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Naval Undersea Warfare Center Replicates Real-World Submarine For Virtual Training and Concept of Operations Testing
Selects [Teleplace] Application Collaboration Environment For Evaluation of Cost Reduction and Increased Readiness
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – April 28, 2009 – The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) is taking a fresh, high-tech approach to training and concept of operations testing with its new virtual Combat Systems Center. The purpose of the activity is to evaluate virtual world technology for training, rapid prototyping, collaborative design activities, and war gaming. The system under development is a replicated "real world" submarine combat center where crews could be exercised remotely. New combat attack center designs and configurations can also be tested and evaluated before later stage construction activities. With the virtual Combat Systems Center, NUWC's goal is to significantly reduce costs while increasing readiness and efficiency.
NUWC selected [Teleplace], secure virtual workplace technology, from Teleplace, Inc., as a candidate to provide a complete application collaboration environment that easily integrates all submarine combat center applications and data. The underlying technology of the virtual Combat Systems Center was demonstrated by NUWC last week at the Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds Conference in Washington, D.C.
"The virtual Combat Systems Center has the potential to allow us to effectively train crew members around the world without having to transport them to our physical facilities," said Steve Aguiar, Metaverse Exploration Project lead, at NUWC. "We now have the ability to replicate our submarine environments in high fidelity and provide virtual access to the applications and data the fleet requires. This means that our sailors and officers could always have access to all of the latest training and technical expertise no matter where they are located."
[Teleplace] was selected by NUWC because of its advanced application collaboration capabilities and the software's ability to easily import 3D objects. With [Teleplace], crewmembers within the virtual Combat Systems Center can interact with applications and data just like they can when onboard an actual submarine, because the software is able to simultaneously run the applications that are available within a submarine combat center. NUWC will also test the reusability of its extensive set of mission training scenarios by using [Teleplace]' capability to easily integrate pre-existing live and simulated data sources. In addition, [Teleplace] enabled NUWC to get up and running rapidly, because it was able to import and reuse existing 3D models of equipment and consoles, rather than having to re-create them.
"I am excited at the potential virtual worlds technology brings to changing the way we practice engineering," said Douglas Maxwell, Metaverse Exploration Project technical lead at NUWC. "I see a viable future where ship designers, the Navy fleet, and scientists can meet in the same virtual space to collaboratively evaluate platform designs and enact changes in real time."
"We are thrilled that [Teleplace] is providing advanced training and testing technologies to the Navy," said Greg Nuyens, CEO of Teleplace. "NUWC's use of [Teleplace] in its Combat Systems Center is another great example of how virtual application collaboration solutions can provide 'real world' training and testing that is efficient and cost-effective."
[Teleplace] are online workspaces with all the tools, data and interactivity that people need to explore ideas, resolve issues, track progress and be more productive. Easy to set up, highly participatory, always available and secure, [Teleplace] provides a spatial context that fosters new levels of communication, creativity, problem solving and efficiency. For more information about Teleplace, visit www.teleplace.com.
About NUWC
The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) is the Navy's full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support center for submarines, autonomous underwater systems, and offensive and defensive weapons systems associated with undersea warfare. The Warfare Center seeks to provide its customers with the highest quality technologies, products, and services at the best value to ensure the Nation's continuing superiority in undersea warfare. There are two major divisions of this Warfare Center Division Newport located in Newport, Rhode Island, and Division Keyport located in Keyport, Washington. In addition to its two main sites at Newport and Keyport, NUWC has several detachments and field activities geographically spread across North America and the Pacific Basin: from Andros Island, Bahamas, to Lualualei, Hawaii, and from San Diego, California, to Nanoose, British Columbia.
About [Teleplace]
Teleplace, Inc. creates application collaboration solutions to help enterprises manage data-intensive projects and operations across multiple locations. [Teleplace] is a secure virtual workspace that combines voice, video and chat communications with multi-application and document sharing, enabling more efficient workflows among distributed teams, suppliers, and customers. [Teleplace] provides application collaboration solutions to over one hundred Global 500 and mid-size customers, including leading firms in the energy, semiconductor, education, manufacturing, financial, healthcare and government sectors.
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