U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command
Simulation and Training
Technology Center
COL Matthew T. Clarke
Commander, STTC of ARL HRED
25 July 2013
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Army S&T Organizations
Personnel
Infrastructure/
Environmental
Medical
G-1
MEDCOM
Army
Research
Institute
(ARI)
Medical
Research &
Materiel
Command
(MRMC)
Strategic Missile
Defense
Materiel
AMC
USACE
SMDC
Test &
Evaluation
ATEC
Training S&T
AMRDEC
ARDEC
CERDEC
ECBC
NSRDEC
TARDEC
Delivers underpinning Science, Technology and Analysis to the Army
HRED
STTC
Human Research &
Engineering Directorate
Simulation & Training
Technology Center
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Simulation and Training
Technology Center (STTC)
Mission
Conduct Simulation & Training Technology Research
and Development to Enhance Warfighter Effectiveness
Vision
The Warfighter’s Center of Innovation for Simulation &
Training Technology Research and Development
• Execute S&T of Simulation and Training Technology
• (6.1 / Basic Research – 6.3 / Advanced Technology Development)
• Provide Program Management for the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT),
an Army University Affiliated Research Center
• Synchronize / collaborate with academia, customers, industry and labs across
the Army, other services and government, and international
• Coordinate and collaborate with key TRADOC Stakeholders
• Transition mature technology to PEO STRI, TRADOC, and Army units
• Support rapid fielding to the Warfighter as needed
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Geographic Range
APG
ARL
STTC ORLANDO
Institute for Creative
Technologies (ICT) -USC
Army Contracting Command
Institute for Simulation
and Training (IST) -UCF
Army Research Institute
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Facilities
UCF Foundation Owned, Government Occupied
Unique collaboration focused on research
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Simulation and Training S&T Gaps
To Address the Challenge…
Future Training must:
Training Challenges and
Gaps are defined by:
Top Army
Challenges
TRADOC
WFOs
MCOE
Gaps
PEO
Gaps
1
ACCELERATE LEARNING
2
ADAPT TO SOLDIER’S NEEDS
3
INCREASE REALISM AND IMMERSION
4
BE EASY TO AUTHOR
5
BE AVAILABLE AT THE POINT OF NEED
6
BE LOW COST AND LOW OVERHEAD
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S&T Technology Enablers
Technology Investments to Address the Gaps:
Intelligent and Adaptive
Technologies for Training
• Adaptive Tutors
• Virtual Humans
Immersive Learning
• Virtual Worlds
• Interface Technologies
Training Application Domains
Dismounted Soldier
• Virtual/Mixed/Augmented
Reality
Live Training
Medical Simulation
• Hybrid laser, sensors
• Predictive technologies
• Human body simulations
Synthetic Environments
• Dynamic/Interactive Effects
• Physics Based Terrain Models
Advanced Distributed
Simulation
• Simulation Tools / Architecture
• Soldier Centric Learning
• Joint and Coalition Training
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Simulation and Training Technology
Vision
Today’s Investment
Future Capabilities
Adaptive Tutors
Authoring
Capability
ITE
Virtual Humans
Integrated
Training
Environment
Immersive Systems
Live/Virtual
Integrating Environment
Augmented
Reality
Intelligent
Behaviors
Learning
Methods
Natural
Language
Processing
Virtual
Humans
Physics
Based
Effects
Live Training
Capabilities
Adaptive
Tutors
Synthetic Natural
Environments
Distributed
Simulation
Virtual
Worlds
Haptics
Distributed
Mobile
24/7
LVC-IA
Live Virtual Constructive
Integrating Architecture
Indoors /
Outdoors
Training
Applications
Ubiquitous, Low Overhead,
Individual, and Collective Training
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Simulation and Training
Business Model
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STTC Contracting Vehicles
• Broad Industry and Academia
• S&T Research
• 6.2 / 6.3 dollars
http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=8
BAA
STTC
Contracting
Vehicles
RAOS
• Academia
• S&T Research
• 6.2 / 6.3 dollars
• Small Businesses
• Engineering Services
• All Funding Types
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STES IDIQ Overview
STTC Simulation and Training Engineering Services (STES)
Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract
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$135M, 5 year Multiple Award IDIQ
– Total Small Business set-aside as classified by the North American Industry
Classification System (NAICS)
3 Technical Areas:
• Advanced Simulation Research
• Medical Simulation Research
• Squad & Small Team Research (SSTR)
 Synthetic Environments
 Dismounted Training
 Live Training
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Estimated release of draft RFP to FedByzOpps: 4th quarter Fiscal Year 2013
More information in FedBizOpps Search Key: W911QX-13-R-STES
Point of Contact:
• Briann Richardson, Sr. Contracts Specialist, 407-384-3610,
briann.richardson@us.army.mil
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Discussion / Questions
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