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Report: Army to spend $50M on video games
Colleagues,
(This was sent earlier to the Medical Modeling and Simulation Group)
As reported in Washington Business Journal...
The Army is finally getting with the program ...They are getting serious about games!...
The Army plans to spend some $50 million over five years on combat video games to train soldiers, according to a report in Stars and Stripes.
To oversee this investment, the Army created a game-training unit named, as military units often are, with an acronym, PEO-STRI, for “Project Executive Office — Simulation Training and Instrumentation.” This unit will track developments in the video game industry and choose promising products that could be used or modified to train soldiers.
The report said the Army unit also “has an undisclosed additional budget” to spend on a commercial game system to be used by February.
Read on at: http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/11/24/daily24.html?f=et87&ana=e_du
ENJOY!
CC
(This was sent earlier to the Medical Modeling and Simulation Group)
As reported in Washington Business Journal...
The Army is finally getting with the program ...They are getting serious about games!...
The Army plans to spend some $50 million over five years on combat video games to train soldiers, according to a report in Stars and Stripes.
To oversee this investment, the Army created a game-training unit named, as military units often are, with an acronym, PEO-STRI, for “Project Executive Office — Simulation Training and Instrumentation.” This unit will track developments in the video game industry and choose promising products that could be used or modified to train soldiers.
The report said the Army unit also “has an undisclosed additional budget” to spend on a commercial game system to be used by February.
Read on at: http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/11/24/daily24.html?f=et87&ana=e_du
ENJOY!
CC
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