711 HPW's Live-Virtual-Constructive program wins regional technology transfer award

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  • By John Schutte
  • 711th Human Performance Wing
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE - --  The Air Force Research Laboratory's 711th Human Performance Wing, Human Effectiveness Directorate, Warfighter Readiness Research Division (711 HPW/RHA) received a 2009 Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Excellence in Technology Transfer award at the FLC Midwest Regional Conference held August 18-20 in Bloomington, Indiana. 

Ms. Kristen Barrerra, program manager for the Live-Virtual-Constructive (LVC) technology demonstration program being conducted at the 711 HPW/RHA's Mesa, Arizona site, accepted the award on behalf of the LVC team. 

Leveraging Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) with multiple partners to streamline technology integration, the LVC team, under the guidance of RHA technical advisor Dr. Winston "Wink" Bennett, sliced five years off industry-predicted development time for the emerging LVC training concept. 

The LVC technology integrates live elements (real people using real equipment in the real world), virtual elements (real people operating real equipment, such as a simulator, in an immersive computer-generated virtual environment), and constructive elements (computer-generated "people," models, or game-type situational simulations) into a single training environment. 

The LVC system also collects data from networked LVC simulation environments and organizes it into statistically friendly formats, resulting in improved trustworthiness of readiness and performance assessments in both live and virtual environments. It also provides a way to capture and review important data about personnel readiness, which training managers can analyze later to evaluate trends in personnel performance and to specify individualized training needs based on performance metrics. 

The FLC is a network of federal laboratories that provides the opportunity for government scientists to collaborate with their counterparts in commercial, industrial and academic fields to link technologies and expertise with the marketplace.