DARTHWARS
Any where, any size, any time.
DARPA has initiated a Training Superiority Program, nicknamed DARWARS, that seeks to transform military training by providing continuously-available, on-demand mission-level training for all forces at all echelons. This goal will be attained by providing a new kind of cognitive training experience for units and individuals based on continuously available wars. DARWARS aims to create new kinds of training systems and then to link them and other training systems together to provide a set of universal, on-demand, persistent training wars for anyone, any echelon, at any time.
Article on DARWARS: A Possible Future for Military Training, by Ralph Ernest Chatham, July 23, 2003.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD). It manages and directs selected basic and applied research and development projects for DoD, and pursues research and technology where risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional military roles and missions and dual-use applications.
* DARPA Fact File, April 2002 describes many DARPA programs.
* The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Technology Office (ITO) is responsible for research into breakthrough information technologies for use in advanced defense applications. The office's mission is to provide the networking and computing hardware, software, systems and management technologies vital to ensuring DoD military superiority.
They have a number of research efforts that are grouped under
o Networking & Distributed Systems
o Embedded & Autonomous Systems
o Intelligent Software
* One DARPA project is Control of Agent Based Systems (CoABS). CoABS is building software agents or software robots that drastically reduce the time that warfighters spend manipulating information systems rather than focusing on their mission. The CoABS Grid Military User’s Group (GMUG) shares inter-service initiatives, lessons learned and user experience with the Grid.
* What If Simulation System for Advanced Research and Development (WISSARD) is located at Naval Air Station Oceana, VA and was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). WISSARD participates in distributed simulation and activities providing air threat models and other capabilities.
* Another DARPA Information Technology Office R&D initiative of interest to the military training community was the Computer Assisted Education & Training Initiative (CAETI). The three CAETI themes, EAGIL, CAPER, and SNAIR are:
(1) Expert Associates to Guide Individualized Learning (EAGIL) for students and instructors.
o EAGIL products are intelligent guides, tutors or associates that adapt to student learning styles, respond to student progress, and support individualized learning.
o They incorporate expertise in domain knowledge, user models, training methods, and evaluation techniques.
o EAGIL draws from computer based instruction programs and incorporates advances in artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, and software engineering. For example, it includes the ability of users to author and adapt tutors, distributed intelligent agents, multimedia and visualization technology, and new work in Associates.
o EAGIL emphasizes customized intelligent support for instructors' curriculum development, lesson plans, administrative tasks, and professional development.
(2) Collaborative Applications for Project-based Educational Resources (CAPER) include authentic, multimedia, synthetic environments that supports involvement, experimentation, exploration, and collaboration in cross-disciplinary projects. CAPER incorporates work in distributed simulation, visualization and multimedia environments, a spectrum of virtual reality and virtual worlds, including immersive techniques as well as text-based collaborative games (such as MUDs, MOOs etc.), and developments in project-based curriculum.
(3) Smart Navigators to Access and Integrated Resources (SNAIR). These are intelligent agents for students and instructors that access, mediate, tailor, and integrate networked data and computational resources. SNAIR is coordinated with current NSF/ARPA digital library projects and draws upon and advances current work in navigators, browsers, mediators, advanced and customizable user interfaces, user and domain modeling, human language technology, and Associates technology.
URL: http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/research/index.html
DARPA has initiated a Training Superiority Program, nicknamed DARWARS, that seeks to transform military training by providing continuously-available, on-demand mission-level training for all forces at all echelons. This goal will be attained by providing a new kind of cognitive training experience for units and individuals based on continuously available wars. DARWARS aims to create new kinds of training systems and then to link them and other training systems together to provide a set of universal, on-demand, persistent training wars for anyone, any echelon, at any time.
Article on DARWARS: A Possible Future for Military Training, by Ralph Ernest Chatham, July 23, 2003.
______________________________________________________________________________
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD). It manages and directs selected basic and applied research and development projects for DoD, and pursues research and technology where risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional military roles and missions and dual-use applications.
* DARPA Fact File, April 2002 describes many DARPA programs.
* The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Technology Office (ITO) is responsible for research into breakthrough information technologies for use in advanced defense applications. The office's mission is to provide the networking and computing hardware, software, systems and management technologies vital to ensuring DoD military superiority.
They have a number of research efforts that are grouped under
o Networking & Distributed Systems
o Embedded & Autonomous Systems
o Intelligent Software
* One DARPA project is Control of Agent Based Systems (CoABS). CoABS is building software agents or software robots that drastically reduce the time that warfighters spend manipulating information systems rather than focusing on their mission. The CoABS Grid Military User’s Group (GMUG) shares inter-service initiatives, lessons learned and user experience with the Grid.
* What If Simulation System for Advanced Research and Development (WISSARD) is located at Naval Air Station Oceana, VA and was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). WISSARD participates in distributed simulation and activities providing air threat models and other capabilities.
* Another DARPA Information Technology Office R&D initiative of interest to the military training community was the Computer Assisted Education & Training Initiative (CAETI). The three CAETI themes, EAGIL, CAPER, and SNAIR are:
(1) Expert Associates to Guide Individualized Learning (EAGIL) for students and instructors.
o EAGIL products are intelligent guides, tutors or associates that adapt to student learning styles, respond to student progress, and support individualized learning.
o They incorporate expertise in domain knowledge, user models, training methods, and evaluation techniques.
o EAGIL draws from computer based instruction programs and incorporates advances in artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, and software engineering. For example, it includes the ability of users to author and adapt tutors, distributed intelligent agents, multimedia and visualization technology, and new work in Associates.
o EAGIL emphasizes customized intelligent support for instructors' curriculum development, lesson plans, administrative tasks, and professional development.
(2) Collaborative Applications for Project-based Educational Resources (CAPER) include authentic, multimedia, synthetic environments that supports involvement, experimentation, exploration, and collaboration in cross-disciplinary projects. CAPER incorporates work in distributed simulation, visualization and multimedia environments, a spectrum of virtual reality and virtual worlds, including immersive techniques as well as text-based collaborative games (such as MUDs, MOOs etc.), and developments in project-based curriculum.
(3) Smart Navigators to Access and Integrated Resources (SNAIR). These are intelligent agents for students and instructors that access, mediate, tailor, and integrate networked data and computational resources. SNAIR is coordinated with current NSF/ARPA digital library projects and draws upon and advances current work in navigators, browsers, mediators, advanced and customizable user interfaces, user and domain modeling, human language technology, and Associates technology.
URL: http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/research/index.html
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