2017 I/ITSEC - 8250

Team Training Environment Specification and Selection (Room S330G)

Delivering effective military capability to counter increasingly diverse threats has never been more challenging, with fiscal constraints driving the need for ever greater efficiency in training provision. The aim of this tutorial is to show how the training environment model can be used to provide a structured framework for developing training environment specifications which facilitate the development and evaluation of effective training environments. The training environment model guides the identification of the key attributes of the physical and information environments within which our war-fighters operate, the means with which they interact with these environments, and the other significant actors in the environment. It also facilitates the identification of the key training environment features required to support training delivery (such as setting up and controlling the environment, monitoring performance and after action review). By identifying the key attributes of each of these elements that have to be specified, it becomes possible to explore how Live, Synthetic and Constructive substitutions can best be made to deliver training environments which challenge war-fighters in credible, demanding and engaging scenarios, whilst providing assurance of the capability that is being developed.