SBIR-STTR Award

Distributed Mission Training (DMT) provides mission training and rehearsal in a simulated full-mission environment. Since technology cannot support a completely realistic environment, analyses are critical to determine what technology permits to be trained, and to what level it can be trained. Technology vs. training performance trade-offs need to be consciously examined and prioritized. Virtual Simulation and Training, Inc.(VSAT), supported by the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI), will perform the research and analysis needed to tailor the Air Force standard Training System Requirements Analysis (TSRA) process for the DMT environment. These analytic changes will then be supported by an interactive Mission Training Analysis Database (MTAD) ultimately connecting task requirements to training equipment performance characteristics on one end of a continuum, and to issues understood by high level decision-makers on the other. The new process, called Distributed Mission Training Streamlined Requirements Analysis (DMTSRA), will differ substantially from the standard TSRA process. Phase I will include research to develop the DMTSRA process using the combat portion of an air-to-air fighter mission. Results will be incorporated into a prototype MTAD. The architecture and key features of the MTAD will also be demonstrated in Phase I.

Keywords:
Distributed Mission Training (DMT), Training and Simulation, Training System Requirements Analysis (TSRA), Measures of Effectiveness (MOE) and Measures of Performance (MOP), Weapon System Trainers (WST), Mission Rehearsal, Instructional System Development (ISD), Mission Essential Competencies (MEC)

Distributed Mission Training (DMT) provides training in a simulated full-mission environment. Due to technology limitations, analyses are critical to determine what can be trained and to what level it can be trained. To meet this critical need, VSAT proposes a new process, Distributed Mission Training Requirements Analysis (DMTRA), supported by an interactive Mission Training Analysis Database (MTAD). The process will connect mission requirements through a trail of mission essential competencies in support of the Air Combat Command Ready Aircrew Program, to the performance of specific simulated subsystems. Results will be in forms understood at all decision-making levels. The process will include DMT entity interactions and the complex interactive environment. In Phase I, VSAT developed samples of the process and database that demonstrated their feasibility. In Phase II, VSAT proposes to perform research and analysis to develop and integrate all aspects of the process, creating a fully functional MTAD prototype. VSAT proposes to demonstrate the process and MTAD by performing a comprehensive analysis of AFRL/HEA training missions and a distributed exercise with a remote facility.

Keywords:
DMT, TRAINING REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS, FLIGHT SIMULATORS, MISSION ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES, DISTRIBUTED MISSION TRAINING, TSRA, SIMULATOR TECHNOLOGI