OpenSkies Overview

Under the OpenSkies Treaty, the United States and other countries promote open flights over international territory to gather data that is made available to all treaty signatories.

The OpenSkies Virtual Environment Training System, developed by Cybernet with the collaboration of NAWCTSD, JWK International, DMSO, DARPA, STRICOM, and AFRL, seeks to bring the same benefits to the distributed simulation and training community.

The OpenSkies system is a PC based training and simulation software package that brings the military trainer cost effectiveness while maintaining strict compliance with military distributed simulation specifications.

The overview section is divided into the following parts:

• Application
  - What OpenSkies does.
• Needs
  - Why you need OpenSkies.
• Performance
  - How the OpenSkies Training System improves student performance.
• Advantages
  - The advantages of the OpenSkies Training System.
• Uniqueness
  - What's special about OpenSkies.