Simulated Comms System Connects Warfighters

Advanced Simulation Technology inc. (ASTi) products played a critical role during Bold Quest 2020’s recent, multinational military exercise. Its simulated comms systems provided cohesive voice services that connected warfighters, simulations and civilian staff across the United States and Europe.

Bold Quest provides a venue for experiments, assessments and capability demonstrations in a network-distributed environment. Bold Quest 2020 was focused on making incremental improvements to simulator interoperability in a joint-coalition environment. Further, Joint Staff analysts measured distributed simulators’ effectiveness to improve the performance of warfighters conducting combined, joint-fires operations. Bold Quest also empowered industry and government agencies to demonstrate leading technologies like augmented and virtual reality.

ASTi systems spread throughout Bold Quest’s distributed environment supplied crucial capabilities, such as interoperable voice comms among simulator-based training facilities and centralized exercise-management sites. ASTi also delivered back-channel, administrative comms through private, point-to-point calling; conferencing; intercoms; and text chat. With web-enabled scenarios, administrators could centrally manage comms systems from anywhere on the network.

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ASTi linked voice comms across facilities spanning two continents, including: Distributed Training Operations Center (Iowa Air National Guard, Des Moines, Iowa); 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment-Airborne (U.S. Army, Ft. Campbell, Kentucky); 113 Air Support Operations Squadron (Indiana Air National Guard, Terre Haute, Indiana);14 Air Support Operations Squadron (U.S. Army, Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina); Joint Staff (J7 Joint Force Development, Suffolk, Virginia); Joint Staff (J6 C4 and Cyber, Suffolk, Virginia); Muscatatuck Urban Training Center (Indiana National Guard, Camp Atterbury, Indiana); 919 Special Operations Wing (AF Special Operations Command, Hurlburt Field, Florida); 27 Special Operations Wing (AF Special Operations Command, Cannon AFB, New Mexico); Warrior Preparations Center (Einsiedlerhof Air Station, U.S. Air Force, Germany); and Le centre d'expertise aérienne militaire (CEAM) (Mont-de-Marsan Air Base, France).