**Note - Military Games

Note: This list does not include the many COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) games treating various aspects of warfighting. Only included are custom games and "mods" paid for directly by the US Military.

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2003-09-16 10:16:06 |

America's Army - Operations

Created by the MOVES institute at the Naval Postgraduate School, America's Army - Operations is an Army Recruiting game, consisting of a squad-based first-person shooter game which includes basic training, and an Army career game "soldiers." The game was launched in June, 2002. There are currently over 1.3 million registered users, with over 800,000 having completed basic training, and 500,000-600,000 mission played per day.

URL: www.americasarmy.com

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2003-09-06 14:18:56 |

Anti-Terrorism Force Protection

Created by Will Interactive, Anti-Terrorism Force Protection is an interactive training program to train commanders to make decisions related to their command's anti-terrorism posture. The program's four parts include 1. CONUS Installation Command, 2. Deployed Ground Command, 3. Deployed Air Command and 4. Deployed Naval Command.

URL: willinteractive

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2003-09-12 14:24:21 |

Army Research Lab - Trainer for X-Box (Military)

Army Research Lab Trainer for X-Box

A prototype created by Breakaway games, Army Research Lab Traineris a game for the X-Box console that uses satellite data to create a 3D environment.

URL: Breakaway

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2003-09-12 14:30:21 |

Battle Command 2010 (BC2010) (Military)

Battle Command 2010 (BC-2010)

Created by MÄK Technologies, BC-2010 is designed to support Army battalion and brigade commands and their staff officers in preparing operation orders, the game is a military tactical trainer that allows commanders and their staff officers to practice their planning and execution skills within a simulated environment. Being used at Ft. Leavenworth, Ft. Knox, the USMA, the 35th infantry division National Guard, and has been field tested in the 1st Infantry Division in Europe.

URL: MÄK

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2003-09-12 14:55:56 |

Bottom Gun (Military)

Bottom Gun

Created by NAWCTSD in Orlando, Bottom Gun turns standard periscope training into a game which allows the trainee to fire missles based on thier periscope readings, and see how accurate they were.

URL: NAWCTSD

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2003-09-12 14:50:50 |

Close Combat marines (Military)

Close Combat Marines

An internally created mod, based on the Close Combat engine created by Atomic Games, Close Combat Marines is used by the Marine Corps in its Infantry Cognitive Skills Labs.

URL: Atomic

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2003-09-12 14:33:00 |

Critical Leadership Analysis System (CLAS) (Military)

Critical Leadership Analysis System (CLAS)

Created by the Institute for Creative Technologies at USC (ICT) for the Army Research Center CLAS is an experimental game designed to help soldiers "think like a commander." Players watch an incident unfold in a video and can then question the participants to determine why things happened as they did.

URL: Institute for Creative Technologies

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2003-09-12 14:35:25 |

DARWARS (Military)

DARWARS - The DARPA Training Superiority Program

Not a game, but a DARPA project applying persistent massivly multiplayer online gaming principles to training. The goal of the initial three-year project is to start a paradigm shift in military training by providing a new kind of cognitive training experience for units and individuals based on continuously available wars. The program has two key areas: 1. scalable Last-Meter Training Systems (LMTS) that will train judgment and cognitive performance under stress . 2. A DARWARS Architecture to populate with, and link stand-alone LMT systems, combining real-time generation, maintenance, updating, and modification of the training war scenario. The DARWARS Program is under the direction of Dr. Ralph Chatham.

URL: DARWARS, DARPA

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2003-09-12 14:56:59 |

Electro-Adventure (Military)

Electro-Adventure

Electro Adventure is a game created by Dr. Henry Halff for the Navy in 1991 to teach the basics of electricity and electronics to avionics technicians.

URL: None

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2003-09-12 14:58:09 |