Distributed Planning, Debriefing, and after-action-review Capability

The aims and opportunities of the Joint-NEXWARS-Web-Module (J-NEXWARS) are to provide an effective capability for trainee collaboration in support of mission planning/briefing and/or trainee/instructor interaction for monitoring, debriefing and after-action-review of long-haul, distributed, computer-driven, simulations in support of team coordination training. Uniquely, OSD/AFRL and ONR/USMC support of integration of SDS' Decision-Skills-Training-Web-Module(DST-WM) and NEXWARS products already provides the foundational basis for near-term evolution of J-NEXWARS capacities. Currently, operational USA/USMC C2PC software interfaced to and augmented by DST-WM enhanced versions of the NEXWARS 3D-Viewer; Microsoft's Netmeeting; and GOTS Marine-Digital-Voice are provided as the baseline tools for trainee collaboration during USMC distributed mission planning/briefing, exercise monitoring and simultaneous replay of simulation exercises at geographically-separated sites including both the simulation visual display and selected trainee/instructor communications occurring during the exercise. This basis enables near-term development of advanced J-NEXWARS features such as new composite types of interactive control including jointly viewing live/simulation or replayed time-slices via master/multiple-slave shared 3D Stealths, web movies, snap-shots, timelines, and tables/graphs illustrating outcomes of mission planning and simulation training/rehearsal exercises. J-NEXWARS features-set also includes SMARTr board integration options, plus direct production from distributed exercises of Advanced-Distance-Learning content (i.e., SCORM-Sharable-Content-Objects); Case Studies; "Take-Home-Lessons-Learned" packages; Virtual-Reality-Space-Time- Mapping of scenario-based training events.