Simulation Employment Training

The course is principally designed to prepare selected military officers for future technical and management appointments within the field of defence simulation, but is also appropriate to all candidates from Air, Land, Maritime and Joint domains, including civilians and defence industry.

The course will suit a broad range of delegates working in or alongside modelling and simulation in defence who wish to understand the technologies, methodologies, applications and challenges involved.

• The role of models, simulations and synthetic environments within Defence
• The fundamental principles of Defence models, simulations and synthetic environments
• The role of hardware and software in the creation of modelling and simulation solutions
• The key defence modelling and simulation organisations, their structure, capabilities and activities
• The methods and principles of combat modelling and wargaming in analysis and training
• Methodologies and techniques used in analysis and experimentation
• The principles of Computer Generated Forces (CGFs) and Semi-Automated Forces (SAFs)
• The enabling technologies and methodologies underpinning real time graphics (RTG), including 3D Modelling and terrain building
• The challenges and opportunities in the use of commercial off the shelf products (COTS) for Defence modelling and simulation, including games technologies and components
• The role of Defence synthetic environments (networked, federated and distributed simulations), the technology and standards used to create them and the interoperability issues and challenges when so doing
• Participate in a practical example of the design, develop, construct and use of a synthetic environment
• Issues in the practical development and acquisition of modelling and simulation through case studies of real programmes and visits to selected sites.