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CyberOperations, Automation and Simulation Training (COAST) Experience
Customer: HQ Air Force Communications Agency
(AFCA)
Type of Service: SIMTEX
These network simulators allow Air Force network professionals the opportunity to practice their classroom learning in a realistic environment that does not impact any operational network. The simulators are not a replication of fielded Air Force network equipment, but like aircraft simulators, they emulate a typical AF base network environment. Based on a "flight simulator" concept, the SIMTEX Network provides crew forces the "look and feel" of the same computer network environment they manage and defend day-to-day. Separated from the operational network through a virtual private network, the SIMTEX Network provides a standard platform to conduct training, evaluate tactics, and perform individual and crew standardization/evaluation at four levels.
Individual Crew Position Training and Certification. These are locally organized training and evaluation events that focus on an individual’s position-specific education and application of knowledge in a realistic network environment. Local units develop, organize, and conduct this training and may use the simulators to conduct local standardization and evaluation certifications for specific crew positions.
Crew Force Training and Certification – locally organized training and evaluation event that focusing on integrated crew operations rather than an individual education.
Simulator Training Exercise (SIMTEX) – training event designed to train and exercise crew operations, command and control communications, problem mitigation, graduated responses, and operational reporting in a realistic network “no-risk” environment; also provides crew members the opportunity to try innovative approaches to a situation when known procedures do not appear to work or a better approach seems more effective.
Combat Training Exercise (CTX) – annual exercise involving multiple organizations across the Air Force and Joint Services; enable Air Force-wide and Joint Service-wide evaluation of readiness, training, equipment, reporting, tactics, and graduated responses.
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