Air Force Training: Actions Needed to Better Manage and Determine Costs of Virtual Training Efforts

Abstract

For each of their aircraft, the Air Force lead commands set training requirements that aircrews must complete on an annual basis in order to maintain combat mission readiness. These training requirements include basic tasks such as take-offs and landings and also more-advanced tasks, such as air-to-air combat and ground-attack missions. To help meet these requirements, the Air Force has developed an approach to training that it terms distributed mission operations. This approach is intended to train units as they expect to fight, maintain readiness, and conduct mission rehearsals in a realistic environment. Distributed mission operations utilizes the integration of virtual (e.g., a person training in a simulator) and constructive (e.g., computer generated) elements to train personnel at geographically separated sites by means of a network. For the purposes of this report, we refer to training that includes a simulator as virtual training.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA563273

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Training
  • Congress
  • Cross Domain
  • Department Of Defense
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Flight Simulators
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Tanker Aircraft
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Training Devices
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation