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Explore the future of combat training in the piece that outlines the latest Synthetic Training Environment (STE) program updates and recent developments.The Synthetic Training Environment is the U.S. Army’s initiative to converge virtual, constructive and gaming training environments into a single unified architecture. This ambitious project will enable simulation systems...

The recently appointed Director of the CFT (Cross Functional Team) for STE (the Synthetic Training Environment) has been confirmed as the keynote speaker for the Synthetic and Simulation Training Summit, running November 7-9th, 2019 in Orlando, Florida. Read the press piece here and register for the event today!

Explore this interactive Prezi to take a deep dive into the different segments of the STE. Click your way through and gain even more insight on what's to come in November at our Summit in Orlando, FL.

Synthetic Training and Cyber Defense for Future CombatReadiness and Cyber Initiatives through Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) TrainingThe Challenge Associated with Modeling and Simulating a Cyber AttackPresentation by Jennifer McArdle, Assistant Professor of Cyber Defense, Salve Regina University

An overview of the Synthetic Training Environment Cross Functional TeamWhere They AreWhere They Need To BeWhy STE is paramount to achieving the Army vision; enhances readiness by preparing the force for ANY FIGHT, ANYWHERE, and on ANY TERRAINPresentation by Major General Maria R. Gervais, Synthetic Training Environment (STE) Cross Functional...

PEO STRI OverviewCombining the Integrated Training Environment with the Synthetic Training EnvironmentImproving Synthetic Training Environment exercises on the Training Simulation SoftwarePresentation by Brigadier General Michael E. Sloane, Program Executive Officer, Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI)

Leveraging Commercial Capabilities for a Changing Technical LandscapeGovernance structure necessary to enable the sharing of common servicesNew Modeling and Simulation (M&S) capabilities to enhance DoD operational challengesPresentation by Ryan McAlinden, Director of Modeling, Simulation and Training | Institute for Creative Technologies, USC | U.S. Army University Affiliated Research Center (UARC)

This video offers an introduction to how Defense is utilizing the gaming industry and 3D designers' expertise (and budgets) to optimize operations within the military. The full article, originally written for DefenceIQ, reiterates the importance of focusing on precise and acute results as the bottom line over high-tech designs and...

YouTube recording  of Jennifer McArdle, Assistant Professor of Cyber Defense at Salve Regina University, presenting at the Royal Australian Air Force's Air Power Conference of 2018.

In this presentation, Colonel Kelly Hines, Commander of the 110th Aviation Brigade,  discusses the vision and goals for training the world’s best combat aviators.

Gene Colabatistto, the president of the defense and security group at CAE, offers his commentary on the newly revealed helicopter simulation platform unveiled by CAE at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow in the U.K. CAE plans to offer the platform to military customers for mission and flight training.

Dr. Thomas Killion, Chief Scientist, NATO, provides insight on incorporating Artificial Intelligence into defense strategies. Such work has already begun to transform NATO's ISR capabilities with regards to assimilation and data processing in efforts to effectively identify targets. What's next is yet to be seen.

Colonel Bradley M. Crites Commander Air Force Agency for Modeling and Simulation discusses what is next for the agency.

Today, the live training environment is not conducive to many of the training needs of fifth generation platforms: live training ranges are spatially too restricted, fail to produce realistic threat scenarios, and risk revealing the unique warfighting attributes of platforms. These barriers are pressing military operatives to rethink live training...

Jennifer McArdle's presentation from the 2018 Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) Air Power Conference. McArdle emphasizes the importance of LVC training and explains why training must be "increasingly pushed into the virtual and constructive environment."

The need for realistic, high-end graphics are less important than having effective training that yields significant operational outcomes. 

As the US finalizes details for STE (Simulation Training Environment), Australia's Navy is already underway with contracts to move ahead with the same initiatives.