April 2015 Tomorrow is Team Orlando Take Your Daughters & Sons to Work Day Team Orlando’s Military Services present “Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work Day” on April 23. With a full day of planned activities including photo ops, “Scientist for a Day,” and “Hooah, Hooyah and Oorah: A Word from the Leaders,” it’s sure to be a great day for all involved! Tomorrow is also a Food Truck Day, presented by the CMWRA! The trucks will be serving from 11am to 1:30pm and the various food trucks will be listed on the “unofficial board.”
DoD Human Factors Engineering Technical Advisory Meeting May 4-8 By CDR Henry L. Phillips IV, MSC, USN, PhD, NAWCTSD | 2015 DoD HEF TAG Chair
The Department of Defense Human Factors Engineering Technical Advisory Group (DoD HFE TAG) will hold its 69th meeting, themed “The Relationship of Training Requirements and Technology to Mission-Level Capabilities,” at Naval Support Activity Orlando in the UCF Partnership II and III buildings, May 4 – 8. The event is hosted by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Research and Engineering) Human Performance, Training, and HFE TAG proponent, Biosystems Director, Dr. Patrick Mason.
SGS&C makes student and international entries the focus for 2009 By Dolly Rairigh Glass
With three years behind them, the Serious Games Showcase & Challenge IPT didn’t have any major changes to implement for 2009, and instead focused on increasing both the number of student entries and international entries. “More and more the word continued to spread to potential submission candidates that this wasn’t a flash in the pan kind of event,” said Kent Gritton, co-founder and current Executive Committee member for SGS&C. “The Serious Games Showcase & Challenge was an event they could count on from year to year.”
NCS Modeling and Simulation Hall of Fame Induction in May By Dolly Rairigh Glass
After kicking off the inaugural ceremony last year, National Center for Simulation (NCS) announced that May 12 will be this year’s Modeling and Simulation Hall of Fame ceremony at the Orange County Convention Center. The NCS Board of Directors selected four individuals who will be included in the 2015 induction ceremony, three of whom having personal experience and relationships with Team Orlando.
ADL Initiative xAPI Design Cohort meeting April 23 & April 30 3 p.m. Register ADL Initiative xAPI Design Cohort meeting May 7, May 14, May 21 & May 28 3 p.m. Register PEO STRI & PM TRASYS PALT May 12 Partnership 3, Room 321 A&B 9 am to 9:45 am NAWCTSD PALT May 12 Partnership 3, Room 321 A&B 1:30 pm to 3 pm NCS Modeling & Simulation Hall of Fame Induction May 12 Orange County Convention Center South Concourse 6:30 p.m. ADL Initiative xAPI Design Cohort meeting June 4, June 11, June 18 & June 25 3 p.m. Register Training and Simulation Industry Symposium (TSIS) June 17-18 Rosen Centre Hotel More info AUSA Army Birthday Ball June 20, 2015 6:30pm to 11:30pm More info PEO STRI & PM TRASYS PALT July 14 Partnership 3, Room 321 A&B 9 am to 9:45 am NAWCTSD PALT July 14 Partnership 3, Room 321 A&B 1:30 pm to 3 pm PEO STRI & PM TRASYS PALT Aug 11 Partnership 3, Room 321 A&B 9 am to 9:45 am PEO STRI & PM TRASYS PALT Sept 15 NAWCTSD PALT Sept 15
Chief of Naval Operations visits NAWCTSD Courtesy of NAWCTSD Public Affairs
Capt. Wes Naylor, commanding officer of the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (right) greets Adm. Jonathan Greenert on March 31 at the beginning of his visit to NAWCTSD. During his visit, the CNO experienced a sample of the modern training techniques being developed at the Navy’s only warfare center dedicated entirely toward delivering training systems to the fleet. He also had the opportunity to meet with several leaders of organizations that have ongoing relationships with NAWCTSD and the other military modeling and simulation agencies based in the Central Florida Research Park.
CFNL Navy Birthday Ball Oct. 3 PEO STRI & PM TRASYS PALT Oct 6 PEO STRI & PM TRASYS PALT Nov 3 NAWCTSD PALT Nov 3 MARINE CORPS Birthday Ball Nov (TBD) I/ITSEC
UCF relationship with US Military dates back to 1980’s
Nov. 30-Dec 3
By Adam Rhodes, Central Florida Future | Reprinted with permission
UCF is “America’s Partnership University,” and one of its major partners just so happens to be the U.S. Military. UCF President John C. Hitt recently signed a collaborative agreement with the Navy, which included lab and facilities sharing as well as student internship opportunities, among other benefits, and Research Park — adjacent to campus — has a strong military presence. UCF and the military, it seems, have quite a history, but just how far back does it go? Starting with the military’s proximity to UCF’s campus, that was not always the case.
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ADL Co-Lab holds 2-day summit on cmi5 cmi5, a soon-to-be standard which is also conformant to the Experience API (xAPI), was the focus of a 2-day summit on April 15 and 16. The meeting was hosted by the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative Co-Lab.
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