The Army announced Wednesday it will hold an industry day in March for its program to build a new capability that brings together live, virtual and constructive simulators to improve training for multi-domain operations.

The Synthetic Training Environment (STE) industry day is tentatively scheduled for March 12-14 in Orlando and will be jointly hosted with the National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL) and the Training and Readiness Accelerator (TReX) consortium.

A Stryker vehicle commander interacts in real time with a Soldier avatar that is operated remotely from a collective trainer. (U.S. Army photo)

“Convergence will overcome the challenges of multiple terrain databases and costly hardware at training areas with an affordable solution,” Army officials wrote in a statement.

Army officials identified training aides, devices and simulators as immediate needs for the Live Training Environment components of STE.

“The Army lacks the ability to simulate multi-domain operations training from soldier through Brigade Combat Team at home station, Maneuver Combat Training Centers, and deployed locations in Live Training Environments  realistically. Live training needs to be integrated effectively into the STE,” officials wrote.

The STE cross functional team is asking industry to initially focus on non-laser based direct fire solutions, short range indirect fires, weapons and battlefield effects, casualty assessments.

Other capability requirements include realistic damage and casualty assessment results, and accurate representation of munitions trajectory and time of flight with near real time data exchange, notification of hit/kill and casualty assessment information and post-event training evaluation tools.