After-action review (AAR) has been used extensively for debriefing in post-operation or post-training sessions. The military heavily relies on AARs for reviews.

Training for performing proper inspection and maintenance procedures is of utmost importance. The various inspection and maintenance procedures often include a large number of elements that are quite complex. The Air Force, Navy, and Army could only conduct their operations successfully if they could rely on their maintenance teams. Yet, a literature review failed to identify works about utilizing AAR for maintenance functions. The authors developed an immersive VR simulation framework titled MVE-VR for conducting Level VI inspections of radiological shipments, where Motor Vehicle Law Enforcement officers can get trained to inspect vehicles transporting radioactive material. A proper Level VI inspection could last 45-90 minutes and include a few hundred inspections. The extensive efforts associated with these inspection procedures make capturing and reviewing inspection violations difficult. The MVE-VR framework consists of a simulation application and a separate report application that captures 1) all inspection items during the training and 2) the simulation experience in the VR. The report application is designed to segmentize the VR simulation experience (the Post-simulation AAR) to deliver replays of the experiences at the relevant simulation point on a desktop. The research team hypothesizes that MVE-VR facilitates an enhanced interactive learning engagement that will yield superior results compared to a simple post-inspection report that does not include the Post-simulation AAR and the non-simulated report applications used currently. Experiments will begin soon. Why is this of interest to the community? While significant efforts are devoted to developing extended reality applications for maintenance, the merit of a segmentized AAR application for inspections and maintenance has yet to be examined. The proposed framework has the potential to create a dent in developing teams that are well-trained to handle complex maintenance operations.

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Ashwin Jacob