4GD (Past Sponsor)

4GD are redefining the future of immersive urban training. At the heart of this is the drive to achieve operational excellence through immersive, realistic and intelligent urban training environments, specifically the 4GD SmartFacility. The 4GD SmartFacility® integrates the physical and synthetic worlds into a single urban training environment. It is an instrumented, reconfigurable, non-ballistic urban environment which uses synthetic reality to introduce complex combined arms elements within the virtual sub-system Acies®.

The Acies® simulation is driven by another SmartFacility® sub-system, Ecfect_OS®. Ecfect_OS® provides objective, real-time data for tactical performance analysis and to drive the simulation. Together these systems allow the replication of scale by linking multiple facilities in the synthetic world, even if they are geographically dislocated, as well as the inclusion of combined arms simulators.

Keeping close combat in the physical and complex &, expensive combined arms in the synthetic, opens significant opportunities for contemporary multi-domain urban operations. For example with larger formation training, units could use “lived in” conurbations for the physical clearance while practising intensive combined arms in the synthetic.

Our vision is that by blending virtual and physical environments we increase the quality of training and deliver high-tech systems that allow you to: make targeted improvement to your team and individual performance; enhance your ability to respond to various complex situations; and build battle winning performance. All whilst ensuring training is as true to operations as possible and that you train how you fight.

We are already achieving this mission and optimising performance in elite units in both the USA & UK.