Synthetic Training Environment Refinement & Prototyping

Abstract

The Synthetic Training Environment (STE) is the next generation holistic collective training capability that will enable leaders, Soldiers, and units to train where they will fight, with the partners they will fight with, and in complex operational environments to include dense urban, woodland, jungle, dessert, and sub-terrain, before the first fight begins. STE will revolutionize Army training by providing the repetition necessary at the Point of Need for improved proficiency prior to live training or operations- improving Soldier lethality and survivability. The STE program is pre-acquisition and has 5 OTAs awarded in support of prototyping capabilities to an Initial Operating Capability (IOC) of FY 2023, and will implement an incremental fielding approach leveraging the Software Acquisition pathway. The STE will be available where training occurs (home station, combat training centers, armories, institutions, ship-board, deployed). The STE is comprised of four main signature efforts: 1) STE-Information System (STE-IS); 2) Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Trainers (RVCT), both air and ground; 3) Soldier Virtual Trainer (SVT); and 4) STE LIVE. STE-IS is comprised of Synthetic Training Environment training capability consisting of One World Terrain (OWT), Training Simulation Software (TSS), and Training Management Tools (TMT). The RVCT Air and Ground (RVCT A/G) will allow units to collectively train, using proponent developed Combined Arms Training Strategies (CATS), on a simulated, fully interactive, real-time battlefield. S/SVT is broken into Squad Immersive Virtual Trainer (SiVT) and Soldier Virtual Trainer (SVT). Squad immersive Virtual Trainer (SiVT) is the immersive training capability delivered as part of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) for the close combat Squads that enables IVAS to be a fight, rehearse, and training platform. SVT, will provide training to Soldiers Army wide by providing a Weapons Skills Development (WSD), Joint Fires Trainer (JFT) and Use of Force (UoF). STE LIVE focuses on the development of twelve engagement types and five instrumentation enablers. The twelve engagement types are direct fire, counter-defilade fire, indirect fire, dropped objects, placed objects, thrown objects, guided weapons, autonomous weapons, cyber, directed energy, radiant energy, and plume; the five instrumentation enablers are calculations, networks, sensors, terrains, and transmitters. A future STE line of effort includes Next Generation Constructive. FY 2022 Projects CR2 through CR7 Base RDTE dollars in the amount of $194.195 million funds significant development efforts in the STE-Information System (STE-IS), One World Terrain (OWT), Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Trainer (RVCT), Squad Immersive Virtual Trainer (SiVT), Soldier Virtual Trainer (SVT), and STE-LIVE. NOTE - Projects CR2, CR3, CR4, CR6 and CR7 are not new starts; efforts were previously captured under projects FD6 and SV1.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0604121A_4_2040_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2022: Increase to PB of $183.537 million will fund significant development efforts for the STE-Information System (STE-IS), Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Trainer (RVCT), Squad immersive Virtual Trainer (SiVT), Soldier Virtual Trainer (SVT), and STE-LIVE. This increase, in accordance with the Program Objective Memorandum Guidance for Fiscal Years 2023-2027, will be used to accelerate Synthetic Training Environment to increase small unit lethality. The increase in FY2022 supports the incorporating the revised A-CDD requirements for STE-IS and OWT to develop echelon software, support Aviation integration, initiate tactical terrain prototype development, in addition to, implementing DEVSECOPS and system integrating functions. Additionally, increase will finalize the technical development and demonstration of prototypes designs to facilitate production decisions for RVCT and follow-on production effort for SiVT. Lastly, FY2022 increase will support the acceleration of the STE-LIVE prototyping efforts and commence the prototyping efforts for SVT.
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber
• Human Systems
• Materials and Manufacturing Processes
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Commerce
• Directed Energy Weapons
• Employment
• Guided Weapons
• Indirect Fire
• Information Systems
• Internet Of Things
• Mixed Reality
• Open System Architecture
• Procurement
• Product Development
• Test And Evaluation
• Three Dimensional
• Training Management
• User Interface
• Warfare
• Weapons Effects

Readers

• Marine Propulsion Engineering and Naval Architecture
• Military Training and Readiness Simulation

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Cyber
• Directed Energy