Mission
The Common Driver Trainer (CDT) Virtual Product Line (VPL) provides initial and sustainment vehicle driver training simulation to the Soldier at both operational unit and institutional training levels. Available in a fixed configurations.
Description
The Common Driver Trainer (CDT) is a high fidelity, full motion driver trainer conducting basic, intermediate and advanced driver’s training tasks. It maximized common components across multiple variants through a product line approach of utilizing 80 percent common equipment while retaining 20 percent for variant specific components of the CDT system. Current replicated platform is the M1A2 SEPv2 and M1A2 SEP v3 Abrams main Battle Tanks.
The CDT is made up of three main component stations: the Instructor Operator Station (IOS), Student Training Station (STS) and After Action Review/Ancillary Station (AAR/AS).
The software of the CDT recognizes the variant used on the common platform and loads all necessary variant specific scoring, vehicle dynamics and training scenarios needed.
The IOS manages and executes training, utilizes computer aided automated scoring and monitors all actions of the driver in real time.
The STS replicates the form, fit and function of the actual drivers’ station. The STS uses a 6 degree of freedom motion base along with the variant specific vehicle dynamics to replicate actual vehicle handling characteristics.
The AAR/AS captures and stores training information for playback and review of the Soldier’s performance. The AAR/AS also supports other crew related tasks as needed.
Each CDT variant comes with 100 pre-programed training scenarios training in five geo-typical databases and six geo-specific databases. The CDT also allow users to edit and create additional scenarios via the Scenario Generation System.
System Interdependencies
None
Foreign Military Sales
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