Next-generation Expeditionary Warfare Intelligent Training (NEW-IT) Program Summary Booklet

摘要

The Capable Manpower Future Naval Capability, Next-generation Expeditionary Warfare Intelligent Training (NEW-IT; N00014-08-C-0186) program is a 3-year contract (FY08-FY11) sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. NEW- IT supports US Marine Corps (USMC) training by delivering adaptive, intelligent, and dynamic instructional support solutions to enhance productive training time, particularly training focused on the development of higher-order cognitive skills. Prototype products developed under NEWIT are being integrated with USMC's Deployable Virtual Training Environment (DVTE), a multi-user laptop- based simulation suite fielded world-wide by the Marine Corps. Specifically, NEW-IT will deliver a software prototype Instructional Support System (ISS) driven by empirically-evaluated instructional theories and methodologies. Additionally, NEW-IT will identify metrics and then measure the effectiveness of the ISS as compared to baseline data collection during initial product testing. These efforts will advance the state of the science via theory development, empirical investigation, and validation testing. Although developmental testing and experimentation will be primarily conducted within the DVTE Combined Arms Network (CAN), NEW-IT products will be generalizable across the range of the DVTE applications, including Virtual BattleSpace 2 (VBS2), and to other current and future simulation-based training platforms.