Integrated Visualization and Control for Live, Virtual, and Constructive Training Management IVAC-4-LVAC)

To help training managers process the diverse and high-volume streams of information from LVC training exercises and control the entities within those exercises, we propose to design and demonstrate a system for Integrated Visualization and Control for Live, Virtual, and Constructive Training Management (IVAC-4-LVAC). Our solution is comprised of three key elements: 1) Advanced visualizations of complex training exercises provide observability of the training objectives and behaviors of the entities working toward achieving these training objectives; 2) Innovative control techniques provide directability to training managers so that they can manipulate entities to achieve the training objectives; 3) A framework for the intelligent collection and fusion of real-time entity behavior characteristics provides the information necessary for the visualizations and transmits direction from the control techniques. A key aspect of our technical approach is to ground the solution in a Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) of the work environment. The CWA captures the relationships between entity behavior and higher-level intended effects (i.e., objectives) in a functional model of the environment. This model produces a set of functional requirements for the visualizations and control techniques.