AUTOMATED OPPOSING FORCES FOR TRAINING SIMULATIONS

Providing realistic opposing forces is critical to the successful use of military training simulations. Unfortunately, a number of issues ca n make the manual control of realistic opposing forces difficult or un attainable, This paper explores these issues while discussing how Auto matic Interactive Targets (AITs) can assist Training Exercise Controll ers (TECs) in providing validated and realistic opposing forces in hig hly interactive situations. The features of the prototype Remote AIT P rocessing System (RAPS) are used to demonstrate how an AIT system can be designed to meet TEC requirements for automated entities, RAPS can provide remote control of AITs for existing or new systems while provi ding sufficient features to allow a TEC to appropriately select and co ntrol AITs for individual training exercises and crew proficiencies.