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Modeling - Simulation - Training for Human Performance Innovation

INNOVATE - COLLABORATE - ACCELERATE

Navy Surface Warfare Combat Training Continuum Prize Challenge Demo Day

September 26th, 1:00 PM EDT

 

The Central Florida Tech Grove, in partnership with the Naval Surface Warfare Center, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD), and the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN), executed a prize challenge to identify solutions to a critical barrier in assessing training effectiveness and performance assessments for Watchstander training onboard ships. Specifically, the challenge was to identify innovative solutions that digitally and automatically collect training-relevant data and metadata from ship Combat System Training Teams (CSTTs) at the unit, team, and individual level for the Tactical Action Officers (TAOs) based on Training & Readiness Matrix Tasks. 

 

Solutions submitted by participants were evaluated by subject matter experts from the Navy.  Semi-finalists were selected to demo their solutions on September 26 during a virtual Demo Day. Three finalists will be selected based on the evaluation of their presentations and demonstrations during the Demo Day. The top performing participant will be awarded $60,000 in prize money with $45,000 and $30,000 awards to the second and third-ranked participants. 

 

The Semi-Finalists Presenting:

2Circle, Inc.
4C North America
Adaptive Immersion
Aptima
Eduworks Corp
NightHawk Cyber
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Summer Annihilation Capture the Flag Cyber Competition

September 19th/20th, 9:00 AM EDT

 

The Central Florida Tech Grove is hosting a Cyber Security Capture the Flag competition at the Tech Grove and online. Come see Students participate! This competition will be held 09/19 starting at 0800 where everyone competing must either be in person or logged into the event. The range will go live at 0900 on 09/19 and be shut down at 1700. We will start back up at 0800 09/20 and cease at 1700. If you are here in person at The Tech Grove, there will be a Smash Brothers competition going on at the same time as the CTF event on Thursday and Friday. You must be here on Thursday in order to register for the Smash Brothers competition. We encourage teams for the event, but individuals may compete as well. 

The focus of this event will be for the Air Force, Army, Navy, and Space Force to identify key talent for their organizations, have fun, and bragging rights as the winner of our inaugural CTF Cyber Competition at The Tech Grove. This is planned to be an annual event hosted by The Tech Grove for its government customers. 

The Live Fire Range will be provided by Cyberbit. Cyberbit is a cybersecurity talent management platform that helps attract, train, and retain the workforce of the future. We help quantify and improve cybersecurity readiness at scale. The Cyberbit platform now delivers 500,000 sessions globally and has become the go-to skill development and training platform for SOC teams. Our customers include the world’s largest financial institutions, health care, consulting firms, retailers, MSSPs, governments and military organizations. Leading academic institutions and coding academies use Cyberbit to offer hands-on cybersecurity programs that produce job-ready graduates. Please visit their website @ cyberbit.com or email dylan.haas@cyberbit.com for cyberbit-related questions.

 

 

 

 

Real Experiences, Real Opportunities, Real Results

Try out a flight simulator? Help develop a serious game? Challenge your cyber defense skills? Have a face-to-face conversation with the Commanding Officer of the local Navy command? Meet your next intern or part-time employee? You can do all of that and more at Tech Grove.

Contact us to learn more about how you can get involved!

The Nation’s Modeling, Simulation, and Training Innovation Center

The United States Department of Defense (DOD) depends on non-traditional training solutions built with cutting-edge technologies created by innovators like you. However, getting your novel solution to market — and to the DOD for military readiness training — is challenging.

 

That’s where Central Florida Tech Grove comes in.

 

INNOVATION, COLLABORATION, AND ACCELERATION

 

At Tech Grove, we facilitate modeling, simulation, and training (MS&T) advances with:

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Innovation

We offer resources to inspire you, connecting you to the people and organizations at the forefront of the defense modeling and simulation industry.

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Collaboration

We help you discover collaboration opportunities with Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine, and Space Force modeling, simulation, and training organizations.

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Acceleration

We assist you with business development assistance and federal funding to get your innovation to market in the hands that need it.

Our Mission for Enhancing DOD Human Performance

Grow the Defense Industry Base

We collaborate with industry, academia, small business, and government from across the nation to expand the defense industry base. We offer an expansive calendar of events, education and support, and referrals to ecosystem support organizations ranging from industry associations to competitive research as well as development programs.

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Facilitate MS&T Technology Transfers

We facilitate technology transfers between small businesses, universities, and government labs. We conduct joint activities, spinning out federally developed technology to support innovation and spinning in solutions from industry and academia to solve complex government human performance challenges.

Solve Complex Military Training Challenges

We facilitate the innovation of enhanced human performance training solutions to apply to the gaps and problems shared by our military customers. Through prize challenges, tech scans, game jams, and other initiatives, industry, government, and academia work together to create and accelerate solutions.

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Unique Ways To Solve Military Human Performance Problems

Tech Grove is where we uncover unique ways to solve some of the modeling, simulation, and training industry’s toughest problems. Our innovators have moved well beyond the use of basic virtual reality for training to deliver technology-based human performance training. Right now we’re focused on these areas:
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LVC-STE Adoption

Expanding the adoption of Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) and Military Synthetic Training Environment (STE) tools and solutions.

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Artificial Intelligence

Uncovering and adapting Artificial Intelligence (AI) to unlock human-machine interaction in AI military training.

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XR Technology

Improving human performance using advanced extended reality for training (XRT) technology, 5G networking, and integration.

Interested in Modeling, Simulation, and Training?

Connect, Collaborate With Leaders, and More

Tech Grove offers many resources to help you engage in the defense modeling, simulation, and training industry.

 

We’re located in the heart of Orlando’s MetaCenter — a vast interconnected network of organizations leading technology innovations — where we host the MetaGrove, a digital twin of our operations.

 

Discover how to connect for discussions around everything from LVC training to… well, there are no limits to innovation!

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Join us for our next event!

Come accelerate your business with a strategic business consultation from the Florida SBDC at Central Florida Tech Grove

 

APEX at the Grove August 29th 9AM - 12PM. 

 

 

The FSBDC at UCF’s Government Contracting Services provides businesses with:                                           
• Assistance in competing for government contracts and other small purchases                                                       
• Assistance with Small Disadvantaged Business and Minority Business Enterprise certification applications         
• Assistance with proposals and marketing                                       
• Training on government procurement topics

 

Real Experiences, Real Opportunities, Real Results

Want to try out a flight simulator, help develop a serious game, challenge your cyber defense skills, or experience virtual reality for training?

 

Interested in having a face-to-face conversation with the Commanding Officer of the local Navy command or meeting your next intern or part-time employee?

 

You can do all of that and more at Tech Grove. Contact us to discover how you can get involved!

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Share your Capabilities

Do you have an innovative idea or capability that could be a solution for challenges facing our national defense partners? Getting novel, non-traditional, human performance solutions in front of potential users, customers and collaborators can be a long and arduous process. Until now. Tell us about your innovation so we can tell others.

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Why Orlando is the Metacenter

Orlando has for decades been the epicenter of innovation in modeling, simulation, and training for our nation’s military. As a result, it is also the home of a vast interconnected network of organizations leading innovations in game development, artificial intelligence, multi-dimensional modeling, optics, sensors, and data science.

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Share your innovations with Team Orlando

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Tech Grove and the National Security Innovation Network have created a Team Orlando platform to allow you to respond to specific problem statements as well as submit information about your products, services, and capabilities.

Join the TOPS community today, check out the problems in our Problem Grove, submit your capabilities, and engage with us!

 

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Don’t Hesitate...Join the Alliance!

We'd love for you to get connected with us and join our Tech Grove Innovation Growers Alliance!  By giving us your contact information, you will receive our newsletter, get announcements about opportunities, events, and more.  Also go to our "Share Your Capabilities" portal and provide us your information so we will know about all the ways you can help us solve problems!

In the heart of Research Park and adjacent to the UCF main campus, our physical facility is just 20 minutes from both Orlando and Sanford International Airports and minutes from hotels and dining. But we are very virtual and you can participate in many of our opportunities no matter where you are!