Improbable Defence

I/ITSEC 2022

Collective training, collaborative development

10 partners. 12 weeks.
1 shared ambition: to test the limits of synthetic environment development.

The character of warfare is changing. Threats to our armed forces are evolving. But military training is struggling to keep up. Existing environments are slow and expensive to develop. They can’t faithfully represent the real world and the contemporary operating environment, or keep pace with the ever-changing nature of warfare.

To prepare personnel for complex, fast-moving operations in densely populated environments, we need more complex, richly detailed, multi-domain synthetic training solutions that can be developed and adapted at the speed of relevance.

And that’s why we’ve built Skyral: to allow the very best people and organisations from across government, industry and academia to collaborate on the swift, cost-effective development of complex synthetic environments.

Demonstration partners​

Together with 10 of our partners, we got to work on a complex, challenging and rigorous collective training scenario, intending to see just how far and how fast we could take it in the time available.

We wanted to produce a complex, challenging and rigorous collective training capability scenario in order to demonstrate how – when developers use Skyral to collaborate – you get something that’s so much more than the sum of its parts.

 

Whilst not a production-ready capability, the result is a demonstration of what 15 engineers can do in a few months.

  • Effective composition of applications, data and models
  • Visual correlation of different applications
  • Massive scale and density involving over 1m complex entities
  • High-fidelity sub-threshold modelling
  • Rigorous data exploitation

Content partner

Using advanced AI and novel methodologies, Montvieux’s Autonomous Social Agent-based Influence Range observes and measures how synthetic populations react to information events, newscasts and social media feeds as they happen in real time.

Content partner

4C Strategies is a provider of organisational readiness and military training management solutions. Their flagship product, Exonaut, is a data-driven software suite for planning, executing and analysing collective training exercises.

DELL

Partner

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Technology partner

SimCentric create highly immersive virtual worlds using its VR trainer, SAF-TAC. Personnel can train as they fight through realistic and intuitive movements that mimic real-world action.

Partner

From 3D modelling and terrain generation to end-to-end training application development for simulation & training, Simthetiq’s Model Library has over 3000 cross-platform compatible models.

MSFT

Partner

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Content partner

Daden’s Automated Social Media Synthetic Wrap automatically generates social media based on what’s happening in training, helping personnel understand how information spreads and what effect this has on civilian populations.

Partner

Widely-known and well-regarded across defence and the geospatial data management community, Envitia is a data compilation and analytics company. Their central product, the Data Discovery Platform (DDP), is based on open standards for discovery, management and analysis of information.

Partner

VBS4 from Bohemia Interactive Simulations is a whole-earth virtual desktop trainer and simulation host. Trainees and facilitators can create and run any imaginable military training scenario that reflects the complexity of the modern operating environment.

Interested in partnering?

We’re always looking to expand our network of partners, and welcome organisations that share our commitment to developing the best possible capabilities and getting them into the hands of end users fast. Find out more

See the results at I/ITSEC

Discover how our partners worked together over three months to create a synthetic environment to imitate a complex, fast-moving, sub-threshold operation.

If you’re attending I/TSEC and would like to view the demonstration, either as a defence customer or potential partner, please register your interest here.