Defense Training and Mission Rehearsal
This application area focuses on creating integrated digital environments where military personnel can train, rehearse missions, and plan operations using high-fidelity simulations tied to real-world data. Instead of relying primarily on live flying and physical exercises—which are expensive, logistically complex, and constrained by safety and asset availability—forces use virtual and mixed-reality environments that mirror current platforms, sensors, terrains, and threat scenarios. These ecosystems connect simulators, training curricula, operational data, and mission planning tools into a single, continuously updated training and rehearsal space. Intelligent models power scenario generation, adaptive training, and data-driven performance assessment. Operational and sensor data feeds allow mission plans and tactics to be tested and refined in realistic digital twins of the battlespace before execution. This leads to faster updates to tactics, techniques, and procedures, more standardized and scalable training across units and locations, and reduced dependence on costly live exercises, while improving readiness and mission success probabilities.
The Problem
“Operationally realistic mission rehearsal without live-flight cost or risk”
Organizations face these key challenges:
Live exercises consume scarce aircraft/munitions hours and are limited by safety, weather, and range availability
Scenarios are manually authored, slow to update, and don’t reflect fast-changing threats and ISR-derived insights
Training outcomes are hard to quantify across units because data is siloed across simulator vendors and mission systems
Rehearsals miss sensor/communications constraints (EW, GPS-denial, degraded comms), causing poor transfer to real missions
Impact When Solved
Technologies
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Key Players
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