Army training must become more agile and adaptive to prepare units and leaders for tomorrow's challenges, Brig. Gen. Joseph M. Martin said.
Martin, the deputy commanding general of the Combined Arms Center - Training, addressed 250 Army and industry leaders on Feb. 5 at the Force 2025 Realistic Training Industry Forum at Fort Leavenworth. He said Army leaders recently studied training, and found strengths and weaknesses.
"Our current training capability is absolutely sufficient to train us in our core competencies," Martin said. "It's the best on the face of the Earth."
"However, it is not agile and adaptive enough for a rapidly changing and complex operational environment," he said.
The Army's near-term challenge is to improve training at home station. The Integrated Training Environment that combines live, virtual and constructive training enablers will help meet this challenge, Martin said.
In the longer-term, the Army must develop training to reflect a complex operational environment and help commanders conduct training. Martin listed six science and technology efforts to enhance future training capabilities:
• A single synthetic environment to collapse virtual, constructive and gaming capabilities into one environment. Augmented reality would bring complexity to live training.
• Intelligent tutors to provide leaders with a holistic training common operational picture, after-action reviews and virtual coaches.
• A one-world terrain database to encompass digital dirt for the land, sea, air, space and cyber domains.
• Big data to enable seamless planning, preparation, execution and assessment of training.
• Artificial intelligence to replicate a complicated operational environment and provide a virtual opposing force.
• Systems to deliver training at the point of need.
Martin's briefing and other information about the Force 2025 Industry Forum are available at: http://usacac.army.mil/organizations/cact/industryforum.
In addition, a recording of Martin's speech is available at:
https://www.dvidshub.net/audio/40131/brig-gen-joseph-martins-speech#.VOJiVy5FZ9s
The Combined Arms Center (CAC) hosted the forum.
CAC develops and integrates Army leader development, doctrine, education, lessons learned, functional training, training support, training development, and proponent responsibilities to support mission command and prepare the Army to successfully conduct unified land operations in a joint, inter-agency, inter-governmental and multinational environment.
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