Simulation for Ubiquitous REd Flag Instruction and REadying (SUREFIRE)

To participate in Red Flag exercises participants must be familiar with specific procedures, conditions, and training rules for range safety. Preparing non-US participants requires USAF personnel to travel to each participating country to provide this pre-exercise familiarization. This is expensive in money, time, and resources. A training environment deployable to the participant country prior to the exercise, and requiring no in-country participation by USAF personnel would provide considerable savings. To meet this need, we propose to design and demonstrate a Simulation for Ubiquitous REd Flag Instruction and REadying (SUREFIRE). Four core activities characterize our effort: One, we will design the integration of simulator, agent, and voice interaction enabling capabilities, and add custom training interfaces and feedback components. Two, we will define scenario creation requirements based on our subject matter expert’s expertise, past Red Flag exercises, the capabilities of Red Flag personnel, and analysis of participants specific training needs. Three, we will design a graphical scenario creator. Four, we will identify evaluation criteria by which effectiveness of training with SUREFIRE can be assessed. We will leverage our team’s expertise in agent based modeling, training support systems, and flight simulator integration to rapidly demonstrate these capabilities. BENEFIT: Voice enabled agents can play a role in wide variety of domains, from automated telephone receptionists (where they are frequently used currently) to personal assistants to video game adversaries. By integrating cutting edge speech processing and natural language processing capabilities into our user-friendly agent development environment, AgentWorks™, we can broaden its market. In addition, rapid scenario generation and agent customization capabilities can be applied to many training, simulation, and entertainment systems in a number of domains.