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U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command
NEXT GENERATION TRAINING…TODAY!
COL Craig Langhauser
Director, U.S. Army Simulation and Training Technology Center
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STTC IS…
TRANSITIONING TECHNOLOGY
• Mixed Reality
• Mounted
• Platform Centric/Mobile
• Holographic Images
• Dismounted
• Gaming Technology
• Intelligent Tutors
• Medical
• Virtual Worlds
Asymmetric Warfare Requires Asymmetric Acquisition
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MCIT
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MCIT…What is it?
• MCIT is a cognitive
training experience…we
are not teaching motor
skills
• Derived from CENTCOM,
C-IED Training &
Capabilities Guidance
• Emphasizes Red TTPs to
promote awareness,
understanding, and
vigilances
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Learning Objectives
Individual C-IED Tasks
Collective C-IED Tasks
 Identify visual indicators of
an IED
 Know the five “C”s – IED
Reactionary Drills (Confirm,
Clear, Cordon, Control,
Check)
 React to a suspected IED
or VBIED attack
 React to an IED or VBIED
attack
 Know and practice the nine
principles of IED combat
 CREW devices
 Perform a nine line UXO [&
CASEVAC] report
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CB1 – Individual
Tasks and Identification
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CB2 –
The Insurgent’s Lair
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CB4 –
“Red vs. Blue” Exercise
Participants
Experience
• 6 blue players (2 HMMWVs: Driver, TC,
Gunner)
Unit contact time in trailer:
approximately 45 min
• 3 red players (Triggerman, Lookout, &
Cameraman)
• 1 white cell operator
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(~15 min/session x 3 sessions)
What Constitutes
Success?
Post Exercise Review
• Red
• Blue
 UXO missed/detected and reported
 Ambush site selection
 9-line correctness and timeliness
(IED/UXO; CASEVAC)
 IED types selection
 Civilian casualties
 Video footage of attacks
 Enemy casualties
 Patterns
 Standoff distance maintained
 Staying observant
 CREW device activation
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 Enemy casualties
Accomplishments
• Delivered prototypes to three training sites:
 Ft. Bragg, NC
 Camp Pendleton, CA
 Camp Shelby, MS
• Trains on average of 50 to 80 Service Members per site, per day
• More than 6000 Warfighters trained to date
• JCOE has been funded to provide an additional seven trainers
• “Having run multiple missions downrange as a medic with my
line platoon, I recognize the amazing system you have put
together for training. The program is realistic, informative, and
very helpful for the new soldiers. I honestly wish I had been
afforded the training involved before being sent downrange.”
SPC Wilson, 1/505th PIR, 3rd BDE
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Tactical Digital
Holograms
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Tactical Digital
Holograms
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Multiple Amputee
Trauma Trainer
• Ruggedized, tetherless trauma
training mannequins
• Made of a specially formulated
reusable synthetic tissue for
realism and durability
• Simulates severe battlefield
injuries to improve medical task
training and provide critical
emotional and stress
conditioning
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TC3 and CBCTS
The Tactical Combat Casualty
Care (TC3)
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Computer Based
Corpsman Training System
(CBCTS)
Computer Based Corpsman
Training System
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STTC
Awards & Honors
Trauma FX Multiple Amputation Trauma Trainer
2009 U.S. Army Modeling and Simulation Award for Training
Computer Based Corpsman Training System
2009 I/ITSEC Serious Games (government category) and People’s Choice Award
MATREX
2009 U.S. Army Modeling and Simulation Award for Cross-Cutting Research
2008 Department of Defense Modeling and Simulation Award for Test and Evaluation
2008 U.S. Army Modeling and Simulation Award for Test and Evaluation
LEARNING WITH ADAPTIVE SIMULATION AND TRAINING (LAST) ATO
2008 Winner of the Department of Army Research and Development Collaboration Award. Included
U.S. Army organizations: STTC, Army Research Institute, and Army Research Laboratory HRED as well
as the Institute for Creative Technology
BILATERAL NEGOTIATION (BiLAT) SIMULATION
2008 The BiLAT Learning Environment won the U.S. Army Modeling and Simulation Award for Training
DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT COGNITIVE TRAINING INITIATIVE (DMCTI)
2008 The DMCTI won the U.S. Army Modeling and Simulation Award for Training
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QUESTIONS?
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