Display showcases future Army training, leader development

WASHINGTON -- The Army Exhibit at the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting will display ways the Army will use technology to train Soldiers and develop leaders.

The display -- called the Future Army Training Environment -- will include:

• The Combined Arms Virtual Collective Trainer that will help the Army provide a low-cost, medium-fidelity collective trainer for mounted maneuver forces. The project follows an effort at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., to develop requirements for a simulator that Stryker units use for training.

• The One World Terrain research effort that demonstrates how technology can create global terrain at the Soldier level of fidelity to allow units to train for missions anywhere in the world. With its partners, the Army will create a single terrain capability that will allow Soldiers to walk the simulated ground where they will train or fight.

• Augmented Reality Helmet Mounted Displays that demonstrate the ability to deploy a training system that combines live and virtual synthetic entities. The Army Research Laboratory is developing the technology that eventually will provide an immersive environment to replicate the complex operational environment.

• A video that that will show a segment of the Battle of Stalingrad virtual staff ride. The Army University Press Staff Ride Team developed the Stalingrad staff ride to help Army leaders understand large-scale combat in dense urban terrain and to prepare them for similar conflicts.

• Looping videos that explain how the Army is using technology now to train Soldiers and develop leaders, and how the Army the plans to use technology to create a new training environment, called the Synthetic Training Environment.

The AUSA Annual Meeting is Oct. 9-11 at the Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt. Vernon Place NW, Washington. The Army Exhibit is in Hall D.