The U.S. Army Project Manager Solider Training (PM ST) office is implementing innovative solutions into its core live training enterprise architecture framework to meet its strategic goal of a well-managed product line that is operationally focused, cost effective, relevant, and current. As part of the PM ST continuous monitoring of its product lines, it became evident that the U.S. Army live training exercise tempo, and the increase in the number of trainees required an evolution to the Common Training Instrumentation Architecture (CTIA). As a result, PM ST realigned its modernization roadmap to address the new requirements. CTIA enhanced its Service Oriented Architecture to account for new design elements, using micro services, orchestrated containers for virtualization, coding abstraction from configuration data, continuous integration, and continuous delivery concepts. These enhancements enable PM ST to deploy functionality in small, manageable chunks at a rapid pace, and permits the use of horizontal scalability to match the live exercise’s capacity at the point of need. In order to meet these design elements, PM ST integrated several key Department of Defense (DoD) approved technologies, processes and enablers. These innovative technologies and design elements not only meet the urgent need of the current live training environment and achieve PM ST strategic goals, but also lay the framework for the live training transition into the Synthetic Training Environment. The growing needs of training enablers are present in other DoD environments as indicated by direction in the DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Initiative, and the newly released memorandum “Software Acquisition Pathway Interim Policy and Procedures” by the Under Secretary of Defense. This paper will thoroughly discuss the background, design elements, and the selected technologies, as well as how they will improve the deliveries of new training capabilities, in quality and frequencies, to the warfighter to meet PM ST strategic goals.
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Instrumentation Architecture Evolution to Enable Rapid Delivery of Training Solutions
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