Program Objectives

JETS LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE

LEARNING

JETS provides the transparency and insights to tailor your organization’s training objectives and reduce costs of redundant and ineffective exercises. Performance metrics will better inform budget and resource allocation and will drive the development of new training objectives. Individual(s) learn to advance their skills on their own time through on-demand JETS training resources, resulting in higher assessment throughput and lower operating costs.

IMPACT

Modularity

JETS establishes a digital communication standard that allows clinical Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) simulation devices, and training support equipment, to interact with one other, creating a custom training experience. This modularity stretches from the component level–where individual components (such as clinical simulators, part task trainers, physiology engines, AAR systems and LMS products) can be combined to create a micro system representing a single custom patient or localized training event–to a macro system. In a macro system, JETS enables multiple components and micro systems to interact. In addition to the medical simulation components and micro systems, integration can include tactical-to-strategic combat and logistics simulations. The end result is the virtual replication of multi-echelon training throughout all medical Roles of Care.

Modularity

Flexibility

JETS systems are independent of time and location. An infantry company at Fort Benning, GA, engaged in virtual combat training could have combat casualties from that training digitally transferred to a TCCC serious game used by learners in a combat medic class at Fort Sam Houston, TX. Medics in training could then perform Tactical Field Care, using the TCCC serious game, and call for MEDEVAC from learners going through the flight medic course at Fort Rucker, AL. The digital patient could then instantiate into a human patient simulator where the learners at Fort Rucker would practice en route care in a helicopter training fuselage. The patient could again be digitally transferred to a Role 2, National Guard Brigade Support Medical Company at Camp Blanding, FL, where the medical team initiates Role 2 care using a human patient simulator instantiated with the patient. In parallel with this effort, but as part of the same collective simulation experience, a logistics simulation could feed notional supplies and movement information back into the macro simulation to be used by command and control teams such as a PECC. These events do not all have to be occurring at that same time as patient states can be saved. So, the combat medic class mentioned need not be training simultaneously with the infantry company at Fort Benning. The data from Fort Benning can be stored indefinitely and loaded into the JETS micro system at Fort Sam Houston as needed.

Interoperability

JETS uses a digital protocol called HLA (High Level Architecture). HLA is the current U.S. DoD and NATO standard for networking strategic and tactical simulators. “Digital bridges” exist that allow other networks, such as the Army’s STE (Synthetic Training Environment), to be compatible. This means that units in the various U.S. Services and NATO could train together for Joint operations with their current simulation equipment. Any clinical simulator that can be connected to a network can be made compatible with JETS.

Accountability

The integration of LMS and AAR systems is key functionality of JETS. The protocol that allows dissimilar simulators to share data also allows these systems to share data. This enables leaders and managers to assess ROI at all levels, from individual learner and unit performance to usage rates for the JETS system itself. This will give decision makers and stakeholders the data they need to implement required changes to any aspect of the system, and further assess the impact of those changes.

Cost-effectiveness

Modularity, flexibility, interoperability, and accountability create the conditions for achieving and maintaining cost-effectiveness. Cost savings are realized when any of these conditions are met, but when all are in play, the stage is set for true synergy to occur in virtual training as well as in live, on-the-ground exercises. If individuals and units can maximize virtual training at home station during expensive live-fire training, they can later refine skills best taught and practised in a virtual environment. Cost-effectiveness applies not only to training but also to operational planning, particularly in Joint operations. JETS provides Joint commanders and staff the ability to test and refine procedures and protocols before troops are set in motion.

Enhanced Rigor

JETS aims to make medical training seamless, continuous, and standardized across U.S. and allied nation training. By serving as the connective tissue between various simulation systems, JETS allows for indentification of vulnerability that exists at the inter-service and inter-agency gaps in medical training that allow for medical error. A standardized model of Joint evacuation and transport training mitigates risk to combat casualties by allowing various agencies and caregivers to train as a cohesive chain of care. JETS enables tracking, evaluation and performance for all aspects of patient care training. These innovative capabilities afford COCOM commanders with real-time data to leverage in making decisions that will ultimately save lives on the battlefield.

Caregiver training that incorporates the entire chain of care, including warfighters
Facilitated interagency training exercises
Allows for collection of database of results, observations, found opportunities, and accountability
Utilizes existing equipment and resources
JETS enables the ability to tailor training to unique demands, environments, and scenarios
Optimized format for evaluation and certification
Increases medically capable force

A System of Systems

Brings existing resources into harmony, focusing them to support specific learning objectives
Scalable to support training across team- and unit-level exercises, all the way up to global interagency training simulations

Support at the Seams

Emphasizes efficiency and best practices around patient handoffs
Facilitates better transfer of information from Point of Injury to point of final medical treatment

Platform for Collaboration

Allows instructors and leadership to structure more relevant training objectives and exercises

Measurable Results

Offers dynamic training support that gives learners more realistic expectations for real-world combat
Offers opportunities to reduce the casualties time in care of frontline personnel and experience a lower died-of-wounds rate, while the service at large benefits from a larger medically capable force and heightened strategic relevancy

IMPLEMENTATION

From the individual to the highest positions of leadership, JETS will, at maturity, provide an array of benefits that enhance medical training. JETS can facilitate more efficient and unified training and assessment, and may bring a new sense of insight into the training process.

LEADERSHIP

With the rapid advancement of new technology and ever-shifting dynamics among the global landscape, JETS provides the infrastructure for U.S. forces to stay ready and vigilant in the face of the unknown.

Detailed training performance metrics provide evidence and support for budget assessments and allocation, allowing leadership to make more informed decisions that set medical personnel up for success on the battlefield.

JETS helps increase the level of medical readiness among both medical and non-medical personnel and empowers the medical force to adapt to new patterns and threats quickly.

ORGANIZATIONS

When training mimics battlefield conditions, training metrics more closely aligns with battlefield readiness and anticipated performance. JETS programming aims to implement more dynamic training so that organizations can garner more meaningful feedback with which to tailor future training and eliminate inefficiencies.

The goal is to help organizations prepare medical personnel with more realistic expectations and more relevant skills development.

JETS incorporates existing training protocols with the aim that no training goes to waste. As new tools, practices, and demands emerge, JETS provides the framework on which to plan future training.

JETS may facilitate a higher assessment throughput, which could allow organizations to optimize overhead costs and maintain a low learner-instructor ratio and a high quality of learning.

With access to on-demand learning resources through the JETS online platform, learners can work on keeping their skills sharp and tap new resources to expand the scope of their competencies between training exercises.

INDIVIDUALS

JETS helps learners get more out of their training, making them more capable in less time with more realistic training exercises, thorough performance feedback, and on-demand access to learning materials. Beyond the enhanced rigor of dynamic training exercises, JETS puts training into a more holistic perspective by coordinating training to include caregivers in alternate roles of care and warfighters themselves.

Learners won’t have to train in a vacuum. They’ll coordinate across roles of care and across branches of service to strengthen the chain of care and improve casualty survivability.

With the latest practices, tools, and protocols, accessible on their own time, learners will advance at their own pace.

Assessments will more accurately reflect the wartime readiness of medical personnel, so learners won’t have to wonder if they’re ready for the battlefield.