The military trains thousands of soldiers every year on heavy machinery. Most soldiers train at a training school, where they become very familiar with the heavy equipment. Once training is complete, the soldiers return to bases that typically do not have heavy equipment in their inventory, preventing adequate training time to stay mission ready. Without proper sustainment training, soldiers are not able to stay current on certifications and are unable to perform their duties when called on. GlobalSim is proposing to do a phase 1 research grant to find military training schools to adapt our commercially available training curriculum for the Air Force Engineers training. The Heavy Equipment Trainer (HET) can allow for Point of Need (PoN) training and will allow military bases to have access to countless training exercises, and multiple Heavy equipment machines on a single Base Seat (BS). The HET utilizes a VR headset that allows full 360-degree simulated environment with a small training footprint. The HET is a low-cost, small-footprint easy to use a reconfigurable trainer that can offer high fidelity training. The HET has been a very successful commercial product that can be modified to train military personnel cheaper faster and provide more seat time.
