DSB: Training is the glue that will hold Transformation Together

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DSB Training is the glue that will hold
Transformation Together
People are at least as important as hardware to
warfare proficiency
Defense Science Board Task Force Training For
Future ConflictsFinal Report 2003
People RD is woefully under-funded compared to
its probable leverage A DARPA Office in this
area should pay big dividends

• Dr. Ralph Chatham
• Dr. Joe Braddock
• Co-Chairmen

Office is room 573, but its a start
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Training with DARPA Inside

• Program based upon two observations
• We don't have enough training opportunities
• The CTC training revolution is episodic and
  doesnt reach everybody
• and we are doing refresher training in combat
• Unintended consequence of transformation
  everybody down to the most junior levels must
  think
• Classroom training wont hack it (Paul Gorman)-
  to train the strategic corporal in the future
  net-crazy world
• Goal a peaceful military continuously at war in
  a virtual world

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A Strawman DARWARS Architecture
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DARPAs Training Superiority Program DARWARS

• New project, two goals
• Invent new ways to deliver cognitive skills
  cheaply on demand
• 2s last-meter training goal based on
• What works best in human training tutors
  student state monitoring games reach-back to
  human experts/peers when artificial intelligence
  fails after action reviews
• Ubiquitous availability of PC/Mac/ Palm
  computing, good-enough graphics and networking
• Distributed Air Mission Training in a Seabag
• Rapid tactical language for everyone
• Info Technician troubleshooting
• Create architecture so anyone, any unit ( Guard
  and reserve), can train anytime, anywhere - and
  wants to
• Following eg. of massive multiplayer games
• Scoring based on training value, not monsters
  killed
• Strong buy-in by users
• Connect people/units who dont talk to each other
• Auto scenario and AAR generation
• Reduce acquisition training development
  time/costs

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DARWARS Architecture Pre-prototype DEMO

• Tied 5 formerly-independent PC trainers/games
  together via HLA
• Equivalent in commercial world of fletching
  arrow in Asherons Call, shooting it from
  Everquest, through Dark Age of Camelot and having
  it land with effect in World War II On Line
• Trusted-client architecture edge computing
  minimizes bandwidth

ADL CoLab Smart Room
ADL CoLab Conference Room
ADL CoLab Conference Room
Fleet Command
FATS IFT
BC-2010
BC-2010
Fleet Command
FATS Instructor
Local Area Network
MAGTF-XXI
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Web Server, Lobby Server, LMS
Alexandria, VA
MAK Technologies, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
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Rapid Acquisition of Tactical Language

• Initial trainer Caveman Arabic
• Lebanese Arabic (USMA has data and experience
  with this dialect)
• Two parts
• Mission Skill Builder
• A virtual classroom

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Rapid Acquisition of Tactical Language
Engagement and excitement learning Arabic! (but a
bad gesture for that culture)
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