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:

1

Live exercises consume scarce aircraft/munitions hours and are limited by safety, weather, and range availability

2

Scenarios are manually authored, slow to update, and don’t reflect fast-changing threats and ISR-derived insights

3

Training outcomes are hard to quantify across units because data is siloed across simulator vendors and mission systems

4

Rehearsals miss sensor/communications constraints (EW, GPS-denial, degraded comms), causing poor transfer to real missions

Impact When Solved

Dramatically lowers training costsReal-time scenario updatesImproves mission readiness metrics

The Shift

Before AI~85% Manual

Human Does

  • Manual scenario scripting
  • Instructor-led after-action reviews
  • Limited telemetry analysis

Automation

  • Basic scenario generation
  • Static terrain updates
With AI~75% Automated

Human Does

  • Strategic oversight of training objectives
  • Final approval of scenarios
  • Interpreting AI-generated insights

AI Handles

  • Dynamic scenario adaptation
  • Real-time threat behavior learning
  • ML-driven simulation optimization
  • Automated after-action analysis

Solution Spectrum

Four implementation paths from quick automation wins to enterprise-grade platforms. Choose based on your timeline, budget, and team capacity.

1

Quick Win

Scenario Briefing Copilot for Mission Rehearsal

Typical Timeline:Days

A secure assistant that turns existing mission products (OPORD fragments, threat summaries, weather, and route notes) into rehearsal-ready briefs, checklists, and inject cards. It supports rapid what-if edits (alternate routes, ROE changes, comms loss) and produces standardized outputs for instructors and crews. This level focuses on reducing preparation time without changing the underlying simulator.

Architecture

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Key Challenges

  • Handling sensitive content safely (redaction and access control)
  • Preventing hallucinated threat facts and unverified claims
  • Standardizing output across diverse unit SOPs
  • Keeping context windows small while retaining critical details

Vendors at This Level

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Real-World Use Cases

CAE Digital Ecosystem for Defense Training and Mission Planning

Think of this as a ‘digital twin and mission coach’ for air forces: pilots and commanders train, rehearse and plan missions inside a connected virtual world that mirrors real aircraft, sensors, and battlefields—then use the same tech to support decisions in real operations.

End-to-End NNEmerging Standard
8.5

CAE Digital Ecosystem for Defence Training and Mission Planning

Think of this as a ‘digital twin and AI coach’ for air forces: it simulates aircraft, missions, and battle scenarios so pilots and commanders can train, plan, and rehearse complex operations safely on computers before doing them in the real world.

End-to-End NNEmerging Standard
8.5

SBIR Site Selection and Visitation System: AI Enabled Software That Identifies, Evaluates and Simulates Contingency Airfields to Support Operational Imperative 5

This is like a military version of Google Maps plus a flight simulator that helps commanders quickly find backup airfields, check if they’re usable under different threat and weather conditions, and rehearse operations before sending real aircraft and crews.

RAG-StandardExperimental
8.0

Collimator for Aerospace and Defense Engineering

This is like a specialized MATLAB/Simulink in the browser for aerospace and defense teams: it lets engineers design, simulate, and test complex control systems and mission scenarios digitally before building real hardware.

End-to-End NNEmerging Standard
7.0

Advances in Aerospace Engineering: Artificial Intelligence, Structures, Materials, and Optimization

This is a technical book that explains how modern AI and optimization methods can help design and operate aircraft and spacecraft more efficiently, using better structures and materials and smarter decision-making.

UnknownEmerging Standard
6.5