Prior to the Army Digital Transformation Strategy, "What we lacked in the Army was an integrator. a unity of effort to modernize. That's what the DTS is about," CIO Raj Iyer said.
Brig. Gen. William Glaser, head of the Army's Synthetic Training Environment effort, said his team is "very proud" of One World Terrain because it "really just started off as an idea within the simulations community, but it's expanded out significantly into the operational community."
"If there's one thing DoD and industry have done, it's try a whole bunch of different tools over the last 10 to 12 years. What we have to do now is string them all together to show which ones work best for the capabilities the Army needs today and divest the ones that they don't need," Peraton VP Jennifer Napper said.
"So I think [the concept of integration is] so simple and yet so hard to achieve," Northrop VP Walsmith said. "You need to be able to integrate applications, whether they're your own or someone else's, with ease and simplicity. It is easy to say. It's very hard to engineer."