By Stephanie Kanowitz
Dec 23, 2020
The Defense Innovation Unit and Google Cloud have entered into an agreement with the Air Force to modernize pilot training.
Through the artificial intelligence-driven Joint Immersive Training System (JTS), the 19
th Air Force, Air Education and Training Command, will use off-the-shelf equipment such as virtual reality headsets, joysticks, throttles, rubber pedal controls and video gaming chairs to build training devices that can be deployed to service members worldwide.
Already in use at Randolph and Vance Air Force bases with student pilots, the system aims to overcome three main limitations with current training, Eric Frahm, the DIU program manager on the effort, wrote in emailed responses to GCN.