U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command
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Simulation and Training Technology Center
25 July 2013
COL Matthew T. Clarke
Commander, STTC of ARL HRED
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Army S&T Organizations
Materiel
AMC
Personnel
G-1
Medical
MEDCOM
Infrastructure/
Environmental
USACE
Strategic Missile Defense
SMDC ATEC
Test &
Evaluation
ECBCNSRDEC
CERDEC TARDECARDECAMRDEC
Delivers underpinning Science, Technology and Analysis to the Army
Army Research
Institute (ARI)
Medical Research &
Materiel Command
(MRMC)
Training S&T
Human Research & Engineering
Directorate
Simulation & Training Technology
CenterHRED
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Simulation and Training
Technology Center (STTC)
Mission
Conduct Simulation & Training Technology Research and Development to Enhance Warfighter
Effectiveness
Vision
The Warfighter’s Center of Innovation for Simulation & Training Technology Research and
Development
•Execute S&T of Simulation and Training Technology
•(6.1 / Basic Research – 6.3 / Advanced Technology Development)
• Provide Program Management for the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), an Army University Affiliated Research Center
• Synchronize / collaborate with academia, customers, industry and labs across the Army, other services and government, and international
• Coordinate and collaborate with key TRADOC Stakeholders
• Transition mature technology to PEO STRI, TRADOC, and Army units
• Support rapid fielding to the Warfighter as needed
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Geographic Range
STTC ORLANDO
Institute for Simulation and Training (IST) -UCF
Army Contracting Command
Army Research Institute
Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) -USC
STTC Building
• 100+ Government and Contractor Scientists and Engineers
Tenant Organizations
• Army Research Institute (ARI) Orlando
• Contracting Cell – Army Contracting Command (APG)
Local Area
• IST and other Team Orlando Facilities (e.g. Robotics Lab)
Extended Area
• ICT – Virtual Humans, Graphics, Immersive Technology Research
APGARL
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Facilities
~38,000 square feet of reconfigurable laboratories and research areas including:
• Adaptive Tutoring Lab
• Virtual and Augmented Reality Lab
• Gaming Lab
• Laser Research Lab
• Medical Research
• Holographic Research
UCF Foundation Owned, Government Occupied
Unique collaboration focused on research
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Simulation and Training S&T Gaps
BE LOW COST AND LOW OVERHEAD
ACCELERATE LEARNING
INCREASE REALISM AND IMMERSION
BE AVAILABLE AT THE POINT OF NEED
To Address the Challenge…
Future Training must:
Training Challenges and Gaps are defined by:
Top Army
Challenges
PEO
Gaps
TRADOC
WFOs
ADAPT TO SOLDIER’S NEEDS
BE EASY TO AUTHOR
1
2
3
4
5
6
MCOE
Gaps
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Intelligent and Adaptive Technologies for
TrainingImmersive Learning Synthetic Environments
Advanced Distributed Simulation
• Adaptive Tutors
• Virtual Humans
• Virtual Worlds
• Interface Technologies
• Dynamic/Interactive Effects
• Physics Based Terrain Models
• Simulation Tools / Architecture
• Soldier Centric Learning
• Joint and Coalition Training
• Virtual/Mixed/Augmented Reality • Hybrid laser, sensors
• Predictive technologies
• Human body simulations
Training Application Domains
Dismounted Soldier Live Training Medical Simulation
Technology Investments to Address the Gaps:
S&T Technology Enablers
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Simulation and Training Technology Vision
Live/Virtual
Integrating Environment
Today’s Investment
Adaptive TrainingTechnologies
Fully Immersive
At Point of Need
Ubiquitous, Low Overhead,
Individual, and Collective Training
LVC-IA24/7 Mobile
Adaptive
Tutors
Indoors / Outdoors
Haptics
Intelligent
Behaviors
Augmented Reality
Live Training
Capabilities
Live Virtual Constructive
Integrating Architecture
Learning
Methods
Authoring
CapabilityPhysicsBased
Effects
Virtual
Humans
Future CapabilitiesVirtual Worlds
Distributed
Natural
Language
Processing
Integrated
Training
Environment
ITE
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Simulation and Training Business Model
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STTC Contracting Vehicles
STTC Contracting
Vehicles
BAA
RAOS STES
• Broad Industry and Academia
• S&T Research
• 6.2 / 6.3 dollars
http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=8
• Academia
• S&T Research
• 6.2 / 6.3 dollars
• Small Businesses
• Engineering Services
• All Funding Types
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STES IDIQ Overview
STTC Simulation and Training Engineering Services (STES) Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract
• $135M, 5 year Multiple Award IDIQ– Total Small Business set-aside as classified by the North American Industry
Classification System (NAICS) • 3 Technical Areas:
• Advanced Simulation Research• Medical Simulation Research• Squad & Small Team Research (SSTR)
Synthetic Environments Dismounted Training Live Training
• Estimated release of draft RFP to FedByzOpps: 4th quarter Fiscal Year 2013• More information in FedBizOpps Search Key: W911QX-13-R-STES• Point of Contact:
• Briann Richardson, Sr. Contracts Specialist, 407-384-3610, [email protected]
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Discussion / Questions