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Immersive Multi-Domain Decision-Making Trainer for Degraded Communication Environments

Ministry of Defence (MoD)

Ideas submitted
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Deadline
5 October 2026
Category
Software
Theme
Smart Automation

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IoT / EmbeddedAR / VR / 3D

Background: Contemporary conflicts have repeatedly demonstrated that electronic warfare and cyber disruption degrade communications and situational awareness at precisely the moment junior and mid-level commanders must make time-critical decisions. Existing training formats (TEWTs, command post exercise) largely assume complete and reliable information flow. Detailed Description: An AR/VR or web-based tool is required that places small-team and sub-unit commanders in multi-domain scenarios (land-air-cyber-EW) where information feeds are deliberately incomplete, delayed, or contradictory, training decision-making under uncertainty rather than under ideal conditions. Expected Solution/ Outcomes: Scenario engine capable of injecting communication degradation (delay, dropout, conflicting reports) mid-exercise. Multiplayer capability for team - level coordination under degraded information. Instructor dashboard to configure scenario variables and monitor trainee decisions in real time. Exportable AAR reports capturing individual and team decision timelines and rationale.

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as of 1 Oct
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What a jury will ask about this

  1. 01“Who actually faces this problem today?”

    What works: Naming one real person and what they do instead right now. Reading the statement back is not an answer, they already read it.

  2. 02“This already exists. Why yours?”

    What works: That existing tools are consumer products. Yours is built for the ministry, works offline, in the local language, on official data.

  3. 03“Then why has nobody solved it yet?”

    What works: The real blocker. No connectivity, no incentive, nobody owns the data. You only know this if you read the ministry's own reports.

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