Simulated Environments

SAIC's success in the field of simulation technology is not only helping to maintain superior U.S. troop readiness, but also helping to keep costs in line with budgets. As a result, other non-military organizations are turning to SAIC to utilize similar technology to train personnel as well.

As an example, SAIC is providing simulated environments to train both first responders and Civil Support Teams (CST) throughout the U.S.

Using the Automated Exercise Assesment System (AEAS), emergency response personnel can experience the entire process that traditional training offers, but without the expense of in-the-field exercises.

In the AEAS simulated environment, leadership, first responders, and CST teams learn how to properly handle a variety of threats or simulated events including: weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, biological or chemical, and hazard or toxic material spills.

The simulated environment training offers realistic settings in a choice of several digital model cities. Each individual city is detailed with reality-based infrastructure components and also includes natural physical features like rivers and forested areas, as well as urban features such as road signs, fire hydrants, tunnels, bridges, building interiors and furniture. New cities and urban environments can rapidly be added to the system. Other variables that can be incorporated into the training are environmental conditions such as time of day, wind direction and speed, humidity and ground moisture. Even crowds, traffic congestion, and media can be added to enhance training effectiveness. Essentially, training scenarios are unlimited.

AEAS is designed to focus on training individuals or teams and a variety of specialty professions that will ensure that all domestic preparedness issues are addressed. The system supports METLs (Mission Essential Task Lists) and Battle Tasks in Medical Risk Management.