Dismounted Infantry Decision Skills Assessment in the Virtual Training Environment

摘要

This report was developed under a Small Business Innovation Research Program, Phase II. The Virtual Soldier Skills Assessment (ViSSA) is a software system that operates in a DIS/HLA-based virtual environment. ViSSA can automatically detect significant events in virtual exercises. It also has a logger/playback module to allow to assist the trainer or Observer/Controller (O/C) in highlighting these significant events during the after action review (AAR) The system is designed to assess warfighter skills, decision-making, and situational awareness. Event/Condition/Action rules are designed by experts for consistent assessment against Doctrine. ViSSA can reduce training and assessment costs by minimizing the burden on the O/C and assisting in orchestrating an effective AAR by providing the rapid replay of significant events, summary statistics, and critical decision points during the exercise. Training for urban operation missions is limited by time, cost, and safety factors. Virtual environment technologies like ViSSA have the potential to provide the Army with a training capability to meet these demands to optimize human performance by enhancing Soldier decision-making skills.