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Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, or NAWCTSD
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Terri Bernhardt 407-758-5576
September 28, 2009. Orlando, Fla. Team Orlando proudly shines a spot light on another successful project: "Operations Center Live to Virtual Communications Bridge" In early 2008, Lance Legan, a technical lead in the Concept Development and Integration Laboratory, at the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD), put a research team to work on developing a bridge that would translate the various communications systems to ensure all the players had clear communications during the joint training and operations.
This innovation, commissioned by the Joint Training, Integration and Education Center (JTIEC), provides the capability for bridging operations center systems with modeling and simulation networks. By leveraging existing technology that was developed by the Navy team, the Live to Virtual interface was developed and tested. The bridge implements and validates interoperability standards between the Army's Tactical Operations Center and the Marine Corps' Command Operations Centers, which use dissimilar software and communications systems within their operations centers. The project outcome includes not only a successful, tested software application for bridging live to virtual communications, but also includes test reports and interoperability standards in the Operations Center Communications Interoperability Using Modeling and Simulation Protocols document.
The success of the program is directly correlated to Team Orlando and its partners. Kent Gritton, Director of JTIEC, identified this project as "an essential enabler for the military services to share communications between the live and virtual environments among the various services, and a key element to success in training our warfighters in a joint environment." He stated that "this project is an example of the benefits of the collaboration that exists between the military services in Orlando. As a result of this project, both the Army and the Marine Corps will reap significant benefits from technology developed in a Navy laboratory – all within the Central Florida Research Park." The immediate beneficiaries of this project are the Army's Combat Training Center Objective Instrumentation System in PEO STRI's Project Manager for Training Devices and the Marine Corps' Combined Arms Command and Control Training Upgrade System (CACCTUS) managed by the Program Manager for Training Systems (PM TRASYS).
Team Orlando is a unique collaborate alliance formed by the leading military modeling, simulation, and training commands in Central Florida. The military alliance is supplemented and supported by academic, government and industry leaders with one common goal: to improve human performance through simulation. www.teamorlando.org.
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