SBIR-STTR Award

The goal of the proposed work is to create Mission Planning and Training Tool, (MPTT), a tool that will allow experienced training officersto create urban combat training scenarios in less than one hour. The importance of urban combat to the US Army is growing. Urban combat requires individual combatants to work closely with members of their tactical team while in close proximity to innocent civilians, armed civilians, hostages, and enemy forces. While simulation-based training for urban combat has advanced rapidly in the past few years, there are still gaps in the technology. One deficiency is the limited capability of existing Computer Generated Forces (CGF). We propose to create MissionPlanning and Training Tool MPTT), software for simulating urban combat scenarios using a new kind of CGF. Rather than rely on complex computer intelligence, MPTT produces CGF that use the intelligence of experienced training officers who act as scenario builders. These CGF can be directly pathed, and scripted to create scenarios involving human tohuman interaction at close quarters, including in and around buildings. MPTT will support scenario generation, interactive mission planning, rehearsal, and training. MPTT will be a powerful and practical tool for building urban combat training simulations.

Benefits:
MPTT is dual use technology, which will be commercialized by applying it to police training, fire fighting, disaster planning systems, etc.

The goal of the proposed work is to create Mission Planning and Training Tool (MPTT), software that allows experienced users to create urban combat scenarios in less than one hour. Urban combat is growing in importance to the US Army. It requires individual combatants to work closely with members of their tactical team, while in close proximity to innocent civilians, armed civilians, and hostages and enemy forces. It can include combat, operations other than war (OOTW), and peacekeeping. MPTT is targeted to satisfy the Army's existing requirement for mission planning and rehearsal in MOUT at battalion level and below. In Phase I, we demonstrated a scenario generation tool that allowed computer-generated forces to maneuver in and around buildings and to react to the actions of other forces in the scenario. In Phase II we will enhance MPTT to support mission planning, rehearsal, and training. The objective is to create a tool that is easy to use, runs on affordable PC computers, supports rapid 3D scenario generation1 and runs in real-time.

Benefits:
MPTT will provide a needed tool for mission planning, rehearsal and training for urban combat. MPTT is a dual use technology, which can be adapt for law enforcement, disaster preparedness, urban planning, and the like.

Keywords:
Individual Combatant Computer Generated Forces Dismounted Infantry Operations Other Than War (Ootw)