1 THOMAS L. BAPTISTE, Lt Gen, USAF (Ret) President/Executive Director National Center for Simulation (NCS) 3 February 2010 Briefing to Florida Representatives Sponsored By Suzanne Kosmas (D-FL)

2 OVERVIEW About the National Center for Simulation (NCS) Florida’s role in Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Importance of M&S National requirements Impact on Florida’s economy M&S Legislative Initiatives

NATIONAL CENTER FOR SIMULATION (NCS) NATIONAL CENTER FOR SIMULATION (NCS) 501c(3) member organization headquartered in Orlando, FL Approximately 150 U.S. and international members, with a high concentration in Central Florida Provides a link between government, industry and academia to further M&S technology Promotes the transfer of defense M&S technology to various applications: Medical, homeland security, education, transportation and entertainment Supports Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education and workforce development programs

4 SIMULATION Simulations save lives, money and time M&S technologies are used in training, planning, analysis, engineering, test and evaluation Research can be performed using simulation instead of costly and often times damaging live or “real world” events “Almost every soldier or Marine deployed to the Middle East is trained on some kind of system developed in Central Florida.” Orlando Sentinel, Jan. 11, 2009

5 FLORIDA IS THE M&S LEADER M&S is a national “Critical Technology” with its epicenter in Florida Florida has M&S academic programs in high schools, an Associate’s Degree at Daytona State College (DSC) and Doctoral Program at UCF Florida University incubators nurture M&S start-up companies Over 55,000 jobs in Florida support the M&S industry

MAJOR US CENTERS OF M&S

M&S CAUCUS MEMBERS Florida: Jeff Miller Suzanne Kosmas California: Ken Calvert Susan Davis MD: C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger NY: Maurice Hinchey TN: Zach Wamp SC: Joe Wilson IL: Bill Foster NC: Virginia Foxx GA: Phil Gingrey AL: Robert Aderholt CO: Doug Lamborn UT: Jim Matheson Virginia: Randy Forbes, Co-Chair Bobby Scott Rob Wittman Glenn Nye Texas: Solomon Ortiz, Co-Chair John Carter Mike Conaway Pennsylvania: Todd Russell Platts Joe Sestak Jim Gerlach

8 DOD M&S CENTER OF EXCELLENCE “Team Orlando” includes the services, joint commands, academia and industry >2,500 DOD personnel About $4.5 billion/year in acquisitions PEO-STRI AFAMS PM TRASYS NAWC-TSD NCS ADL Co-Lab JDIF, JFCOM RDECOM -STTC US Coast Guard IST/ UCF

9 FLORIDA CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS

10 FLORIDA MILITARY INSTALLATIONS Approximate numbers of personnel Army 2,982 Navy & Marine Corps 23,223 Air Force 24,526 Coast Guard 4,757 Active Duty Military 50,731 Reserve and National Guard 53,902 Total Personnel 109,390

11 M&S ECONOMIC IMPACT More than 850 Florida Firms Involved in M&S –Employing more than 22,500 Floridians* –Average salary $66,000* $4.5B Impact on Florida Gross State Product* $7.8B Annual Sales Activity* 58,000 Jobs Support M&S* *Based on a sampling/REMI Modeling of 122 M&S Companies in 2008 study funded by Florida High Tech Corridor Council

12 M&S LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVES HR 855-Public Health Services Act Amendment for Medical Simulation NAICS Code for M&S Funding Higher Education Opportunity Act to support M&S in Education HR 487- Naming M&S a “Critical Technology”

13 UPCOMING EVENTS OF INTEREST Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Winter Symposium & Exposition, February 2010 (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) Advanced Initiatives in Medical Simulation (AIMS) Conference, March 2010 (Washington, DC) Training Simulation Industry Symposium, 9-10 June 2010 (Orlando, FL) Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC), June 2010 (Tampa, FL)

14 SUMMARY M&S technologies support the warfighter M&S represents significant economic impact throughout Florida M&S Caucus needs more Florida leadership M&S legislation awaiting authorization and funding

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16 M&S CONTRACTOR BRIEFINGS LOCKHEED MARTIN—JIM CRAIG (Supplier base) NORTHROP GRUMMAN--LEE BARNES (STEM) SAIC--DAVID REES (Spin off)

17 CONTACT INFORMATION Tom Baptiste, Lt Gen, USAF (Ret) President/Executive Director, National Center for Simulation, NCS website: Jim Craig—Lockheed Martin, Lee Barnes—Northrop Grumman, David Rees—SAIC, Briefing prepared: Henry C. Okraski and Associates, Winter Park, FL 407

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20 A community of organizations working together to accomplish their respective missions with a common goal of improving human performance through simulation