VCCT Briefing

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Supporting Tactical Convoy Operations Training
Virtual Combat Convoy Trainer (VCCT) and Close
Combat Tactical Trainer Reconfigurable Vehicle
Simulator (CCTT-RVS)
Lockheed Martin Simulation, Training
Support Orlando, Florida 32825
2 February 2006
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An Evolving Training Mission

• Weve focused initially on individual and vehicle
  crew drills . . .
• Variable terrain in a mix of weather, visibility,
  and threat conditions
• Small arms, crew served weapons, radios and other
  C4I devices
• Medical and fire support coordination

2004
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LM STS Convoy Trainer Evolution
2003 2004 2005 2006
VCCT- L
VCCT IRAD 360 / Reconfig
LM STS team develop virtual devices supporting
mechanized forces
OEF/OIF demand convoy trainers. LM STS
leverages CCTT expertise to win.
Army leases VCCTs while USAF places system on
order . . . USMC gains systems.
Army considering long-term VCCT solution,
leveraging CCTT investments.
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Convoy Trainer Overviews
Immersive Combat Convoy Trainer for light forces
. . . provides Gun Truck training venue
consistent with support and combat operations in
the Contemporary Operating Environment . . .
Mainstream CCTT-Reconfigurable Vehicle Simulator
for heavy forces . . . brings Gun Trucks and
other convoy vehicles into the M1 Tank, M2/3
Bradley, BFIST, and Apache virtual battlespace .
. . .
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Combat Convoy Training Approach

• General and specific driving and engagement
  skills
• Collective, immersive 360-degree virtual
  environment with precision weapons engagement
  system, C4I connectivity, and supporting air
  medical representation
• Urban and rural geo-specific terrain with
  non-combatant vehicles, pedestrians, and a full
  range of threat capabilities
• Common CCTT vehicle software, databases and AAR
• Clear growth path to US Army Synthetic
  Environment Core, Objective-OneSAF, and Soldier
  CATT

Creation of a Virtual environment suitable for
all manner of combined arms training
Flexible solution allows for rapid integration of
lessons learned (i.e. IED Task Force, Center for
Army Lessons Learned, NTC, JRTC)
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VCCT Configurations
VCCT systems can be configured as mobile or
fixed site training systems . . . system
composition is flexible, though each site
generally hosts four full-scale HMMWV trainers
networked to represent a single convoy.
High demand called for Mobile systems initially,
giving way to Fixed sites over time.
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VCCT Components

• Full-size HMMWV mockup
• - Driver controls, full sound, FBCB2
  interface, 360-degree view
• - Up-armored other variants

• Weapons Engagement System
• - Four M16 rifles, one crew served weapon
  per HMMWV
• - Validated ballistics, full recoil, sound,
  and optics
• - weapons include M2, M9, M16, M4, M249,
  M240, M2, Mk19, M203, M1200, AT-4

• Instructor/Operator Station After Action Review
  (AAR)
• - Scenario Generation
• - Real-time tailoring
• - Playback

Tools supporting training crawl, walk, run
strategies
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CCTT-RVS Configuration
CCTT-RVS made its debut in December 2005 at
I/ITSEC, demonstrating interoperability with
existing VCCTs and AVCATT . . . the RVS design
equips each trailer with two reconfigurable
vehicle mock-ups supported by an Instructor
station AAR.

• CCTT Fixed Sites
• US Army
• -Ft Hood -Ft Knox
• -Ft Bliss -Ft Riley
• -Ft Carson -Ft Stewart
• -Ft Benning -Korea

• CCTT Mobile Sites
• US Army
• -Friedberg -Schweinfurt
• -Baumholder
• US Army National Guard
• -California -Louisiana
• -Tennessee -South Carolina
• -Pennsylvania

Distribution will complement CCTT sites beginning
in 2006.
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CCTT-RVS Components

• Reconfigurable vehicle mockup
• - Driver controls, full sound, FBCB2
  interface, 360-degree view
• - Five variants per mock-up

• Weapons Engagement System
• - Validated ballistics, full recoil, sound,
  and optics
• - Weapons include M2, M9, M16, M4, M249,
  M240, M2, Mk19, M203, M1200, AT-4
• - Tetherless weapons option via Bluetooth
  technology

• Instructor/Operator Station After Action Review
  (AAR)
• - Scenario Generation
• - Real-time tailoring
• - Playback

Tools supporting integrated combined arms
training with the full CCTT ground aviation
family.
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Summary
Convoys are an indispensable element of modern
operations and a key target for the foreseeable
future. Virtual training technologies provide the
environment needed to develop critical
individual, crew, and collective convoy
operations skills. VCCT and CCTT-RVS trainers
occupy the mainstream of emerging convoy training
systems, combining historical lessons-learned and
manufacturing expertise with state-of-the-art
software and hardware training technologies.