Training your squads and platoons

DARWARS Ambush! ‑ A multi-player PC-based, small-unit trainer for the full range training for both kinetic and non-kinetic operations. Flexibile and adaptable: users can create new scenarios in the field.

Trainers interested in flexible, agile and adaptable, light-weight training that can be rapidly implemented and adapted.

Sharing lessons learned

StoryWeb^TM ‑ Bringing training value to the war/sea story by creating a method to maintain, index, and distribute oral histories using automatic transcription and search capabilities.

Operations and training staffs needing a method to capture and reuse valuable unit experience, game developers needing a method to rapidly add scenario vignettes.

After Action Review (AAR)

Multimedia AAR ‑ An application that seamlessly captures and integrates disparate streams of multimedia data and incorporates them into a time-synchronized, cohesive picture managed by the exercise controller.

Exercise controllers and simulation developers that need a method to capture the action of exercise players to reinforce training objectives.

Electronic training administration for on-line training courses

DARWARS DTECS ‑ An adaptable training architecture that allows users to tie training records, trainee status, and training objectives together while still allowing the trainer to manipulate and customize the overall program of training.

Trainers, administrators, and developers with a need to closely coordinate, customize and manage computer-based training programs.

Training staff using a scenario-based, multiplayer, on-line approach

Helical Training^TM ‑ An immersive, interactive, experiential training activity used to teach net-centric information management and organizational planning for long-duration, intermediate-intensity operations. This technique brings together many trainees from different locations to work together, accomplishing individual and group goals within a shared scenario.

Task-organized staffs that are geographically separated and must quickly coalesce on command.

Language translation in a tactical setting

TransTalk^TM ‑ A speaker-independent, speech-to-speech translation software system for use in tactical military scenarios that can be operated on multiple hardware platforms, including hand-held devices. Currently working in Arabic to English and English to Arabic.

Personnel interested in language, foreign culture training, and those wanting to add more realism to their simulations and training systems.

Automatic translation and indexing of monitored communications in near real time

BBN Broadcast Monitoring System^TM ‑ A searchable speech-to-text language interpreting capability that creates closed caption English text for Standard Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, or Spanish in near real time.

Operations and intelligenc staff requiring near-real-time access to monitored communications in Arabic, Chinese, or Spanish contexts.

Controlled research environment for cross-cultural experimentation

SABRE^TM ‑ A proven game-based test bed for psychological research and experimentation on how individual and cultural traits can affect decision-making and teamwork skills.

Researchers and testers needing a method to rapidly and reliably gather information and test data on how individual and cultural traits can effect decision-making and teamwork skills.