Opportunities for the Employment of Simulation in U.S. Air Force Training Environments A Workshop Report (2015) / Chapter Skim
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Air Force's Air Mobility Command (AMC) , suggested, as one of several study topics, a look at migrating additional aircrew training to simulators in a resource-constrained environment.
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-- AMC, Air Combat Command (ACC) , and Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC)
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Flight training for Loadmasters, Boom Operators, and Aeromedical Evacuation Crewmembers also represent an opportunity as their flight training devices are not as mature as the pilot simulation devices. Indeed, heretofore Loadmasters and Boom Operators gained training as an outcome of required pilot/AC in aircraft flight training, but as we have decreased pilot flight time these crew positions require increased simulator capacity and fidelity to achieve requisite training.
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The result is training in a realistic domain where simulated versus live training is only a matter of physical location of the cockpit, and the stimuli of the physical environment. LVC Operational Needs/Requirements The CAF LVC environment will exist to provide "expert level" training to operational warfighters and provide an integrated readiness training environment in which warfighters solve dynamic mission execution problems.
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We frequently execute missions that span across multiple core mission areas, almost always in conjunction with our Army, Navy or Marine special operations partners. Those mission sets range from specialized air mobility to precision strike to ISR.
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Mr. Corley offered that both commands can benefit from the development of a realistic training domain where simulated versus live training is only a matter of physical location of the entity and the stimuli of the physical environment; an approach that potentially yields this realistic domain is through a properly constructed LVC capability.
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The ratio of simulation to live fly is different for each aircraft type, due in part to the different levels of fidelity of each simulator. The newest fighter flight simulation technologies are enabling the F-35 pilot training center to move more than 50 percent of flight training sorties out of aircraft live fly into the virtual reality flight simulator.
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methods to objectively measure aircrew competency (note: mission essential competencies and pilot evaluation techniques that were developed at the Warfighter Readiness Research Division of the 711 Human Performance Wing, Human Effectiveness Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory [711 HPW/RHA]
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as the programming advocate for operational training to help shepherd and support the MAJCOMs/CFLs issues through the Air Force Corporate Structure. Headquarters Air Force conducts support/advocacy/engagement in accordance with the SECAF/CSAF LVC Flight Plan signed in February 2013 and are working to codify this process in enduring and binding documents such as AFPD 16-10 Modeling and Simulation, AFI 11-202V1 Aircrew Training, 11-2MDS-V1 MDS Training, AFI 36-2251 Management of Air Force Training Systems, and AF Mission Directive 56 Air Force Agency for Modeling and Simulation, to name just a few.
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On a related topic, Ray Johns, committee co-chair, stated, "The Air Force needs an overall LVC strategy. The Air Force needs to state the LVC requirements, which will drive an acquisition strategy, which will drive a program." Committee member Richard Reynolds, former vice commander Air Force Materiel Command, noted that establishing a durable understanding of LVC's relative worth compared to 6 U.S.
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Establishing stated requirements for live, virtual, and constructive training as well as implementing a live, virtual, constructive training strategy and governance model could greatly benefit the Air Force across its full range of missions. This undertaking will likely mean establishing a durable understanding of live, virtual, and constructive training's relative worth compared to other components of readiness (Ray Johns, Donald Fraser)
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We are responsible for over 40 aircrew and maintenance training system programs, executing a more than $1 billion annual budget for systems and services at over 100 locations worldwide. In addition to aircraft simulators and training devices, the division manages the Air Combat and Air Mobility Distributed Mission Operations programs, providing the Air Force's only live, virtual, and constructive (LVC)
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Recent Highlights and Advances The division is growing our involvement in the Human Systems Community of Interest, promoting stronger collaborations with industry and our international collaborators. Further, the division is creating and transitioning proof of concept developments in learning management and performance measurement technologies, game-based applications for maintenance training, unmanned aircraft operations, low-cost 5th-generation tactical training, and agent development for autonomous operations, man-machine teaming, and increasing the realism and credibility of live, virtual, and constructive training environments.
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Robinson said, task-trainers and games present unique opportunities to maximize training resulting in proficiency improvements. Finally, he noted that cyber and security demands require attention in modeling and simulation for the training domain; these cannot be effectively backward-engineered into the solution.
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