A partnership between the Defense Innovation Unit and Air Education and Training Command aims to modernize pilot training using existing commercial technologies, including extended reality and mixed reality devices.
DIU and AETC have collaborated with Vertex Solutions, Discovery Machine, CAE and Google to field 225 immersive training devices at the four U.S. Air Force undergraduate training sites under the Pilot Training Transformation, or PTT, program, DIU said Monday.
The devices operate on a DIU-prototyped containerized commercial cloud network and capture and ingest data into a cloud-based learning management system to assist training instructors in managing grades, schedules and syllabus progression.
AETC is also prototyping a Multi-place Mixed Reality flight simulator that will serve as the primary aircrew training device for the U.S. Air Force’s TH-1H helicopter fleet.
Under the PTT initiative, DIU partnered with 19th Air Force/Detachment 24 and technology provider Metrea Simulations to prototype a Virtual Training for Air Dominance system to provide a next-generation simulation engine for virtual training environments.
