March 25^th, 2004 (12:00am) - ProSIM Company announced today that its hit wargame, Armored Task Force, was selected as the high-fidelity tactical simulation engine for a training system called V-CTC (Virtual Combat Training Center), being developed by Teknowledge Corporation as part of a DARPA Phase II Small Business Innovation Research project.

The V-CTC seeks to combine an ultra-realistic combined arms, combat simulation and an intelligent tutoring system to provide an engaging, realistic, and rich training experience for combat leaders. ProSIM Company’s title, Armored Task Force, will be the tutor’s combat simulation engine. It will provide an instrumented battlefield for the tutor to observe and monitor trainee performance in real-time mission scenarios. The developer is currently hard at work, making small modifications to the system to allow it to communicate with Teknowledge’s intelligent tutoring system.

Pat Proctor, President of ProSIM Company, said, "We are very excited about the opportunity to participate in this project. We feel very strongly that our simulations are the most realistic modern combat simulations commercially available. They have been used, informally, by army units across the globe to train staff planning and execution for years. We are eager to see the full training potential of Armored Task Force realized."

Dr. Michelle Sams, Teknowledge’s Training Systems Program Manager, explained more about the project’s overall goal: "The DoD’s Combat Training Centers (CTCs) provide invaluable live training opportunities, however these training experiences are limited due to their availability and expense. Providing readily available, relevant, and realistic training prior to and subsequent to CTC rotations can significantly enhance the benefits of these live training experiences. We are developing technology that will improve this training via an intelligent tutor in a simulated environment."