MOTAR-in-a-Box at the Edge

The top DoD challenge in 2024 is building enduring advantages for strategic competition. To build the advantage the Army is focused on Multi-Domain Operations, the Navy has placed an emphasis on near-peer threats, and the USAF has called for Multi-Capable Airmen (MCA) to operate from an expeditionary position. Across the board, the trend is that our warfighters are required to do more than ever, especially as many billets remain unfilled. Put simply, they must be resilient and agile. To accomplish this, the 22nd Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. signed the service’s first doctrine publication on Agile Combat Employment (ACE). This new doctrine lays out the requirements for expeditionary and multi-capable Airmen capable of accomplishing tasks outside of their core Air Force specialty to provide combat support and combat service support to ACE force elements. To enable this, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has initiated Just-in-time, Multi-Mission Airmen/Warfighters (JIT MMA/W) to support deployed personnel as they become multi-capable airmen while performing tasks outside of their traditional AFSCs. JITMMA/W is enabling ACE and MCA by delivering combat power in austere, forward operating locations in support of expeditionary missions. However, to truly enable MCA, ACE, and JIT MMA/W, the USAF must intelligently deliver training content to the tactical edge. Airmen who are performing tasks outside their traditional AFSC will need additional support, refresher training, and just-in-time training as they execute their new responsibilities and operational training requirements. Therefore, training delivery must be available where and when they need it, irrespective of the type of connectivity available. These points only become more salient as the USAF increasingly relies on XR (Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality) technologies for world-class training. This additional complexity requires a robust platform that can be deployed to austere locations and deliver training without borders, anytime, anywhere, and on any device. The focus of this Phase II effort is to further enhance Dynepic's MOTAR platform to be  to be further containerized in a “box” at the edge so that the platform can be deployed in austere locations and deliver training and combat power in semi-connected, disconnected, and contested environments.