mounted a scaled-down plywood fuselage. It looked quite simple, but in its day it was a masterpiece of mechanical engineer-ing. The physical movements of the control devices were trans-lated into pneumatic signals that moved the flight control surfaces and caused the trainer fuselage to roll, pitch or yaw just as the real aeroplane would. A series of bellows and motors gasped and wheezed as they whirled the mock-up aircraft, with its stunted wings, around. Ed’s device was fitted with a recording device for automatic scoring and recording the number of errors the student had made while operating it. And he equipped it with a coin slot! “My invention relates to a combination training device for student aviators and entertainment apparatus,” was how Ed described his invention. The first advertisement listed the Pilot Maker as “an efficient aeronautical training aid” and “a novel, profitable amuse-ment feature”. Though his device was received as an aviation novelty, even the magazine “Science and Invention” stressed the device’s great entertainment value, suggesting that it would make “a valuable adjunct to the multitude of golf courses that now dot the country”. To Link’s great regret he saw his device belittled as a training feature and downgraded to some sort of coin-operated hobbyhorse. At that point he decided that he had to open his own flying school to prove the training value of his Pilot Maker. He set up a classroom and trainer in the basement of his father’s factory in Binghamton. With his novel training approach, using a ground-based training device to impart basic flying skills, he managed to reduce the usual fifteen hours in the air to two. In turn this enabled him to advertise that pilots could “learn to fly for eighty-five dol-lars”, thereby attracting more than one hundred flight enthusiasts in 1930 alone. But the scenario suddenly changed when his flying school lost its home after his father’s piano factory folded in the aftermath of the 1929 depression. One bright spot in these dark early 1930s was his marriage to Marion Clayton, which put the Link Aeronautical Corporation, as his company was now called, on a more business-like footing. Marion also wrote the curriculum for the flying school – based on Ed’s dictations. Thus she most prob-ably published one of the first books on how to fly.

By 1932, his company had sold almost fifty Pilot Makers to amusement parks, but only three to aviation professionals. Just one flight school, the JVC Corporation, bought three trainers for “hangar flying”, as ground training was sometimes disparag-ingly called. True business success failed to materialise. Sales prices ranging from $300 to $500 a piece hardly covered pro-duction costs. Despite this, Ed continued improving his trainer. One trainer he had sold in 1932 to the U.S. Navy in Pensacola was completely instrumented. The officials there were deeply impressed and would have liked to buy five more for their instru-ment training. The naval authorities in Washington, however, did not feel that it would save enough time and money. In the same year, Ed loaned one trainer to the New Jersey National Guard at Newark Airport, which in turn presented the device to officers of the Army Air Corps for validation. Although most of the mili-tary experts agreed that the Army should make the Pilot Maker standard equipment at all airfields, no orders were received – for budgetary reasons. It would take a national disaster to help the Pilot Maker finally win through.

Learning from Bad Experience In early 1934, the U.S. Army Air Corps was tasked with delivering domestic airmail. It was an attempt to save money, but brought death and disaster instead. During the first week the Army lost

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five pilots, mostly because military pilots were not qualified to fly in bad weather and at night-time. At that point Ed Link’s Pilot Maker came to the fore. On Febru-ary 10, 1934, he was summoned to come to Newark the next day to present his trainer’s blind flying training capabilities to Army officials. That was when he made his very convincing 200-mile instrument-only flight. Due to the sluggish procure-ment process, however, his trainers did not enter the Army’s inventory until after the airlines had resumed airmail service. The chaotic experiment had killed twelve pilots and crashed sixty-five Army planes. Yet it meant the big breakthrough for Ed’s Pilot Maker. By this time all the experts had recognised that pilots needed instru-ment flying skills. Since “blind flying” training in the actual aircraft was both dangerous and costly, a ground trainer needed to take over.

A month later, Link Aeronautical Corporation started exporting the first of ten trainers to Japan. Ed Link later found out that one trainer had been completely taken apart, obviously in an attempt to copy every detail. The Japanese, how-ever, failed in their attempts to reassem-ble it. The next foreign order came from the Russian Amtorg Trading Corporation, purchasing four “Model A” trainers. Eng-land and France joined the buyer list and, following more military orders, Ed estab-lished a new company, Link Aviation, Inc., to manufacture the training devices. Link’s “C-series” appeared in 1936 and featured a full-scale instrument panel and a separate desk assembly for an instruc-tor. Some improvements – a mechanism to simulate wind drift and a remote indi-cation panel for the instructor – resulted in the new “D” trainer only a year later.

Supplying the Good Guys and the BadMost “D” types were sold to Europe, where nations were gearing up for war. Even though the instruments were standard, the markings conformed to the customer’s language and practices. A contract with the British Royal Air Force for the delivery of some one hundred Link D trainers led to the founding of a company in Canada. The “E-type” was produced from 1938 onwards. It offered indications for a simulated instrument landing system (ILS) and an automatic direction finder (ADF). Its panel was no longer generic, but featured exactly

that panel found in the aircraft the pilots were training to fly. The Link E trainer was exported in large numbers to user nations worldwide, including Germany and Japan, even after war had broken out in 1939, in a fairly naive attempt to maintain the United States’ neutral role. When, in December 1941, the United States entered World War II, thirty-five nations from both warring parties were using Link trainers, and it seems an irony of fate that the pilots of the Japanese Imperial Navy might have acquired their instrument flying skills for their attack on Pearl Harbor on a Link trainer.

Now, with the United States at war, the Air Corps, Navy and Coast Guard took over overall production in the Link facilities, demanding new and even more realistic trainers. If more young men had to become pilots in less time, there would have to be trainers that were able to reproduce as many flight characteris-tics as possible. The improvements and modifications Ed Link and his engineers made to the previous model resulted in a new model designation: the ANT-18 (Army Navy Trainer model 18). It was one of the first training devices that followed military standards and was the most advanced state-of-the-art at the time, both in terms of realism and accuracy. A further development followed two years later, when the ANT-18 was adapted to the AT-6-SNJ single-engine training air-craft. It was the first time that a ground trainer was designed to represent the characteristics and peculiarities of a spe-cific aeroplane as closely as possible. The C-8/IC-A1 trainer delivered to the Army/Navy in 1945 was an early version of an operational flight trainer and was used to teach all phases of elementary and advanced instrument flying, including radio navigation, radio range and loop

orientation, instrument landing systems, voice procedure, and flight and engine instrument familiarisation.

Great MeritsBy end of the War, more than ten thou-sand Link Trainers had been produced. At the height of production the “Blue Boxes”, as the Link Trainers were called on account of their blue paintwork, had left the assembly line at a rate of one every forty-five minutes. During World War II, over half a million Allied airmen qualified on Link Trainers. The great contribution Ed Link and his Pilot Maker made to war-time aviation training has been noted in official reports on more than one occa-sion. His Trainer saved lives, costs and freed up men and aircraft for combat. In 2000 the Link Flight Trainer was declared “A Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark”, and in 2003 Ed Link was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. However, the finest compliment Ed received came from one grateful cus-tomer, Air Marshall Robert Leckie, war-time Chief of Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force, who observed that, “the Luft-waffe met its Waterloo on all the training fields of the free world where there was a battery of Link Trainers.” ms&t

AcknowledgementsThe author wishes to thank L-3 Link Simulation & Training for providing in-depth information about Ed Link and his famous Pilot Maker. Particular thanks goes to Rick Oyler, whose interesting anecdotes about the inventor gave the author great impetus to write the article.


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This year’s ITEC was held from 18 to 20 May 2010 at the ExCeL London, UK. While

most attendees felt there were fewer people in the corridors and most exhibi-tors spoke about rather slow traffic, the organisers, Clarion Events, has confirmed attendee numbers of more than 2,900 at this year’s show – a 20% increase on 2009 – and the quality of the visitors counts. Exhibitors were consistently full of praise when it came to valuable con-tacts. Even better was that last year’s absentees gave a positive assessment of the event: “We have had a very good show … and we have seen customers from several continents,” said Thorsten Heinzen, Rheinmetall Defence’s Senior Vice President, Simulation and Training. “ITEC has proved to be an excellent plat-form for Metrix in the past,” explained Christopher Moseley, Communications Director, Metrix UK, “and in this critically important year we thought it very impor-tant to return to the event.” And Anders

Løkke from projectiondesign, first-time exhibitor in 2009, confirmed that the show exceeded their expectations in terms of visitor quality: “It created a lot of interest from visitors and professionals working in the simulation and education markets.”

The ITEC 2010 conference commit-tee, chaired by Anne O’Reilly, Manag-ing Director Mabway UK, had been very ambitious with regard to the variety of subjects and the number of presen-tations. Most topics revolved around training, looking at all domains of train-ing, investigating the most diverse uses. Practical applications that directly help soldiers and operators to execute their mission were covered, including cur-rent topics like counter-IED training. But modeling and simulation other than training was also on the agenda, for example data farming, support across the acquisition life cycle and decision support. Overall, conference participants appeared satisfied.

Senior PanelKeynote speaker Lieutenant General Paul Newton, recently appointed Com-mander Force Development and Train-ing, British Army, UK, said that his com-mand had been giving some thought to how to ensure that the army is a learn-ing organisation. “An institution does not learn until it has done something with the knowledge it has gathered, and we intend to put our lessons learned right at the heart of constantly adapting our doc-trine and our training,” he said. “We are looking at ways to involve our partners, be they providers of training support or of equipment, more directly in that.” Rear Admiral Chris Snow, Flag Officer Sea Training and Rear Admiral Surface Ships, Royal Navy, UK, the event’s senior host, sees the real challenge as “Training regu-lar forces to face an irregular threat”. He also took up an idea introduced by the previous speaker, namely that training has to go beyond Afghanistan. For Rear Admiral Joseph F. Kilkenny, Commander,


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Naval Education and Training Command, US Navy, United States, today’s challenge is that we have to train “multiple foes”, and some may not be found in conven-tional military areas, for instance cyber-space. Captain Rainer Endres, GE Navy, Director Naval Development, Training and Education, stressed the importance of standards when training with part-ners. However, despite all the techno-logical evolution in training, the primary asset was personnel. The only civilian on the panel, John D. Harris, President of Raytheon Technical Services Company, United States, presented a most effective business model. At the U.S. Army Intel-ligence Center School in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 1,700 civilians, nearly all of them former soldiers themselves recruited for their in-theatre experience, are providing more than 40% of the training force for irregular warfare training. “Substituting industry for military personnel enables more warfighters to serve where they are needed most – on the front line – while still maintaining the ethos required to perform the mission,” he said.

ExhibitorsMore than 150 companies displayed training and simulation products and services. 47 companies were new to ITEC, among them Northrop Grum-man and Havelsan from Turkey. All the big North American players had booths; RUAG and Barco were missing from the big European league, as was Thales. The trend is towards modesty: smaller stands, less hands-on hardware, and more mod-els and memory sticks. Here are some items that caught MS&T editors’ eyes.

The FR12 Remote Light Source projector series designed by Norway’s projectiondesign® revolutionises the way a projector is installed. The Remote Light Source technology removes the projector bulb from the projection head; locates it up to 30m away, and does away with all traditional concerns such as noise and heat management, installa-tion orientation, lamp replacement and maintenance scheduling. Equipe’s G10 IG powered visualisation on the projec-tiondesign booth.

MSE Weibull showcased ILTTUS, an instrumented training system for force-on-force training in an urban environ-ment. It is based on Vitrius, a real-time 3D motion-tracking system, developed by the Swiss company TENETEC. It identifies

and tracks passive smart tags extremely efficiently down to the centimetre.

Kongsberg’s protector Training System, a training solution for armoured vehicle personnel, follows the trend towards conscious simplicity. The modu-lar system supports the full spectrum of training from basic skills to crew, and networked multi-crew training. Origi-nally developed for the Protector Remote Weapon System, its generic design approach permits adaptation to any vehi-cle and remote weapon station.

SAIC presented the newly acquired oLIVE 3-D (Online Interactive Virtual Environment), now a member of the company’s The SimInsight™ plat-form. Integrated into an Afghan check-point scenario, it demonstrated how the SimInsight products are able to quickly develop rich synthetic environments for training and mission rehearsal.

NavShoe™, an inertial-based per-sonnel tracking system, has obvious mili-tary utility in built-up areas where GPS is denied, but could also have applica-tion for fire and police activity. Accuracy is given as 1% of distance travelled, and the inertial equipment can be built into a boot or shoe.

An I-Pod®-based version of the Insight identification and recognition tool from DTM Global can hold up to 1500 3-D models of ground vehicles, air-craft, warships and missiles. The images can be viewed from any aspect or range. Insight™ Mobile is shortly to be trialled for the first time by the UK Army Aviation Centre.

Bohemia Interactive Simulations demonstrated their Virtual Battlespace (VBS) 2 system, which now also simulates air and sea environments, for a variety of applications, including mission rehearsal and tactical training up to Combat Team

level, combined arms or joint training, and specialist procedural training.

Boeing is marketing new classroom training software in which an ‘intelligent instructor’ sets tasks for the students – in this case, Chinook maintainers – and provides feedback and associated logic as the student correctly or incorrectly performs the assigned tasks.

The Defence Training Review (DTR), ‘seeks to transform the way spe-cialist training is delivered to better support the future needs of the Armed Forces’. Package 1 of the DTR involves the provision of the Defence Technical College at St Athan in Glamorgan, which will subsume existing technical training for the 3 services. A mood of optimism is evident in the Metrix Consortium, the preferred bidder for Package 1; the con-sortium, led by QinetiQ and Sodexo, has been awarded an early-works contract, and a full contract decision is anticipated before the end of this year.

The role-playing services offered at the small booth of the UK company Amputees in Action Ltd. are very dif-ferent from any other on offer at ITEC. By using and combining the techniques of amputees acting the part of casual-ties and clinical special effects (SFX), the company replicates traumatic injuries that are so close to reality that trainees can scarcely bear it. Yet it is simulation, preparing users for real situations they must bear.

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The operation of UAVs, given prominence by wide employ-ment in Iraq and Afghani-

stan, is one of the most rapidly devel-oping areas of defence today. IQPC’s UAV Training and Simulation Conference 2010, London, 25/26 May, focused on the training and other issues that enhance – or in some cases limit – their exploita-tion. The programme included presen-tations from the US Air Force, Army and Marine Corps; the RAF and Army, the Belgian, Canadian, Swiss, and Italian Armed Forces, and NATO.

Micro-, mini- and tactical UAVs are operated by ground forces, and the oper-ational and strategic by air forces. Pre-senters unsurprisingly reflected the size of their UAV forces, the complexity and roles of the vehicles, and the intensity of operations. Nevertheless, some com-mon themes emerged. Perhaps the most pressing issue discussed was not UAV training, but recruitment and retention. It is estimated that there will be a world-

wide annual requirement for 1500 new UAV pilots at the tactical level and above.

The increase in UAV pilot require-ment is partly mitigated by budget-driven decreases in manned aircraft; however, there is an insatiable appetite for more capability in operational thea-tres. The USAF goal for the Predator/Reaper force is a total of 65 permanently manned CAPs (Combat Air Patrol); this requires 1650 aviators. Both USAF and RAF recognised some time ago that this could not be met from existing sources. Both have taken qualified aircrew from other systems to plug the gap, and both have diverted students from the pilot training system to UAV. It is recognised that this may create a mismatch between aspiration and achievement, with con-sequent implications for retention. The creation of a specialist career in UAV operations is the preferred USAF solu-tion; the Beta Program was a trial of ab-initio UAV training and this has recently been formalised as a new career path.

On a much smaller scale, the RAF is tri-alling the training of non-rated officers from the Ops Support Branch. If adopted, this option may attract candidates who score highly in aptitude testing but who are unable, usually for medical reasons, to undertake pilot training.

‘Crew’ composition also varied, with 2-man (pilot and payload operator) the most common. The USMC’s RQ7 Shadow concept involved a rated Unmanned Aircraft Commander, supervising an unrated Air Vehicle Operator and Mis-sion Payload Operator. The UK Army’s tactical UAVs required an ‘Authorising Officer’ to supervise less qualified oper-ating crew, and the Belgian B-Hunter crew comprised an officer Mission Com-mander leading NCO Pilot/Navigator and Real-Time Observer, none of them rated or with any flight time. The extent to which the mission analysts were an integral part of the team also varied. The crew of the Canadian Heron includes 3 intelligence analysts.


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Another major topic was the quali-fication and clearance necessary to fly UAVs in civil airspace, and over popu-lated areas. Flight over populated areas is essentially an aircraft safety issue, and UAVs must satisfy the same airworthi-ness criteria as other aircraft. Flight outside restricted areas (ie with no posi-tive co-ordination) relies on an element of ‘see and avoid’. To what extent the ability of a UAV to ‘sense-and-avoid‘ might satisfy this requirement is open to debate. In Bosnia and Kosovo, UAVs shared airspace with civil traffic, albeit imposing restrictions on that traffic which would only be tolerated in war-time. The dictionary definition of ‘pilot’ is “a person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft”; ICAO states that “The pilot-in-command of an aircraft shall, whether manipulating the con-trols or not, be responsible for the opera-tion of the aircraft in accordance with the rules of the air”. Arguably, a UAV pilot meets these criteria and, provided the aircraft is suitably equipped and the pilot properly qualified, procedural flight in controlled airspace ought to be possible, although opinion on the rat-ing requirement varied widely. Training packages and simulators are often ‘late additions’ to any procurement piece, but as civil airspace opens to UAV operators, and the licensing requirements become more defined, this aspect will drive a significant level of commitment. Simu-lation tended to take a back seat in this

forum; however, the eternal argument about simulator fidelity and form-fit-function in manned aviation falls neatly into the lap of UAV simulator supporters: no G-force required! With limitations on training airspace, frequencies, non-com-bat airframes and representative target sets, the use of ‘live fly’ UAV training has even fewer advocates. Simulator com-panies need to be aware of this window of opportunity.

The approach taken to manning and training UAV forces reflected the type and intensity of operations envis-aged. The Belgian Forces, although having deployed UAVs in Bosnia and Congo, are now home-based, albeit in the “worst place in Europe to fly a UAV” – dense population, congested airspace and a saturated EM environment. The Italian Air Force has operated Strip-C in Afghanistan and Somalia, and Predator/Reaper in Iraq. However, pride of place in the intensity stakes must go to the Predator/Reaper operation covering the Iraq and Afghanistan theatres and con-trolled from Creech AFB in Nevada. I have mentioned the 65 CAPs and 1650 aviators required. At a time when RPA (Remotely Piloted Aircraft) are set to become the largest weapons system in the USAF, experience and proficiency are at an all-time low; the Reaper train-ing unit is manned at 40% of authoriza-tion, and any UAV pilot “with 2 years experience and a pulse” becomes an instructor. In this environment, there

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is no such thing as measured testing – every new piece of capability goes straight to theatre. The Reaper arrived in March 2007 and was in combat by September. The development of the air-craft has far outstripped the provision of simulators; the Predator has a full-scale simulator, but it is not network capable; the Reaper has no simulator at all.

As regards initiatives to get more from less, some sort of award has to go to ‘Multi-Aircraft Control’ whereby 4 UAVs are controlled by one pilot, with help from 4 sensor operators, the whole ensemble accommodated in a converted NASCAR trailer. This lucky individual has 4 keyboards, 4 mice and 10 dis-plays to keep him occupied, and make a one-armed paper-hanger look under-employed. His tactical situation dis-play is auto-scaled, so that if one of his CAPs is over Nevada and another over Afghanistan, it looks like an atlas.

In sum, this was an entertaining and informative conference. I will leave the last word to the Conference Chairman, Squadron Leader Keven Gambold:

“This was the first IQPC UAV Train-ing and Simulator Conference, and showed considerable promise for the future. To get many nations in the same room, highlighting the same problems and mulling over the various solutions is the raison d’être of these gatherings. Ironically, these unmanned meetings need the men (and women) to meet in person to push the field along”. ms&t

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carried out users tests in flat and moun-

tainous terrain and the system evaluation

trials will continue in Toledo until its final

validation at the end of June.

LM launches Prepar3D Training Solution – lockheed Martin launched its

next-generation Prepar3D software inter-

face that provides soldiers with realistic

war game simulations. The simulation

technology is based on the open standard

Distributed interactive simulation and

stems from lockheed’s 2009 agreement

with Microsoft to develop the company's

EsP flight training technology.

The Distributed interactive simula-

tion is used by military forces for con-

ducting real-time war games across mul-

tiple computers for air and ground vehicle

platform-level applications, according to

lockheed Martin, which developed Prep-

ar3D to provide soldiers a robust training

solution in a simulated environment.

Alion Army Radar and Combat Iden-tification – alion science and Technol-

ogy won a $3 million contract from the

U.s. army to provide spectrum manage-

ment and electromagnetic compatibility

(EMC) analysis that will allow the army to

test and provide training for the new radar

systems it is developing. The ground-

based and airborne radar and combat

identification (iD) systems are being

designed to give warfighters the best tar-

get tracking, aircraft surveillance, perim-

eter protection and superior technologies

to identify friendly forces from foes.

Organic Motion STAGETM Military Tracking System – Organic Motion sold

lockheed Martin its sTaGETM Military

Tracking system (MTs), which eliminates

the use of attached tracking devices. The

computer vision system will be installed

at lockheed Martin simulation, Training

and support's Orlando, Fla., office, where

lockheed is developing multi-platform

simulation and training solutions. Having

it there will allow lockheed to leverage

sTaGE MTs for future applications of

multi-person tracking and virtual reality

training programs.

Air Force TrainingInterSense, Link - US Air Force F-16 Mission Training – intersense will inte-

grate its is-900 precision motion tracking

system into link’s simusphere HD dis-

play to for a solution designed to support

the air Force to increase pilot readiness

and reduce costs. link will supply up to

20 F-16 MTCs at air Force bases in the

U.s., Europe, and Pacific regions.

Each MTC will have four training

devices with intersense’s is-900 inertial/

ultrasonic tracking technology that

produces precise, low-latency motion

tracking of a pilot’s movements in real

time and is critical for a more realistic

training environment. it provides head

tracking over an immersive, 360º field of

view when integrated into solutions such

as link’s simusphere® HD, advanced Hel-

met Mounted Display (aHMD), or other

fixed or rotary wing training platforms.

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The overall solution will allow F-16 pilots

to detect, identify and engage targets

from the same apparent distance as

when flying a real mission – creating an

optimum environment for advanced pilot

training, tactics validation and mission

rehearsal.

Ied TrainingMetal Storm IED Training – Metal

storm delivered the first of 45 improvised

Explosive Device (iED) Training Kits to

the Us Marine Corps air Ground Combat

Center in Palms, California. Metal storm

is manufacturing the kits to be delivered

to U.s. Marines Explosive Ordnance

Disposal (EOD) teams around the world.

The iED Training Kits include equipment

and materials that replicate iEDs found in

combat. With the kits, EOD personnel can

construct their own iED devices using

the same or similar components that are

found in iED's used by the enemy – mak-

ing training as realistic as possible.

naval Training Boeing, L3 Deliver Super Hornet Trainers to US Navy – Boeing and l-3

link simulation & Training announced

that they have delivered two F/a-18E/F

super Hornet Tactical Operation Flight

Trainers (TOFT) to the U.s. navy at naval

air station (nas) Oceana, Va., and have

declared them "Ready for Training." The

devices offer aircrews the same Opera-

tional Flight Program used in the Boeing-

built super Hornet aircraft.

SAIC - US Naval Surface Warfare Center Award – science applications

international Corporation (saiC) won

an $80 million follow-on seaport-e task

order from the U.s. naval surface Warfare

Center (nsWC) Dahlgren Division to

provide systems engineering and training

analysis services to the Center for surface

Combat systems (CsCs) in Dahlgren, Va.,

and at other CsCs Elements and Detach-

ments. CsCs prepares and qualifies

sailors to correctly maintain, operate and

employ surface ship weapon and combat

systems during sustained combat opera-

tions at sea. saiC will provide systems

engineering and training services to CsCs

and the aegis Training and Readiness

Center including manpower and person-

nel; infrastructure; training management;

and technical and international programs.

New DCNS Royal Malaysian Navy Scorpene Sub Simulation Contract

– DCns has signed a contract with the


The CaDsi (Canadian association of

Defence and security industries) spon-

sored CansEC 2010 was held 2-3 June

in Ottawa’s lansdowne Park. some 250

exhibitors demonstrated their capabili-

ties and their wares in three indoor halls

and in a large outdoor display space.

CansEC provides a venue for mili-

tary, security, first responders, and gov-

ernment officials to learn about existing

industry capabilities and new technolo-

gies - in a sense, to learn the art of the

possible - across the broad range of mili-

tary technologies. likewise it provides an

opportunity for industry to speak directly

with their customers. the vast majority

of exhibitors displayed and demonstrated

current capabilities and accomplish-

ments, but with a sharp focus on future

procurements in all domains, such as

shipbuilding. in a significant announce-

ment, the Canadian Defence Minister,

Peter MacKay, laid out the government’s

plan for for a restructured naval and coast

guard shipbuilding programme - focussed

on two ‘national’ shipyards and $35 bil-

lion over the next 30 years. The Chief of

Defence staff, General Walter natynczyk,

earlier in the day noted wryly that it has

been 14 years since the last major war-

ship had been launched in Canada, and

that Canada would soon own the oldest

frontline warship in the western world -

38 years old, adding “We need to cut steel

on new ships!”

Even amongst the general broad

thrust of the show, simulation and train-

ing companies were well represented.

some companies with significant simula-

tion and training capabilities, like Thales

and Elbit downplayed these capabilities

preferring to focus on the bigger picture.

looking for a training focus, Ms&T noted

the presence of CaE, Presagis, atlan-

tis systems, Christie, Meggitt, nGRain,

and Rockwell Collins. all were showcas-

ing their capabilities with respect to the

present as well as the future. Ms&T also

noted two emerging Canadian compa-

nies - C4i of Calgary, alberta, and Mil-

siM-FX of Tillsonburg, Ontario.

C4i Consultants showcased their two

simulation products - EDMsiM, an emer-

gency and disaster management simu-

lation, and MilsiM, a “flexible, portable,

constructive simulation.” Both products

are said to be characterised by ease of set

up and ease of use.

Mil-siM-FX specialises in a line of

non pyrotechnic, reusable, iED detection/

reaction training simulators that create

an effective audio and visual report - with

compressed CO2 and talcum powder. The

devices can be integrated with MOUT,

convoy and live fire training systems.

and finally a non technical initia-

tive where success depends on how the

technology is being used. FTCE, (Flight

Test Centre of Excellence), Ottawa, is

achieving a significant measure of suc-

cess in flight test training using a prob-

lem or scenario based learning approach

that leverages simulation (both ground

and flight based) to provide the problem

space. They noted significant gains in

both training effectiveness and efficiency

over traditional lecture heavy formats.

Tim Page, President of CaDsi, notes

that the over 9000 registrants, from 75

government departments, was the larg-

est number ever. Page observed the

show is growing in size, scope and depth.

“The show provided a clear demonstra-

tion of the capability available to defence

and security customers in the Canadian

industrial base” – Jeff loube

CAnseC 2010

Royal Malaysian navy (RMn) for the

supply of a scorpene submarine simulator

and services allowing extensive train-

ing around navigation safety, combat

system, including sensors, and periscope

operations for scorpene submarines. This

contract, worth around Malaysian Ring-

git 128 million (about 27 million Euros),

underlines the continuous collaboration

of the Royal Malaysian navy with DCns

on the scorpene submarines program.

TCG - US Navy Training Squadron Contract – Tactical Communications

Group (TCG) won a contract with the

U.s. navy to provide realistic link 16

training for operators at the Whidbey

island, Washington naval air station – the

home of all navy tactical electronic attack

squadrons flying the Ea-6B Prowler and

Ea-18G Growler.

The navy's West Coast Ea-6B /

Ea-18G training squadron awarded this

contract to TCG to train pilots and ground

operational personnel on tactical data

link tactics, techniques, and procedures,

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Digimation Virtual Training for Navy Platforms – Digimation delivered

two virtual training projects for Global

Technical systems (GTs) and RiverHawk

Fast sea Frames. Digimation developed

a realistic interactive trainer for GTs’

advanced COTs Enclosure rack system

for navy platforms that mitigates the

effects of combat and environmental

shock events on the mission-critical com-

puter equipment housed inside.

ship simulationKongsberg Maritime has delivered a

Polaris ship's bridge simulator to the

Royal norwegian naval academy in

Bergen, norway. The specially developed

1:1 simulator features a 240 degree visual

system offering highly realistic scenarios

for officer training. it is designed as an

exact replica of the bridge aboard the

skjold class MTB (Missile Torpedo Boats),

which are regarded as one of the fastest

warships in the world with speeds of

more than 60 knots/h (110 km/h).

Training Aircraft and simsChina Delivers Training Aircraft to Egypt – China has delivered a local-

manufactured K-8E advanced training

aircraft to the Egyptian air Force (EaF)

in a ceremony celebrating the sino-

Egyptian co-production program. it is

the 120th and the last aircraft that the

Egyptian side receives from the Chinese

aviation Technology import-Export Coop-

eration (CaTiC) within the co-production

program.

Atlantis advanced Grob-120 FTD –

atlantis systems Corp. has announced

that it has signed a new contract with

allied Wings for the design and develop-

ment of an advanced level 5 Grob-120

FTD. also included in the agreement are

upgrades to existing courseware and

flight training equipment to enhance the

Canada Wings aviation Training Centre in

southport, Manitoba.

Pilot TrainingBoeing and RAAF Graduate First Locally-trained C-17 Pilots – aus-

tralia’s first in-country C-17 pilot training

program led by Boeing Defence australia

graduated its first two RaaF C-17 Globe-

master iii pilots. David Whyte and Pilot

Officer stephen Maunder received more

than 350 hours of Pilot initial Qualification

Exhibition

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(PiQ) programmed training from Boe-

ing instructors at RaaF Base amberley,

including 120 simulated flight hours in

the C-17 Globemaster iii aircrew Training

system (aTs).

The Boeing-developed C-17 aTs

consists of a loadmaster station, learn-

ing Center, various support systems and a

Weapons systems Trainer (WsT), which is

a realistic, full-motion simulator used for

pilot training.

Helicopter TrainingNew CAE Contracts – CaE announced

several contract awards for helicopter

training, including a contract to perform

a major upgrade to the Puma helicopter

training program at CaE's Medium sup-

port Helicopter aircrew Training Facility

(MsHaTF) in the United Kingdom. The

United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (UK

MoD) has also awarded CaE a contract

to perform a major upgrade on the Puma

helicopter simulator located at CaE's

MsHaTF at Royal air Force (RaF) Base

Benson. The UK MoD is upgrading 28

helicopters as part of the Puma life exten-

sion program.

Germany's procurement office

BWB (Bundesamt fur Wehrtechnik und

Beschaffung) has awarded CaE Germany

a contract to continue providing a range

of maintenance and training support

services at the Hans E. Drebing simula-

tor centre of the Germany army aviation

school in Bueckeburg. The new contract

covers the on-site maintenance for the

next six years of the 12 CaE-built heli-

copter simulators operated at the German

army aviation school.

Helicopter Training Centre Opens in Czech Republic – a new centre

was opened in april 2010 at the Ostrava

international airport, Czech Republic.

The facility in run by HTP Ostrava CZ,

which is a joint venture of lBs Trading,

THT Ostrava CZ and VR Group. at the

heart of the training facility is a modern

FTD (flight training device) produced by

CsTs Dinamika, the Centre for scientific

and Technical services Dinamika. The

Russian aircraft simulator manufacturer,

who also produced the training CBT, is a

leading provider of simulation technology

for Mi helicopters.

Maintenance Training CAE Canadian CC-130J Maintenance Training Contract – CaE won a C$90

million contract from lockheed Martin for

a CC-130J aircraft maintenance technician

training solution for the Government of

Canada. The contract was awarded under

the CC-130J in-service support (iss)

program for Canada's new fleet of 17 CC-

130J Hercules transport aircraft. This is the

second major CC-130J contract awarded

to CaE, following the contract award

last year directly from the Government

of Canada for a CC-130J aircrew training

solution under the Operational Training

systems Provider (OTsP) program.

HiQ Swedish Defence Order for Gripen Fighter Sim Maintenance –

HiQ has received a new sEK 14 million

order from the swedish Defence Materiel

administration (FMV) to maintain Jas

39a Gripen jet fighter flight simulators.

The simulators, which are used to train

both swedish and foreign pilots to fly the

Jas 39 Gripen, are being developed in

parallel with the aircraft.

Thales UK Royal Navy Maintainer Training – Thales UK has been awarded

the second phase of a contract for the

provision of interactive 3D media to

be used for training maintainers of the

long-range radar on the Royal navy new

Daring-class (Type 45) destroyers. This

second phase, under contract with BaE

insyte, is to provide sCORM conformant,

web-enabled, training media for Type 45

maintainer trainers.

Command & Control Training Elbit Systems Launches Next-Generation Joint Command and Staff Trainer – Elbit systems launched

its next-Generation Joint Command and

staff Trainer (CsT) at Eurosatory 2010.

The CsT is designed to enhance the

operational readiness of commanders and

staff personnel up to the division level, as

well as joint operations of ground, air and

maritime forces.

Ternion Wins $1.2 Million C2WSPTT Contract from US Air Force – Ternion

Corporation won a $1.2 million contract

from the Us air Force 505th Communi-

cations squadron (505 Cs) to continue

development on the Command and

Control Weapon system Part Task Trainer

(C2WsPTT), which is based on Ternion's

FlaMEs simulation Framework. Ternion

worked with the 505th Communica-

tions squadron (505 Cs) under the 505th

Command and Control Wing (505 CCW)

to develop the Command and Con-

trol Weapon system Part Task Trainer

(C2WsPTT).

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Missile systems TrainingThales Selects XPI's Tempest for ADAPT – XPi simulation has been

awarded a contract by Thales UK to supply

Tempest simulation software for the use

in the MoD/Thales aDaPT programme.

Thales was awarded the contract from

the MoD earlier this year for the air

Defence availability Project (aDaPT),

which includes through-life support of its

advanced starstreak missile system and

capability insertion for the next 10 years.

its choice of Tempest for the real time

generation of 3D imagery is not surprising

considering its long experience with the

software and the number of other projects

based on the Tempest aPi application

programmers interface.

Boeing Delivers Trainer for US Missile Defense System – The Boeing Company,

working with industry teammates and the

U.s. Missile Defense agency, delivered a

second GMD system Trainer (GsT) for the

Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD)

system at Fort Greely, alaska, that lets

warfighters train in a number of conditions

and operating environments. GMD is the

United states' only defense against long-

range ballistic missile threats.

synthetic Training environmentsBAE Systems Employs Presagis Software – Presagis announced that BaE

systems is using Vega Prime and Creator

software to create and display terrain and

entities to provide a synthetic emula-

tion of an airborne advanced targeting

pod to enhance training for frontline

Royal air Force aircrew and Forward air

Controllers. This is one application of BaE

systems' integrated aircrew Training

(iaT) program, integrating live, virtual and

constructive elements, into increasingly

complex training environments including

electronic warfare and air-to-air combat.

Presagis Terra Vista Support for OneSAF -– Presagis has announced the

availability of Terra Vista 6.1.1 with sup-

port for OnesaF Terrain Format version

8.0 (OTF-8). This new release provides

users with the ability to generate highly

detailed and correlated OTF-compliant

databases for OnesaF Objective system

(OOs) version 4.0 runtime environments.

Presagis Partners with Scalable Network Technologies – Presagis has

announced a partnership and reseller

agreement with scalable network Tech-

nologies (snT). This agreement creates

an out-of-the-box solution for highly

complex simulations requiring wired and

wireless network effects. sTaGE users

will be able to take advantage of snT's

cutting-edge communication models in

simulated scenarios, adding the rigors

and uncertainties of in-field communi-

cations like urban environment effects,

message delays or drops, signal jamming

and sophisticated cyber attacks.

Virtual worlds Daden Wins US Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge – UK Virtual Worlds

solution provider Daden limited has

won first place and second place prize

respectively in two categories of this

year’s inaugural Us Federal Govern-

ment’s Virtual World Challenge (FVWC).

Birmingham-based Daden entered both

its PiVOTE and Datascape systems into

the Challenge. The PiVOTE system was

announced winner in the skills building

category and Daden’s Datascape was

runner up in the collaboration category.

Mobile device TrainingBritish Army Developing iPad Appli-cation – The British army is one of the

first organizations in the UK to develop

an application for the new apple iPad.

Currently in the testing stage, the Fire

Control Orders application will be used by

soldiers at the Royal school of artillery in

larkhill, Wiltshire, replacing more conven-

tional training methods. Using interactive

individual and multi-user exercises, the

iPad application aims to provide a more

engaging - and therefore more effective -

training exercise.

Training range supportBoeing Team - US Air Force Test and Training System Proposal – a team

led by Boeing submitted a proposal to the

U.s. air Force for Phase 2 of the Com-

ITEC 2010 was the selected venue

for the signing of an innovative co-

operation agreement to boost the

effectiveness and resource efficiency of

the training undertaken by the United

states navy, the Royal navy, the Cana-

dian Forces navy and the German navy.

The four navies have agreed to create

a series of formal collaboration agree-

ments to maximize the effectiveness and

resource efficiency of their training and

education activities.

Bohemia interactive and Caspian

learning announced their partner-

ship to bring new military offerings to

market that, the companies expect, will

help solve current training and simula-

tion issues defence customers currently

face. Bohemia interactive brings its

VBs2 – Virtual Battlespace 2; Caspian

learning brings its 3D simulation

authoring software and engine, Think-

ing Worlds.

Other companies showcased new

products and developments at iTEC 2010:

• 3D perception launched its northstar

brand for its automatically aligning simu-

lation display solutions called northstar.

Central to the launch was the introduc-

tion of a new image-processing appliance

called northstar nBox, a next-generation

version of the company’s CompactUTM.

northstar nBox is a plug-and-play, zero

frame latency controller with intelligent

EDiD technology that scales, warps,

blends and color corrects content, outputs

to multiple projectors and seamlessly

displays imagery across all screen shapes.

• VT MÄK announced the launch of VR-

The World server, a new streaming ter-

rain solution. This new solution supports

a "virtual globe" style approach where

simulation and visualization applications

stream terrain directly from a server as

users move about the world. The server

was developed in conjunction with MÄK

partner Pelican Mapping, a company

that specializes in Gis, 3D visualization,

mapping, and location-based services.

MÄK also revealed the release of the

company's latest visualization product,

VR-Vantage XR.

• Raydon showcased its brand-new

MTRs Talon Robot virtual simulator and

Foster-Miller's Talon Robot at iTEC 2010

in london. Making its premiere this year

at iTEC as part of Raydon's Route Clear-

ance Training system, the manned Talon

robot virtual simulator will simulate the

durable, lightweight, tracked Talon robot

vehicle. This vehicle is used by combat

engineers when investigating a suspi-

cious object to determine if it is an iED.

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system (CRiis) program to help improve

the accuracy and realism of joint-service

test and training activities. CRiis is

designed to integrate with ground soldier,

low-dynamic ground and air vehicles,

watercraft, and highly dynamic and

maneuverable aircraft.

Corporate newsAlion DoD SNIM Technology Sup-port Contract – Under the software,

networks, information, Modeling and

simulation (sniM) Contract, alion will

focus on the DoD achieving better control

over and insight to data that supports

national security objectives. alion's team

will provide expertise and technical

assistance for software analysis, informa-

tion assurance, knowledge management,

and modeling and simulation.

sniM consolidates the customer-

funded efforts of three of the DoD's infor-

mation analysis Centers (iaCs) that work

under the Defense Technical information

Center (DTiC) and act as clearinghouses

for expertise and assistance with techni-

cal challenges. The contract combines

Technical area Tasks (TaTs) previously

performed under the Data and analysis

Center for software (DaCs), information

assurance Technology analysis Center

(iaTaC) and Modeling and simulation

information analysis Center (MsiaC).

Antycip Partnerships – antycip simu-

lation ltd. has announced a partnership

with Organic Motion, a leading compu-

ter vision company. antycip is now the

exclusive European provider of Organic

Motion's sTaGE™ military tracking

systems (MTs), a breakthrough technol-

ogy for a wide range of military simulated

training programmes.

antycip will be working with

autodesk as a channel partner for the

management of autodesk training and

simulation activities. antycip simula-

tion will provide support for training and

simulation customers in Europe using

autodesk’s Kynapse middleware, its arti-

ficial intelligence (ai) product. autodesk

Kynapse is a widely used ai middleware

that can be used to help create highly

realistic military, security, industrial, and

urban planning simulations.

Cubic – Cubic Corporation is collaborat-

ing with RhinoCorps to develop a deploy-

able and expandable immersive training

system to improve the performance of

security teams and planners. The "core"

system will be designed to deliver train-

ing in the computer-based constructive

training domain and can be expanded to

include virtual and live training domains.

Cubic's innovation and Technology

Center, based in Orlando's Research Park

complex, is leading the development effort.

a defense division of Cubic Corpora-

tion developed a new weapon simulator

called the M134D Virtual Trainer that

replicates the characteristics of a Gatling-

style gun, firing up to 3,000 rounds a

minute – and Cubic already has $5 million

in contracts to supply it and other train-

ing equipment to multiple locations in the

United states. he simulator is modeled

after the M134D Minigun, a six-barrel

electric-powered machine gun that fires

7.62mm rifle rounds.

a team of three Cubic employees

working at Marine Corps Base Camp

lejeune in north Carolina won first place

in the first GameTech2010 "innovations in

DoD Gaming award." luke Devore, a lead

analyst; Pat Maloney, a scenario devel-

oper; and Brian libretto, a simulation

analyst work in the Deployable Virtual

Training Environment (DVTE) section of

the ii Marine Expeditionary Force Battle

simulation Center at Camp lejeune.

in a move to bolster its strategic pres-

ence in the defense, maritime and home-

land security sectors, Cubic Corporation

acquired the assets of impeva labs, inc.,

an international provider of global asset

management, tracking, monitoring and

security solutions. Cubic acquired impe-

va's contracts, inventory, fixed assets and

intellectual property and formed a new

subsidiary called Cubic Global Tracking

solutions, inc., that will build on impeva's

current military and civilian contracts to

globally grow the business.

Cubic's simulation systems Divi-

sion marked the first sale of its new

rapid application development in support

of advanced C4isR training, responsive

mission preparation, real-time and fast-

time simulation, and computer-assisted

exercises. luciad also introduced lucia-

dEarth Enterprise, its new data fusion

platform to manage, fuse, and serve

massive data streams into one combined

operational picture across multiple

applications.

• XPI Simulation demonstrated its

capability in real time ray-tracing graph-

ics, which provides simulation users the

ultimate image quality, and enhances

interoperability by using a single dataset

for displaying optical, thermal and nVG

images in different domains. also on

display was its simulator, which uses

one of the most advanced artificial

intelligence systems to reproduce local

driving culture.

• The Fighter Collection demonstrated

"The Battle simulator", which creates

a synthetic environment of elements of

modern air, land and sea warfare. This

solution is a development of The Fighter

Collection simulation Engine (TFCsE)

which is currently integrated into "seri-

ous game" air combat simulations and

military applications such as the a-10C

desk top simulator (DTs) for the Us air

national Guard and aC-130U iR sen-

sor operator training. The company also

demonstrated the desk top simulator of

the a-10C, the Ka-50 helicopter, the JTaC

workstation and the artillery commander

workstation, all linked over a lan dem-

onstrating typical joint fires exercises.

also at the exhibit, sDs international

showed its MQ-9 Reaper mission training

device (MTD) simulator currently in use

by the Us air national Guard.

• LINE launched its new i-Pad multi-

user interaction program and showed a

range of content examples for the i-Pad;

UMPC Tablet; i-Phone and i-Touch and

covered subjects like Bowman, Electronic

Performance support system (EPss) /

Technical Publications; Fire Control

Orders (FCO), Royal school of artillery

multi-user interaction programme; slDT

(P) vehicle maintenance (EPss) and cul-

tural awareness.

• Luciad presented a number of

software solutions for dependable

situational awareness with its latest

advances in high performance visualiza-

tion and graphical analysis solutions for

mission-critical defense and security

applications. On display was luciadMap,

the company's flagship software suite

designed to build highly accurate situ-

ational awareness applications and for

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Calendar

14-15 September 2010APATS 2010 - Asia PacificAirline Training SymposiumShangri-La HotelKuala Lumpur, Malaysiawww.halldale.com/APATS

9-10 November 2010EATS 2010 - European Airline Training SymposiumWOW HotelIstanbul, Turkeywww.halldale.com/EATS

19-21 April 2011WATS 2011 - World Aviation Training Conference & TradeshowRosen Shingle Creek ResortOrlando, Florida, USAwww.halldale.com/WATS

19–25 July 2010 Farnborough International Airshow Farnborough, Hampshire, UKwww.farnborough.com

22–23 September 2010 Annual International Flight Crew Training Conference London, UKwww.raes.org.uk

5-7 October 2010 Helitech 2010 Estoril, Portugalwww.helitechevents.com

12 October 2010Low-Cost and Systematic Approaches to TrainingLondon, [email protected]

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COMBATREDI system that immerses

users in a highly realistic 360-degree

"virtual reality" environment with a $4.8

million contract with the Florida Army

national Guard. Cubic will supply 27

of its COMBATREDI systems and four

180-degree Warrior Skills Trainers (WST),

a vehicle trainer that works with COM-

BATREDI.

L-3 Link – Four F/A-18C Tactical

Operational Flight Trainers (TOFTs) L-3

Link Simulation & Training provided for

Switzerland’s F/A-18 Flight Simulator

Upgrade program have achieved ready-

for-training status one month ahead

of schedule. The TOFTs, installed and

networked at Payerne Air Force Base in

Switzerland, were fielded with the Swiss

F/A-18C’s latest operational flight pro-

gram upgrade to stay concurrent with the

Hornet platform.

L-3 Link Simulation & Training and

the U.S. Air Force were given the Gov-

ernor’s Award by the national Training

and Simulation Association (nTSA) for

their joint efforts on the U.S. Air Force’s

Predator Mission Aircrew Training System

(PMATS) program. The Governor’s Award

recognizes an organization, program,

project or individual for outstanding

achievement in the field of modeling,

simulation and training. The high-fidelity

training provided by PMATS units allows

the U.S. Air Force Predator and Reaper

crews to conduct networked training

exercises and practice procedures to

counter potentially catastrophic emer-

gencies.

NgrAIN introduced two new prod-

ucts to help move training and sup-

port out of the classroom and into the

field. nGRAIn® Virtual Task RefresherTM

(VTRTM) and nGRAIn® Virtual IndexTM

(VITM) products are designed to save time

and increase knowledge on the job and

are targeted to organizations that need

to quickly access information in any

environment. The Virtual Task Refresher

delivers program and procedural updates

and support for modified equipment or

tasks that are infrequently performed.

nGRAIn also introduced a new version

of its 3D simulation production software,

nGRAIn® Producer 4.1, that is designed

for non-programmers with no 3D graphics

experience.

Personnel newsChange of Command for NAWCTSd

– Capt. Bill "Roto" Reuter replaced Capt.

Harry Robinson as commanding officer

of the naval Air Warfare Center Train-

ing Systems Division and naval Sup-

port Activity Orlando during a change

of command ceremony on June 18.

The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. in

Warfighter Park, adjacent to the de Florez

Building at nSA Orlando.

Retired navy Vice Admiral Al Harms,

Vice President for Strategic Planning and

Initiatives at the University of Central

Florida is scheduled to be the keynote

speaker at the ceremony. The navy and

UCF enjoy a long-standing partnership in

modeling and simulation research. Robin-

son will retire from the navy following 28

years of honorable service.

Antycip Simulation Appoints Chief Scientist – Antycip Simulation has

announced that Jean-Louis Igarza has

joined the company in the position of

Chief Scientist. With his experience,

Jean-Louis will provide Antycip with

invaluable technical advice and support

to strengthen its customer service in the

application of technologies used in vari-

ous programmes. ms&t

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NYSE: SAI

Energy | Environment | National Security | Health | Critical Infrastructure

Enhance Collaboration in a Virtual 3-D World

SAIC’s On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment (OLIVE™) is a dynamic software platform that enables users to collaborate over computer networks using a 3-D user interface.

OLIVE-based virtual worlds bring together physical presence, action, voice, data, and media in a context-specific, simulated environment.

Today, OLIVE supports virtual world implementations in healthcare, financial services, energy, transportation, retail, government, and higher education.

To learn more, visit us at saic.com/olive

http://www.saic.com/olive

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Whether customized or from our courseware library, our curriculum is designed to be easily adapted to the pace, learning speed and agenda of military medical professionals.

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Improving military clinical outcomes by identifying practice gaps in your medic training program, designing and developing educational interventions, establishing measurable objectives and deploying simulation-based solutions for medics in the field.

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