Army's One World Terrain on Track For 2023 Deadline.

• Author: Roaten, Meredith
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FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom--Key training and simulation software the Army has vowed to field by 2023 is on track for delivery, one of the contractors developing the project said in July.

Bohemia Interactive Simulations' work on the One World Terrain, which supports the Army's Synthetic Training Environment, is on schedule, William Day, senior project technical lead, said on the sidelines of the Farnbor-ough Airshow in the United Kingdom.

The Synthetic Training Environment is a top modernization priority for the Army. In 2021, Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville vowed to deliver 24 new technologies by 2023 that are part of its top modernization priorities. One World Terrain was one of the programs on the list.

One Word Terrain seeks to render the entire world in 3D so soldiers can train virtually for missions located anywhere on Earth prior to a mission. It also plans to leverage 5G technology and the network so soldiers can train wherever they are stationed.

Meanwhile, the Army ordered its program executive office for simulation, training and instrumentation to move up the Synthetic Training Environment's deadline from 2028 to 2024, the head of PEO STRI said earlier this year.

Bohemia will create a digital twin of the terrain needed for the training environment for the program, including reconfigurable vehicle trainers, weapons handling trainers and desktop simulations, Day said.

Flexibility is important for the Synthetic Training Environment's software so it can be deployed to wherever soldiers need it.

"If they want to be able to do training hours in forward operating bases, there are kits that can then enable that. Likewise, you can have classroom-based training at the bases," he said.

Bohemia is offering other products that tap into geospatial data to give warfighters high-fidelity renderings of the areas of operations where they may be fighting. Using data from open sources or provided by government organizations, the VBS4 from Bohemia can build terrain for warfighters to explore, said Rusmat Ahmed, senior vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa sales at the company.

The company--which was acquired by London-based BAE Systems earlier this year--demonstrated the accuracy of the technology's virtual worlds during the airshow.

During the demonstration, company engineers pulled in data from the search engine Bing to show how quickly the software can construct training environments in different locations around the world...