El entorno de entrenamiento sint\u00e9tico, o STE, est\u00e1 dise\u00f1ado para revolucionar el entrenamiento del Ej\u00e9rcito al expandir r\u00e1pidamente la simulaci\u00f3n virtual y capacidades hasta el nivel batall\u00f3n y compa\u00f1\u00eda. El entorno de capacitaci\u00f3n actual ha cumplido bien su prop\u00f3sito, pero ya no cumplir\u00e1 con las nevas necesidades actuales ni con requisitos de capacitaci\u00f3n futuros\u201d.<\/p>\n
Army leaders are asking program managers to shorten the development timeline of its new high-tech training system, the head of the program said Dec. 1.<\/p>\n
The synthetic training environment, or STE, is designed to revolutionize Army training by rapidly expanding virtual and simulation capabilities down to the battalion and company level, said Maj. Gen. Maria Gervais, director of the synthetic training environment cross-functional team.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur current training environment really has served us well, but it no longer will meet our current needs or our future training requirements,\u201d she said. \u201cQuite frankly, just because of when they were developed and how they were developed, \u2026 in a stovepipe proprietary manner, there are just too many limitations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The initial focus of the STE \u2014 which is closely aligned with the Army\u2019s soldier lethality modernization priority that is being spearheaded by Futures Command \u2014 was to examine foundational technologies, she said.<\/p>\n
Now the cross-functional team has been directed to accelerate to what Gervais called its next big challenge, the live training environment, she noted during a panel discussion at the Interservice\/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference. The event \u2014 the largest modeling and simulation symposium in the world \u2014 is being held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I\/ITSEC is hosted by the National Training and Simulation Association, an affiliate of the National Defense Industrial Association.<\/p>\n
\u201cSenior leaders have directed that the modernization of our live training effort be accelerated because our projected initial operating capability of FY ’26 and our full operational capability in FY ’30 \u2026 was too long,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The CFT is being asked to speed up its timeline on this second increment of the STE because the service needs training systems that can support multi-domain operations and combined joint all-domain command and control, Gervais said.<\/p>\n
Sustainment of the Army\u2019s legacy platforms are quickly out costing their return on training. The service\u2019s inability to replicate a large section of its combat capability negatively impacts readiness and new technology is readily available which can meet the collective training demands of multi-domain operations, she said.<\/p>\n
The Army wants to revolutionize its live training and enjoy leap ahead improvements, she said. \u201cWe really want to get after a different way of delivering our live training environment.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, the challenge will be to realistically simulate multi-domain operations training through brigade combat teams at home station, to maneuver combat training centers, to deployed locations, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur future live training needs to be a convergence of live and [a] synthetic family of systems that is affordable, uses emerging technology, is interactive with our legacy systems and is implemented before the divestment of our current systems,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
This future environment will enable trainees in both live and the synthetic training environments to interact with each other, she said.<\/p>\n
The Army\u2019s vision will require industry\u2019s help, she said.<\/p>\n
In Gervais\u2019 presentation slides, she noted that the live training environment will need near real-time, low latency, high bandwidth communication capability across a combat training center, even in degraded environments. There will also be a need for 3D terrain with accurate geo-spatial registration and near real-time updates to reflect changes to the environment.<\/p>\n