Navy Opens Integrated Air & Missile Defense Trainer in California

The U.S. Navy unveiled its new Combined Integrated Air and Missile Defense Trainer facility on Thursday at Naval Base San Diego in California, DVDIShub.net reported Thursday.

The shore-based trainer enables shipboard operators and tacticians to refine their combat systems expertise in complex settings without the distractions and risks that come with live training.

CIAT contains a sonar room, a mock combat information center, a control room and a debrief room.

The facility also lets trainees and instructors benefit from integrated debriefing functions such as after-action reporting and instructor analysis. 

“Sailors gain the experience of using tactically coded equipment, high fidelity simulation tools and a uniquely integrated debrief capability; all of which are non-existent in shipboard training systems,” said Lt. Cmdr. Reisheid Dixon, officer-in-charge of the Center for Surface Combat Systems in San Diego.

CIAT developers are planning to add a new location at a CSCS detachment in Norfolk, Va., as well as two reconfigurable trainers for combat information center operations at the Aegis Training and Readiness Center in Dahlgren.