United States Army Simulation and Training Technology Center
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The United States Army Simulation and Training Technology Center (STTC) provides the United States Department of Defense and United States Department of Homeland Security with applied research, helping to develop simulation technologies, build on current simulation knowledge, and understand system of systems environments where human, agent, and teams are involved. The STTC is located in Orlando, Florida.
History
The STTC traces its lineage to 1983, when the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) started work on a technology to network a large number of manned simulators, emulators, and semi-automated force simulations to form a Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) of a battlefield. DARPA ran the project from 1983 to 1989, and convinced the Army to use DIS technology.
The Army Science Board studied the technology in 1991, and found a central management structure was necessary to ensure an integrated system. The board's recommendation resulted in the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) and U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) sharing management responsibility for the new system. TRADOC designated its National Simulation Center (NSC) as its functional manager for controlling the requirements process. AMC created a new major subordinate command in 1992—the U.S. Army Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM) (its current name being PEO STRI), headquartered in Orlando, Florida—to serve as the technical manager for system execution. STRICOM consisted of two existing organizations, the Project Manager Training Devices (PM TRADE) and Project Manager Instrumentation, Targets and Threat Simulators (PM ITTS), plus two new organizations, the Project Manager for Combined Arms Tactical Training (PM CATT) and the Project Manager for Distributed Interactive Simulation (PM DIS).
In the 1990s, the technology base group of STRICOM formed the Technology Development Center (TDC) and moved to a separate building from the rest of STRICOM. One of TDC's major efforts was the University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) at the University of Southern California.
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