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VESSEL Damage Control Trainer

Honors/Awards

National Training and Simulation Association Honors VESSEL Team
The NTSA recognized the VESSEL team for outstanding achievement in modeling and simulation in December 2010.

Training Magazine Honors Raytheon BBN’s VESSEL Damage Control Trainer with Award for Best Practices and Outstanding Initiatives
On February 1, Raytheon BBN Technologies’ VESSEL Damage Control Trainer (DCT), which is being developed under the Navy Services Training Command’s (NSTC) and Office of Naval Research's Virtual Environments for Ship and Shore Experimental Learning (VESSEL) project, was honored with an award for Best Practices and Outstanding Initiatives by Training magazine as part of the publication’s Training Top 125 for 2010 list.

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Engaging, Effective Game-based Training

Raytheon BBN’s Damage Control Trainer (DCT) offers trainees an engaging first-person perspective and a supportive, instructionally rich environment in which they can practice damage control skills, shipboard communication, and shipboard navigation without the costs and risks involved with live training. DCT was developed under the Virtual Environments for Ship and Shore Experiential Learning (VESSEL) project and includes training on flooding control, fire fighting and mass casualty response.

  • Lightweight—DCT runs on existing classroom computers currently in use by Navy recruits.
  • Engaging and Effective—Validation studies show that errors in situational awareness, decision-making and communication are reduced by 50% for recruits who spent only one hour with the trainer.
  • Actively Deployed—VESSEL DCT currently augments the classroom and hands-on instruction for over 40,000 recruits per year at the U.S. Navy's only boot camp, Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, IL.
Blended Instruction and Gaming

Computer games offer a rich technology for delivering engaging training experiences, but care and expertise are required to ensure that the training is effective. DCT has been designed and developed by an interdisciplinary team of experts drawn from fields of instructional design, story development, software development, game design and educational science. DCT provides a guided discovery experience that allows students to explore a virtual ship environment and perform damage control missions while receiving instructionally supportive guidance and feedback within the game. Critical errors have consequences, while correct actions lead to progress in achieving mission goals.