NTSA presents best paper awards at annual conference.

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The National Training and Simulation Association in December presented its best paper awards at the Interser-vice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference in Orlando, Florida.

The I/ITSEC 2016 Best Paper winner was "Individual Officer Encounters with the Public: A Novel Process for Developing Metrics That Measure What Police Do," by Bryan Vila, Ph.D.; Stephen M. James, Ph.D.; and Lois James, Ph.D. It competed in the Human Performance Analysis and Engineering category. The Best Paper Award is the most prestigious honor given out at the conference.

I/ITSEC is the world's largest modeling, simulation and training conference. Hosted by NTSA, an affiliate of the National Defense Industrial Association, it is a highly educational and collaborative conference for the military, national security community, academia and the defense, medical, energy, transportation and manufacturing industries.

The other 2016 subcommittee best papers were:

Emerging Concepts, Innovative Technologies subcommittees: "Making Terrain and Models Portable Using 3D GeoP-DFs," by Thomas W. Kehr II, Herman M. Patel, Ronald G. Moore and Matt Reilly.

Education subcommittee: "Ready, Aim, Perform! Targeted Micro-Training for Performance Intervention," by Dr. Julia Kathryn Carpenter; Dahlia S. Forde, M.S.; Dr. Denise Rose Stevens; Vincent E. Flango, M.Ed.; and Lisa K. Babcock, M.Ed.

Policy, Standards, Management and Acquisition subcommittee: "Support for Training...