Military Tests Apps and Other Digital Training Tools

From the New York Times an article about how the Military Tests Apps and Other Digital Training Tools (Andrew Martin and Thomas Lin, May 1, 2011). The article talks about the US military is trying various games including mobile games to train soldiers. The Army help a content for the best smartphone application that generated all sorts of apps including “Army Physical Readiness Training” and “Luther’s Small Catechism”.

The article also talks about VBS2 (Virtual Battlespace 2) which is a “battlefield simulation system.” It allows trainers and even users (in the field) to develop or tweak simulations. Developed by Bohemia Interactive Australia the simulator predicts a world where all army and responders have editable simulation tools for modeling their local environment for training.

Thanks to Steve for this. (I’m now down to 5 more articles from the NYT this month and I’m only on the third day … hmmmm.)