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Marine Corps News

01/06/2023

Marines Marching Ahead On Virtual Training Program
After more than a decade of concept development, the Marine Corps launched Project Tripoli — a live, virtual and constructive training environment — in April 2022.
Training and Simulation

12/27/2022

Czech Company Unveils Mixed Reality Apache Trainer
A new training simulator could take advantage of the niche market for the Army’s legacy attack helicopters as the training industry focuses on newer platforms.
Training and Simulation

12/02/2022

I/ITSEC NEWS: Services in ‘Wild West’ of Developing Common Virtual Training Environments
ORLANDO, Florida — The military services are racing to develop interoperable simulated training environments, and they are taking different approaches to solve the problem. That translates to opportunity and risk, said one vendor.
Training and Simulation

12/01/2022

I/ITSEC NEWS: Services Look to Interoperable Modeling and Simulation
ORLANDO, Florida — With the demand signal for joint live, virtual and constructive training only increasing, the military services are racing to build modeling and simulation capabilities. Ensuring that simulated training is interoperable across the services and partners is no easy feat, according to military leaders.
Training and Simulation

12/01/2022

I/ITSEC NEWS: Army Aiming To Synchronize STE Capabilities
The Army is looking to industry for ideas to further synchronize and integrate a variety of programs into its Synthetic Training Environment, a service official said.
Special Operations

12/01/2022

I/ITSEC NEWS: Special Operators Want Multi-Player, Combined Simulations
ORLANDO, Florida — Training simulators have come a long way and facilitate an increasing range of scenarios, but special operators say they still need more reality and variety in simulators and better collaborative, networked training tools.
Training and Simulation

11/30/2022

I/ITSEC NEWS: Gaming Provides Opportunities, Skills For Military Metaverse
Military training in the metaverse will require a unique set of cognitive skills that gaming can develop in future warfighters, officials said.
Training and Simulation

11/30/2022

I/ITSEC NEWS: Ukraine War Informing Army’s Synthetic Training Environment
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — and the Ukrainians’ resistance to this invasion — has provided the United States Army with several observations it could incorporate into its own training systems, service officials said.
Training and Simulation

11/28/2022

Ukraine Serves as Lesson in the Value of Training
Without any prospects of peace in the near term, one thing has become clear — the Ukraine army is holding its own against a much bigger adversary.
Training and Simulation

11/23/2022

How Interconnected, Simulated Worlds Could Transform Military Training
While tech giants and small startups alike have hopped on the bandwagon, the U.S. military has also been interested in and developing its own “military metaverse” that can be harnessed to train thousands of warfighters simultaneously in realistic battlefield simulations.