Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Life Threatening Situations Extended Reality Trainer Information Session October 15, 2024

  • October 15, 2024 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

  • Eastern Standard Time

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Description

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Life

Threatening Situations Extended Reality Trainer 

Information Session

3:00 pm-4:30 pm EDT * October 15, 2024

 

The Central Florida Tech Grove, in partnership with Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNS), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), NavalX, and the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD), is executing a prize challenge to identify solutions that provide a thorough and realistic virtual reality training solution for life-threatening situation refresher training.  Naval mechanics are required to meet training criteria for initial qualification and requalification to ensure they can quickly and accurately respond to life-threatening situations encountered onboard ships. 

 

Training is currently conducted in a classroom setting almost exclusively through verbal communication and visual examples.  The current training format takes a large amount of time out of production on the waterfront and does not put the student in a realistic training environment. The objective of this challenge is to produce prototypes of a deployable Virtual Reality trainer for faster and more effective qualifying of sailors to meet the Navy training requirements, reduce the amount of time production workers are off the waterfront, and reduce the impact imposed on the training department. 

 

Join us for the information session with PNS subject matter experts to learn more about the need for Developing a VR Training Solution for Rapid, Realistic Naval Mechanics Training.  The Tech Grove team will also be available to answer questions about the Challenge process.  

 

Learn all about the Challenge HERE.

 

Prototypes submitted by all participants will be evaluated by subject matter experts (SMEs) from the supporting DOD entities listed above with backgrounds in training and evaluation.  Rating will be done by technical personnel experienced in conducting PNS training and analysis. Three finalists will be selected based on the evaluation of qualified submissions of prototypes and participation in the Prize Challenge Demo Day. The top performing participant will be awarded $75,000 in prize money with $55,000 and $40,000 awards to the second and third-ranked participants.  

 

Register today for the Information Session to learn more!

 

This session will be recorded and the recording will be posted on our YouTube channel.  

 

 

 

 

Date & Time

Tue, Oct 15, 2024 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Central Florida Tech Grove

The Central Florida Tech Grove is a hub for accelerating collaboration and innovation in defense modeling, simulation, training, and human performance.  Tech Grove is located in the Central Florida Research Park in Orlando, Florida which is the epicenter of the nation's largest cluster of government, industry, academic, and industry organizations developing and delivering training and simulation products for our nation's military. Tech Grove was established in 2020 through a Partnership Intermediary Agreement (PIA) between the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) and the University of Central Florida Research Foundation.  Ten other Department of Defense entities are Tech Grove members with NAWCTSD: US Army Program Executive Office for Simulation Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), US Air Force Agency for Modeling & Simulation (AFAMS), US Marine Corps Program Manager for Training Systems (PM TRASYS), US Army Simulation & Training Technology Center (STTC), US Army Futures Command Synthetic Training Environment Cross-Functional Team (STE CFT), Defense Health Agency (DHA), U.S. Space Force Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM), Strategic Environmental Research and Development (SERDP), Army Modeling Simulation Office (AMSO), and the Office of Naval Research through the NavalX Central Florida Tech Bridge.  

www.CentralFloridaTechGrove.org