FASTVDO LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: A19-139
FASTVDO LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $116,500
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- A19-139
- Solicitation
- 19.3
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- FL
- Period
- 2020-05-27 → 2020-12-14
Description
Modeling, simulation and training (MS&T) is the backbone of the military’s ability to train the next generation of warfighters. The US Army is developing the Synthetic Training Environment (STE) for Force 2025 to “provide a cognitive, collective, multi-echelon training and mission rehearsal capability,” at the point of need. This is meant as a software solution to integrate with COTS/GOTS hardware for fully immersive training. Fundamentally, it leverages the latest AR/VR technologies for interactive training of unprecedented realism, i.e., bloodless combat virtually in-situ. While there are many aspects to this challenge, a central technical hurdle is to create the capability of streaming AR/VR content to a potentially dense number of participants (tens to thousands) that is as realistic as possible. The aim is to create a networked application with instant response. Its achievement relies critically on fast communications and proximal computing.