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Army Holding Industry Day In March For Synthetic Training Environment

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, January 9th, 2019

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Army Holding Industry Day In March For Synthetic Training Environment

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 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. “Convergence will overcome the challenges of multiple terrain databases and costly…

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