Marine Corps synthetic training lacks consistent, reusable, and standards-based training materials that are required to maximize the effectiveness of fielded training systems.  Training support packages (TSPs) provide a stand-alone, exportable package that integrates training products, resources, and materials necessary to plan, prepare, execute, and assess operating force training.  Since 2019, the Marine Corps has invested in an effort to develop a standard TSP that enables faster skill acquisition and improved engagement during training.  This led to the development of the TSP Rapid Generation Tool (TRGT).  The TRGT enables the generation of consistent, reusable, standards-based training materials that maximize the effectiveness of fielded training systems while minimizing training preparation time.

The Phase One effort focused on the design, development, and testing of a Virtual Training Support Package model that standardized an exportable and dividable format for delivering training content.  Phase Two followed an agile framework to build, test, and refine TRGT to support collaborative product development.  The TRGT enables exercise designers and simulation professionals to collaborate and expeditiously generate, store, and reuse training content in a repeatable, standardized manner.  The TRGT is built on the Electron framework, that provides a desktop application using modern Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) libraries. The TRGT maintains a local database and allows users to export data in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format.  The Marine Corps is exploiting this technology to crowdsource standardized training materials throughout the fleet.  These materials demonstrate a training relevance that vastly outpaces traditionally contracted efforts by enabling real-time collaboration at the point of need.

This paper discusses the Phase One and Phase Two efforts, beginning with development of a standardized TSP model for describing training in virtual environments and transitions to the design, development, and testing of the TRGT.  The paper concludes with the Marine Corps’ plans to implement TRGT service wide.