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Army Details Synthetic Training Environment Requirements, Looking To Reach IOC In 2021

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, January 31st, 2019

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Army Details Synthetic Training Environment Requirements, Looking To Reach IOC In 2021

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

The Army is looking to reach initial operational capability for its Synthetic Training Environment program by September 2021, and has asked industry to focus on virtualized direct fire and short-range indirect capabilities for the effort’s imminent contracts. Officials from the Army’s STE Cross Functional Team held an industry day Wednesday and announced the program will focus on four efforts: a Common Synthetic Environment (CSE), an air and ground Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Trainer (RVCT) and Live Force-on-Force training, with the first…

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