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[Faculty Member(s)] Bryan Vila/ Lois James [Department(s)] Sleep & Performance Research Center Empowering the Strategic Corporal: Training the young warfighters to be socially adept with strangers in any culture U.S. Department of Defense/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) [Research Summary] 
This grant funds WSU's leadership of a project with the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission and Advanced Interactive Systems to develop a high-tech social interaction training module for young warfighters sent on foreign missions. The research team will create the training curriculum; develop metrics to measure trainer and trainee performance; provide training to experienced military and police trainers; and oversee the formation of a mobile training team that will pilot test the curriculum out in the field. Skills testing will be done through interactive, simulated encounter scenarios that will be run in the use-of-force simulation suites inside the simulation laboratory led by Vila as part of the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center.
WSU Spokane: Campus Bulletin - April 18, 2012