LinCom Corporation is proposing an innovative approach to improving training for ground support and mission operation personnel by embedding the capabilities of NASA's award winning Intelligent Computer Aided Training (ICAT) software into mainstream commercial Computer Based Training (CBT) tools. NASA has invested over ten years of research and development into ICAT technology. ICAT reflects state-of-the-art technology for developing high-fidelity interactive training systems. However, this technology has primarily been confined to federal laboratories, universities, and a few corporations. Traditional Computer Based Training (CBT) software is now beginning to require extensive high-end features beyond the standard integration of sound, video, and animation. Current corporate expectations include advanced student interactions, sophisticated user tracking, and extensive navigation features similar to those already available in ICAT. The innovation of integrating ICAT, whose focus is on "learning by doing", with CBT would be a natural fit and would satisfy this demand. Since the use of commercial-off-the-shelf CBT authoring tools for training in mission operations at NASA is an established and growing practice, intelligent tutoring that would encompass student performance throughout a CBT training module would dramatically increase the power of the training
