Humans are a symbiotic species. It’s in our nature to cooperate and build trusted communities for collaborative learning and problem solving. In that spirit, Booz Allen’s Fayetteville team brings together voices and perspectives from across government and business to fuse passion with mission and transform ideas into solutions.
Booz Allen’s work in Fayetteville is largely focused on the military and solutions for the warfighter. In order to set themselves up for success, soldiers need remote access to online training. Helping soldiers get the information they need from their phones and laptops exponentially increases their opportunities to hone their skills in support of the mission.
Enter Blackboard, a digital learning management system Booz Allen uses to facilitate online courses, annual academic curriculum, and interactive training that improves soldiers’ skills in activities like combat vehicle recognition. The technology is free to Army clients, provided in partnership with the Enterprise Lifelong Learning Center and the Army Training Support Center. Blackboard offers Booz Allen and our clients:
Fayetteville, North Carolina is also home to Fort Bragg, “the center of the military universe.” Booz Allen’s team doesn’t just work closely with our clients there—they’re embedded with them. With Booz Allen employees working on training support, analytics, and immersive development, our Army clients can work one-on-one with us to create real-time content and solutions.
Aaron Chase, a Booz Allen learning systems specialist and instructional designer, works closely with the XVIII Airborne Corps. A former Air Force education and training specialist, Aaron uses gaming technology and a virtual training environment called Virtual Battlespace 3 to design and implement online training for land, sea, and air mission rehearsals. The interface may look like a video game, but the real-life applications are invaluable. With 3D modeling, soldiers can safely experiment with virtual replicas of battlefield tools using their desktop computer, tablet, or mobile device.
In Fayetteville, teammates and neighbors can feel like family, even as the small city grows and evolves. Booz Allen’s Fayetteville team is active and influential in overlapping communities throughout the region, from volunteering, to academic mentorship, to professional networking.
The Research Triangle Park Virtual Reality (RTPVR) meetup group unites virtual reality (VR) professionals and enthusiasts from Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill (the three points of the “triangle”) to share insights and use cases around VR, augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) technologies. This group serves as a consortium between government, commercial, academic, and technology partners like Lenovo, Red Hat, NVIDIA, and Epic Games, creator of Fortnite. Involvement with local consortiums such as RTPVR helps Booz Allen employees elevate emerging technology capabilities by staying current on technology trends specific to the local markets.
The Fayetteville team also stays active in the Research Triangle by volunteering with the March of Dimes, lending time to the local United Services Organization (USO) center, and mentoring and speaking at colleges and universities like University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke, and North Carolina State University. This year, the team also gathered to help the local Army Fisher House, which provides holiday season support for military families during times of medical crisis.
The ability of the Fayetteville team to influence and impact lives stretches all the way from military servicemembers to the families of these individuals. And, with active involvement with local community, their work can have a resounding impact felt across neighborhoods and communities in the area.
Between the work and the “why,” between government and industry, you’ll find Booz Allen’s Fayetteville team serving as connector and translator. Well versed in both military and tech, they’re uniting experience and understanding to help Army clients leverage VR and immersive technology for the benefit of the warfighter.
If you’re into immersive, gaming, or instructional design, you’ll find opportunities to thrive and grow within our Fayetteville community.
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