San Diego-based Strategic Operations was awarded a three-year Blank Purchase Agreement by the Naval Health Research Center to support the Simulated Ambulant Technology II Program (SALT II).
The NHRC manages and executes expeditionary operational medical research, development, test and evaluation programs for the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and the Department of Defense. Support for SALT II is to provide Hyper-Realistic simulation services that will allow immersive testing of equipment, verification of practices and medical logistics procedures, and review of combat casualty care related research such as post-traumatic stress disorder. The simulation scenarios will be highly detailed, ambulatory and go beyond capabilities available in a computer environment.
Strategic Operations provides hyper-realistic tactical and medical training simulations, mobile structures, props and equipment for the military using state-of-the-art movie industry special effects, role players, and construction techniques on the lot of Stu Segall Productions in Kearny Mesa. Since 2002, Strategic Operations has provided immersion training support to more than 700,000 military personnel.
"We began calling this type of immersion training Hyper-Realistic and define it as 'Such a high degree of fidelity in the replication of battlefield conditions in a training environment that participants so willingly suspend disbelief that they become totally immersed and eventually stress inoculated,’” said Kit Lavell, executive vice president at Strategic Operations.
The global objective of SALT is to bring NHRC into the 21st century of current technology without incurring the huge investment in facilities and IT infrastructure in order to better perform its mission in support of the wounded, ill and injured warfighter.
