Overview

The Rapid Integration & Development Environment (RIDE) is a simulation environment that unites many DoD simulation efforts to provide an accelerated development platform and prototyping sandbox that will provide direct benefit to the Army’s Synthetic Training Environment (STE) as well as the larger DoD simulation communities.

RIDE combines a range of commonly used simulation features in a drag-and-drop development environment, including One World Terrain, NPC and vehicle placement, and AI behaviors.

RIDE is being developed at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), a non-profit University Affiliated Research Center. RIDE has been made possible by funding from the Army Cross Functional Teams (CFT) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR).

Link: ride.ict.usc.edu

 

Benefits

 
 

Science & Technology

Save Time & Money by jump-starting research initiatives – days becomes hours, months become weeks.

  • Integrate and test efforts in a unified environment.

  • Unified Framework for TRL Levels, Integration potential, and metrics.

  • Shared code base, open and beneficial to all users.

  • Create reusable frameworks for testing and research.

Industry

Utilize, evaluate, and inform capabilities that are not currently supported or beyond SOW.

  • Enables continued iterations and testing independent of S&T or Vendor progress.

  • Assists in defining foundational components and verifying systems during dev process.

Government

Leverage existing investments and ensure re-use of capabilities.

  • Fuse disparate code for similar functionalities to reduce support costs.

  • Increase automation and reduce resources necessary for development.

  • Simplify path to transition by maintaining RMF and ATO procedures to a single code base.