Installation Deployment Officer (IDO) Training Simulation

The Installation Deployment Officer (IDO) Training Sim is a real-time, conversation-based simulator revolving around the people management and swift decision-making challenges experienced as a day in the life of a USAF Installation Deployment Officer. The IDO Sim is built to be played in a classroom environment as a capstone exercise. It can played either in offline mode or as a multiplayer networked system, which allows each student (client) to progress at their own pace and experience in unique training situations (in the form of scenario branches and sequels), while the instructor console (server) allows the facilitator to view each student’s progress and modify difficulty on the fly. The game scenario combines periods of task overload with ‘dead time’ for the student, adding additional events and outcomes, enhancing variety, and challenging their decision making skills and problem solving. While most of the activity takes place in the Deployment Control Center (DCC), the player can also travel to additional environments around the base, as well as observe live security camera feeds of those environments. There is also an extensive after action review interface that shows all scenario events and player actions (or inactions) on a timeline that can be reviewed after the scenario is complete.