Given the continued explosion of advanced technology options for military education and training, their application can be viewed as an opportunity and a risk. The opportunity is taking advantage of the latest commercial technology for more realistic mission training at substantially lower costs.
The risks can come from a couple of key things we see happening today. There is usually a lack of a principled approach to requirements definition in the acquisition of training and educational systems to perform specific tasks. Further, there is typically a lack of comparisons among alternative solutions to meet those requirements.  Audience members will connect with a group of multinational innovators who are working to increase the rigor applied to the fuller life-cycle of technology selection, implementation, evaluation and feedback. Event participants will also have a chance to hear about panel member’s process, successes and continuing challenges in research explorations happening in the real world.  Audience members will also come away with a much better understanding of what approaches and methods have been shown to work and to provide “decision-quality” findings.