AWARE: Anti-air Warfare Adaptive Readiness Environment

To maintain the United State Navy’s dominance in the maritime environment it is imperative to continue to develop a more integrated naval battle force. This has led the Navy to invest in capabilities to enhance its distributed lethality by aggregating disparate sensor networks to create a common situational awareness, coordinated engagements, and distributed resource control. However, creating a netted fighting force represents a complex coordination among engineering, acquisitions, and research communities that requires each community to consider its own role within the overall mission objective to best support netted force concepts. This necessitates a learning environment to maintain and achieve proficiencies in netted force concepts. To satisfy this need we propose to develop AWARE: Anti-air Warfare Awareness and Readiness Environment. AWARE will be a realistic, portable learning environment that will teach the conceptual, non-intuitive value of an integrated Naval battle force in an adaptive way across a wide range of learners. Our team will develop AWARE using a scientifically-based methodology that leverages best practices from the psychology of motivation and engagement. AWARE will enable a data-driven, competency-centric learning lifecycle by analyzing user interaction data, generating performance metrics, and presenting the user’s performance in a gameful simulation environment.