The U.S. Navy unveiled its new Combined Integrated Air and Missile Defense Trainer facility on Thursday at Naval Base San Diego in California, DVDIShub.net reported Thursday.
The shore-based trainer enables shipboard operators and tacticians to refine their combat systems expertise in complex settings without the distractions and risks that come with live training.
CIAT contains a sonar room, a mock combat information center, a control room and a debrief room.
The facility also lets trainees and instructors benefit from integrated debriefing functions such as after-action reporting and instructor analysis.Â
“Sailors gain the experience of using tactically coded equipment, high fidelity simulation tools and a uniquely integrated debrief capability; all of which are non-existent in shipboard training systems,†said Lt. Cmdr. Reisheid Dixon, officer-in-charge of the Center for Surface Combat Systems in San Diego.
CIAT developers are planning to add a new location at a CSCS detachment in Norfolk, Va., as well as two reconfigurable trainers for combat information center operations at the Aegis Training and Readiness Center in Dahlgren.