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A Social and Cultural Analysis and Learning Environment for Urban Pre- and Post-Conflict Operations

SCALE-UP™ multiplies force effectiveness with a training and analysis environment for exploring social and cultural interactions relevant to pre- and post-conflict operations in urban environments.

Pre- and Post-Conflict Operactions

Realistic, immersive, location-specific training for cultural and social interactions via virtual missions:

• Execute operations with fewer casualties.
• Reduce staffing levels.

Mission Planning

Interactive analysis of pre- and post-conflict campaigns via simulation of large, socially networked populations:

• Deploy troops to the right situations with the right plan.
• Anticipate and intervene before conflict spreads.

Modeling and Simulation

Interoperability and comparability for human behavior models via a common simulation testbed:

• Faster, cheaper development and updates to training systems.
• Train more people with fewer resources.

People Engines

More intelligence, more understanding:

• Model the effect of emotions, stress, personal history, and individual value systems on decisions and actions.
• Model the social and cultural interactions driving information and influence propagation.

Simulation Architecture

A composition framework for human behavior models:

• Dynamic aggregation of synthetic entities to support fidelity on demand for large-scale simulations.
• Include off-stage interactions between synthetic entities to simulate long-term effects.
• Support tracing causality through information visualization.

Virtual World Interface

Leveraging game technology:

• Support both tactical and strategic level interactions.
• Render and express non-verbal communication.

Social interrelationships can be complex and difficult to discern, making post-conflict operations problematic. (Underlying photo by Spc. Jerry T. Combes, U.S. Army.)