While the commercial world continues to wrap its mind around the concept of the metaverse—a fully immersive virtual environment—it has a direct application today for militaries around the world.
“Our militaries have signaled that we must train as we fight. We must simulate as we plan, and we must migrate our training increasingly from live to synthetic environments,” said Peder Jungck, vice president and general manager of Intelligence Solutions at BAE Systems.
BAE Systems recently kicked off the first of a series of investor-focused tech webinars called, “The Thread.” This series highlights the company’s advanced technologies and capabilities—an important thread that connects its business and people.
During the first webinar, Jungck and Lucy Walton, head of training for the Air sector in the U.K., discussed how the company is using its synthetic environment capability to provide synthetic training, digital wargaming, and digital engineering environments to support Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) simulation.
A key component to providing training and wargaming exercises is building high-fidelity and realistic environments. This capability is provided in partnership with Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim), a company BAE Systems acquired in early 2022. BISim is a market leader in developing synthetic environments that accurately represent the real world and help decision makers understand complex systems and make informed decisions.
“A simulation cannot have two definitions of where an entity in the world is. You can’t have a building that is not in the same location for each simulation,” said Jungck. “It should also be able to experience the physics with fidelity to understand the bounds of where those buildings are, so that the digital and artificial intelligence entities know where to move,” explained Jungck.
Cybersecurity is also crucial to making interactive and cross-domain simulation work. As the leading driver of secure multi-cloud consumption, BAE Systems’ synthetic environments are built on a secure cloud foundation at multiple classification levels.
BAE Systems has been providing a virtual battlespace for the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, the U.K. Ministry of Defence, and more than 60 international militaries for over a decade. More recently, the company has focused on creating solutions for joint training exercises that enable people to operate missions together across multiple domains instead of on an individual basis.
“The scale of these training events is only going to get larger as we increase multi-domain interoperability,” said Walton. “With synthetics, the only limitations are the technology and your imagination.”
The entire webinar can be viewed here. The next episode of “The Thread” will focus on digital transformation.
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