Mission Training via Distributed

Problem area Embedded Training (ET) provides many benefits for education and training on individual, team, and inter-team level. Furthermore, ET enables the integration of platforms equipped with ET into a Live-Virtual-Constructive (LVC) environment, as ET already integrates a constructive simulated environment into a live environment. Blending LVC and ET presents opportunities to flexibly scale training application from individual training to large scale air operation and joint training exercises. Description of work This paper elaborates the position about blending ET and LVC, the benefits that can be gained from ET enabled platforms in LVC environments and how both technologies- together with pure live, virtual or constructive training- co-exist well to provide optimal flexibility to tailor operational training. Some technological challenges are still to be addressed; not so much specific to ET/LVC integration, but for LVC at large. Example: the usage of wider area lower bandwidth data-links to communicate virtual and constructive simulation data with live platforms; here ET technology offers opportunities to distribute constructive simulations based on the level of interaction in the scenario. Results and conclusions There are several reasons why LVC without an advanced ET capability cannot reach the full training potential of having both in synergy