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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Terri Bernhardt (407) 883-5181
ECS’ Support to NATO ACT Continues with Augmented Virtuality Contract.
Orlando, Fla. August 3, 2011. Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS) announced that it received a contract from the NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) to develop its Augmented Virtuality Environment.
NATO ACT is transforming the way the NATO prepares and assists future decision makers and leaders to employ joint operational art, understand the common operational picture, respond innovatively, and adapt quickly to our adversaries. The responsibility of delivering knowledge through technologies, such as virtual worlds, will take on many forms, including education, training, learning, and human expertise. It is the goal of the NATO ACT to make this knowledge available anytime and anywhere, using a state-of-the-art distribution process to match advanced knowledge content with individuals and groups to improve joint operational proficiency and effectiveness. To support this, ECS is delivering its Nexus Virtual World platform and associated tools to facilitate the training of military, other government and non-governmental organizations on all perspectives and processes in that operational environment. This application of Nexus specifically highlights the different ways that military service members and civilians visualize and perceive the same information in an operational setting. The application will be demonstrated live today during Advanced Learning’s annual ImplementationFest.
Since 2003, NATO ACT has been seeking methods to improve civil and military interaction. From the birth of a Civil-Military Interaction concept, to the establishment of a functioning organization, there are many challenges that must be overcome in developing an emerging operational capability. Recognizing this, NATO Supreme Allied Command Transformation Headquarters dedicated the manpower and resources to establish the “Civil-Military Fusion Centre” and its “CimicWeb” portal, with the office commencing operations in January 2008. The Centre was founded as a functioning prototype and tool to facilitate information sharing between civilian and military actors during natural and man-made crisis situations in order to enhance their sense of shared situational awareness. The Centre has now successfully entered its third year of operation and continues to serve as a unique and world class organization promoting closer relationships between civilian and military actors by providing a venue to communicate and collaborate to create a shared holistic view of the civil-military engagement space.
NATO ACT Project Manager, Wayne Buck stated, “Based on their training and experiences, civilians representing any of the myriad non-governmental and private volunteer organizations, and military members have different perspectives of our operational environments. There is a distinct requirement to educate each other, military and civilians alike, so that we can collaborate and assist each other in performing our individual missions.”
ECS President, Waymon Armstrong, stated “The use of the Nexus virtual world as a venue for the interchange between civil and military organizations is a natural extension of NATO’s current use for a diverse set of requirements and an enhancement that adds significant benefits for future users of the Nexus virtual world.”
About ECS
Engineering & Computer Simulations, Inc. is a software development and solutions company located in Orlando, Florida. The core mission of the organization is to provide advanced learning technology solutions to clients within the Commercial and Government sector. The company’s technology portfolio of immersive virtual worlds, serious gaming, performance assessment, staff training, and mobile innovations offers efficiencies in education, training and collaboration.
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