Steve Kessinger

"Because of trying to alleviate the [support requirements for training], the Army would like to have embedded training,in all of its combat systems," said Steve Kessinger, AT&T Government Solutions' OneTESS program manager.
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OneTESS features an ad hoc wireless networking technology, called tiered geocasting, Kessinger said.
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When a potential target receives the electronic bullet, the shooter and target systems link, and messages go back and forth to determine the damage that would have been sustained, Kessinger said.

The operator of a single laptop PC using OneTESS' exercise manager software can control the ad hoc network for a simulation with as many as 5,000 users, Kessinger said.The software can change how certain units in the exercise perform by giving them the capabilities of foreign weapons systems."You can have an M-1 tank act like a [Russian-built] T-80," he said.
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"We've got it down to within a degree of accuracy," Kessinger said, "or less than half a degree if we do local calibration.But that's not as accurate as the trainers want."So until WOM is perfected, OneTESS will combine data from WOM and the older MILES gear, he said.

"Because of trying to alleviate the [support requirements for training], the Army would like to have embedded training…in all of its combat systems," said Steve Kessinger, AT&T Government Solutions' OneTESS program manager.
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OneTESS features an ad hoc wireless networking technology, called tiered geocasting, Kessinger said.
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When a potential target receives the electronic bullet, the shooter and target systems link, and messages go back and forth to determine the damage that would have been sustained, Kessinger said.

The operator of a single laptop PC using OneTESS' exercise manager software can control the ad hoc network for a simulation with as many as 5,000 users, Kessinger said.The software can change how certain units in the exercise perform by giving them the capabilities of foreign weapons systems."You can have an M-1 tank act like a [Russian-built] T-80," he said.

The wireless networking technology behind OneTESS comes largely from existing ad hoc networking research at AT&T Labs.But the Army and AT&T had to develop one major new technology, the Weapons Orientation Module.WOM uses the Earth's magnetic field to sense the direction a OneTESS-equipped weapon, such as a tank's main gun or an M4 carbine, is pointed.

"We've got it down to within a degree of accuracy," Kessinger said, "or less than half a degree if we do local calibration.But that's not as accurate as the trainers want."So until WOM is perfected, OneTESS will combine data from WOM and the older MILES gear, he said.

Steve KessingerAT&Tkessinger@att.com

Stephen Kessinger, formerly a product manager with the Army Materiel Command, joined AT&T Government Solutions, Vienna, Va., to manage its OneTESS contract to develop live battlefield training technology for the Army.Kessinger was acquisition manager for Raytheon Technical Services Co., a live training program for the Army and Air Force.