N6833519C0430

Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) Phase II

AWARE: Anti-air Warfare Awareness and Readiness Environment

Gaming for Conceptual Network Learning for Naval Air Defense

As the nature of Naval warfare changes due to increasing technological innovations and adversarial capabilities, the US Navy must maintain its edge by continuing to invest in and develop sailor training. One technology area that is integral to the Navy's future success regards the capability to enhance its distributed lethality by aggregating disparate sensor networks to create a common situational awareness, coordinated engagements, and distributed resource control. However, creating a netted fighting force represents a complex coordination among sensors, platforms, and personnel, whereby each sailor must consider their own role and available data within the overall mission objective to best support their strike group. TiER1 will build on our Phase I prototype and continue to develop AWARE: Anti-air Warfare Awareness and Readiness Environment into a state-of-the-art learning game for sailors. Once fully developed in Phase II, AWARE will be a realistic, portable learning environment that will teach the conceptual, non-intuitive value of an integrated Naval battle force in an adaptive way across a wide range of learners. AWARE will enable a data-driven, competency-centric learning lifecycle by analyzing user interaction data, generating performance metrics, and presenting the user's performance in a gameful simulation environment.

The goal of phase II is to continue the R&D efforts initiated in Phase I. Funding is based on the results achieved in Phase I and the scientific and technical merit and commercial potential of the project proposed in Phase II.

N181-038

N181-038-0597

18.1

Terence Andre