Two Mission Technologies leaders were quoted in Defense One stories following the recent Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference in Orlando.
The first story, about the Joint Requirements Oversight Council releasing new data standards early this year, quoted John Bell, Mission Technologies’ chief technology officer, saying the new standards will make it easier to hold large, joint training exercises.
“How do we make sure all of our training systems can talk to each other in a meaningful way, so that we can train together in a meaningful way?” Bell said. “We have to set those standards at a joint level. … We want to be able to share data with them so that we can train as we can fight and we can fight the way we want to in an actual warfare scenario.”
The second story, about Naval Air Forces’ use of the Joint Simulation Environment, quoted Bell as saying that live, virtual, constructive training “helps solve problems of scalability, complexity and security.”
“When you’re flying off an aircraft carrier in routine day-to-day operations,” he added, “we don’t have a bunch of enemy aircraft flying around at will, and so being able to do it in a more complex training environment has been a problem that, in the last few years, has become much more critical than it used to be.”
The third story, about the Navy’s challenge of training F-35 pilots, quoted Brian Bazil, vice president of business development for Mission Technologies’ Global Security group, as saying: “The ranges just aren’t large enough. And that problem becomes compounded as the F-35 and other fifth-generation, more advanced platforms come on board because they’re faster, they have more capability, so it’s harder to train just in a live environment.”
These stories followed an earlier Defense One report about the need to “move beyond the physical domains” in training models and simulations.
“We have some holes in our swing from a domain perspective,” Adm. Christopher Grady, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at I/ITSEC. “And the areas that I’m focused on now are: Can we move beyond the physical domains to space, into cyber, into the [electromagnetic] spectrum, into, say, irregular warfare? We have to be able to simulate those.”
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