{"id":63564,"date":"2023-04-13T18:16:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T18:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2023\/04\/13\/us-navy-marines-push-to-make-virtual-training-more-real\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:49:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:49:49","slug":"us-navy-marines-push-to-make-virtual-training-more-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2023\/04\/13\/us-navy-marines-push-to-make-virtual-training-more-real\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy, Marines push to make virtual training more real"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NORFOLK, Va. \u2014 U.S. Navy and Marine Corps leaders are pushing to make Live, Virtual and Constructive training environments more realistic because, they say, lives are at stake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The services already have LVC training systems that go beyond basic simulators for a single pilot or infantryman and connect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tecom.marines.mil\/Units\/Divisions\/Range-and-Training-Programs-Division\/LVC-TE\/\" target=\"_blank\">sailors and Marines at different training centers and ships<\/a>. This allows them to see a complex picture of U.S. and adversary forces, some of which are real and some of which are simulated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now they are trying to speed the integration of more systems into the LVC training environment. The Navy and the Marines say they have the basic backbone in place, with some platforms and systems fully integrated into this network. But they need further integration, so the entire naval force and all the tools at its disposal can train in this LVC environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/information-warfare\/2022\/02\/18\/navy-doesnt-want-to-keep-guessing-whether-its-information-warfare-systems-work\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/CANES.jpg_170e61.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Navy doesn\u2019t want to keep guessing whether its information warfare systems work<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The U.S. Navy is working to mainstream its information warfare systems through crew integration and improved training capabilities.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have to be able to link the ships that are training off the East Coast with an exercise that\u2019s going on in the South China Sea with something unmanned that\u2019s happening in 5th Fleet in Bahrain with some Marine unit that\u2019s flying F-35s in Twentynine Palms,\u201d Commandant of the Marine Corps<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marines.mil\/CM\/Biographies\/Bio-Display\/Article\/2478607\/gen-david-h-berger\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Gen. David Berger<\/a> said this month at the Navy League\u2019s annual Sea Air Space conference in Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have to tie all that together so that the virtual, live, constructive, all aspects of that are all woven together,\u201d he said. \u201dThat\u2019s how we take [training] to another level \u2014 and we\u2019re headed there, but we\u2019ve got to keep the resources behind it or it will fall off, and we can\u2019t let that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a separate panel at the conference, Vice Adm. Scott Conn, the deputy chief of naval operations for warfighting requirements and capabilities, explained why it was so important to put aircraft, surface ships, submarines, cyber capabilities and more all into connected LVC training scenarios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The LVC training environment allows the sailors \u201cto be able to see scenarios you couldn\u2019t show them before, to be able to see things in training before they see it in combat,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause when you see something for the first time, you pause, and when you pause in combat, people die.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conn told Defense News that modern aircraft and weapons can fly longer than the area of some of the largest training ranges. Also, there are some tactics the Navy may not want to practice in real life due to spying concerns, and there are some weapons that would conflict with or endanger commercial air traffic and communications, making LVC the only way to practice them before combat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lagging behind<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The aviation community is lagging behind its surface ship counterparts in being able to tap into the LVC netted environment, according to Adm. Daryl Caudle, the head of U.S. Fleet Forces Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no daylight between Conn at the Pentagon and himself in recognizing the importance of these investments in the LVC training environment, he said, but acquiring the right technology can be very challenging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have done a lot to get ourselves down the road to being able to integrate our training requirements into the ships and aviation and training centers through the LVC suite of technologies, where we can simulate our blue forces, our red forces, practice our concepts of operations [without showing] our adversaries or potential adversaries everything I\u2019m doing,\u201d Caudle told Defense News in a March 30 interview in his Norfolk office. \u201cIt also just allows me to actually test things I cannot do with live: I cannot actually shoot adversary weapons at myself and have that show up on the screens that I want the operators to be able to diagnose, find, fix, track and engage to take that out to protect high value units or themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/2022\/02\/16\/new-gps-simulator-will-support-us-air-force-swarming-munitions-testing\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/201214-F-TH808-1001.jfif_.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">New GPS simulator will support US Air Force swarming munitions testing<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The new simulator will help the Air Force test Golden Horde&#039;s electronic warfare threat protection capabilities.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re very mature shipboard. We\u2019re very mature training center-wise,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not as far along the lines in the aviation space,\u201d meaning pilots can\u2019t be fully looped into larger fleet training events in the LVC training environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNow, aviation has a lot of ways to do synthetic training,\u201d Conn said. \u201cIt\u2019s just not integrated synthetic training.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, whereas the ships in a carrier strike group can all have LVC training scenarios piped into their combat systems \u2014 allowing the ship to see both real and simulated aircraft and missiles in their airspace and rehearse defensive tactics while at sea \u2014 the aircraft in the carrier air wing can\u2019t see the same simulated threats inside their cockpits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you go out to [Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada], they\u2019re doing things like this all the time. If you go down to [Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida], they\u2019re able to do this, too,\u201d Caudle said. \u201cI\u2019m trying to integrate that more closely, and then really make sure that the high-end weapon systems that are coming online, like F-35, are baked into the actual LVC enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6048\" height=\"4024\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6767541.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-117221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6767541.jpg.jpg 6048w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6767541.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6767541.jpg.jpg?resize=768,511 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6767541.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,681 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6767541.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1022 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6767541.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1363 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6048px) 100vw, 6048px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command battle watch captains and current operations officers provide the watchstanders and incident responders on the current status of Large Scale Exercise 2021 (LSE 21) on Aug. 5, 2021. LSE 2021 demonstrates the Navy\u2019s ability to employ precise, lethal, and overwhelming force globally across three naval component commands, five numbered fleets, and 17 time zones. LSE 2021 merges live and synthetic training capabilities to create an intense, robust training environment. (Rebecca Siders\/US Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IW community is also struggling to tap into this larger LVC training environment, Vice Adm. Kelly Aeschbach, the commander of Naval Information Forces, said at the WEST naval conference in February in San Diego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said there are two key problems for the IW community: it\u2019s been hard for engineers to take their weapons systems and integrate them into the LVC environment, or otherwise replicate the weapons\u2019 effects accurately, she said; and the Navy needs to move its classified training to a Top Secret\/Sensitive Compartmented Information level so \u201cwe can really maximize the presentation of the threat, and make everything much more realistic for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aeschbach told reporters at the conference that, on the classification issue, the Navy made progress last year in dealing with the \u201cbureaucratic\u201d challenges of getting approvals to operate at the TS\/SCI level on LVC systems. In fiscal 2025, she said, the Navy wants to test an LVC training event on a ship at sea at this classification level \u2014 which is important because, she said, at the secret level \u201cwe don\u2019t really have much representation in terms of information warfare capability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the engineering challenges, Aeschbach told reporters that last year the IW community ran seven or eight pilot programs to bring existing systems including AN\/SLQ-32 shipboard electronic warfare suite and the Ships Signal Exploitation Equipment Increments E and F into the LVC training environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere have been challenges working backwards on existing capabilities on how you connect them, or replicate what they do independently so it\u2019s like you\u2019re really using them when you\u2019re in the [LVC] system,\u201d she said. \u201cSome of that is straightforward, and some of that turns out to be challenging 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