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Tailoring Training for Disparately Skilled Participants in Large Scale Training Exercises

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N68335-10-C-0427
Agency Tracking Number: N09A-007-0148
Amount: $749,966.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: N09-T007
Solicitation Number: 2009.A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2009
Award Year: 2010
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2010-09-02
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2012-03-02
Small Business Information
4 Wendram Bluff NE
Iowa City, IA -
United States
DUNS: 625152140
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Thomas Schnell
 Principal Investigator
 (319) 631-4445
 thomas-schnell@engineering.uiowa.edu
Business Contact
 A. Schmeiser
Title: Chief, Financial Officer
Phone: (319) 337-7059
Email: rschmeiser@aol.com
Research Institution
 University of Iowa
 Thomas Schnell
 
2135 Seamans Center
Iowa City, IA 52242-
United States

 (319) 631-4445
 Nonprofit College or University
Abstract

The SKATE concept was designed to quantify skill levels of trainees, teams, or units, generate skill-appropriate training scenarios, and provide a continuous skill-level assessment of disparately skilled trainees, teams, and units in a joint training exercise while maintaining the overall integrity and realism of the mission itself. SKATE evaluates the skill level of an individual, teams, or unit level participants and generates a list of skill-appropriate training scenario components that can be configured into the exercise so as to fulfill the training objectives of the trainees. This will occur at the local level; however, SKATE will communicate to a central node as to the skill level of a particular participant so the overall exercise coordinator can harmonize the different mission tasks that are being performed by the different trainees. Base program: $500K, 18 months. Implement SKATE functions, conduct study to seed database, perform stakeholder demonstration. Option 1: $250K, 9 months. Modify SKATE for integration into transition platform, increase level of automation in scoring mechanism.

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