Adversaries with Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high yield Explosive (CBRNE) capabilities will be involved in future multi-domain operations, potentially leading to CBRNE-contested combat conditions. As a result, it is important that every NATO warfighter have the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) required to identify, protect, treat, report, and temporize CBRNE threats in contested, fast-paced combat scenarios with limited time. Because CBRNE occurrences are rare but catastrophic, maintaining CBRNE medical support KSAs necessitates ongoing, regular training. Accordingly, SimX partnered with the United States Air Force (USAF) to create a virtual CBRNE training curriculum. Utilizing a cross-functional team of medical simulation and virtual reality (VR) subject matter experts, SimX formed a working group with members of the USAF Special Operations Command. This group identified training gaps suitable for VR simulation, established learning objectives and requisite KSAs, and developed a simulation curriculum for training. Across the curriculum, the group is working to replicate Hazardous Material (HAZMAT) environments and techniques, tactics, and protocols (TTPs) required for CBRNE response. For the curricular case scenarios, the group met virtually to determine the specific case topics and then through an iterative process defined granular case details and flow.
@inproceedings{Barrie2023itec,
author = {Barrie, M. G. and Patel, N. and Weiss, T. L. and Poppe, M. and Polson, J. S. and Dorsch, J. R. and Ribeira, R. J. and Sarma, K. V.},
booktitle = {International Training Technology Exhibition and Conference (IT2EC)},
title = {{Maintaining CBRNE Medical Readiness with VR}},
year = {2023},
}