Accurate, Large Bandwidth Underwater Speed and Flow-Angularity Measurement Device

Maintenance and technical skills training is required to build individual proficiency within the U.S. Navy battle groups as well as many of the independent operating units. However, force reduction and budget cutbacks have resulted in the transfer oftraining responsibility for battle groups to the large deck ship and battle force commanders. With further reductions in force levels and budget on the horizon, the Navy has to turn to harnessing distributed learning principles, remote maintenance skillstraining, and maintenance support in a web-based delivery environment. Phase I of this effort will create the system concept and design documents for a web-enabled interactive mentoring system and an instructional content sharing and management system,the two core components of MainTrain, a web-based maintenance instructional delivery and troubleshooting support system.NAVSEA O4L will directly benefit from this technology by having a maintenance crew cost-effectively trained despite force reduction andbudgetary cuts. The commercial version of this system will offer cost-effective, realtime assistance to maintenance field personnel engaged in equipment and machinery repair in remote field locations. The avoidance of travel costs and satisfyingtime-criticality requirements are key to acceptance of this solution in the commercial world.