NAWCTSD

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The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) of the US Navy is located in Orlando, FL in the University of Central Florida's Central Florida Research Park.

The roots of the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) reach back to April 1941 when then-Commander Luis de Florez became head of the new Special Devices Desk in the Engineering Division of the Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics. De Florez championed the use of "synthetic training devices" and urged the Navy to undertake development of such devices to increase readiness. In June, the desk became the Special Devices Section.

Throughout World War II, the Section developed numerous innovative training devices including ones that used motion pictures to train aircraft gunners, a device to train precision bombing, and a kit with which to build model terrains to facilitate operational planning in the field.

The Special Devices Section grew and became the Special Devices Division. In August 1946, the Division, at its newest home at Port Washington, Long Island, NY, was commissioned the Special Devices Center.

As NAWCTSD evolved and grew, it was aligned at various times under several different parent organizations within the Navy. In 1956, it became the Naval Training Device Center. Over a three-year period in the mid-1960s, the Center moved from its Long Island location to Orlando, Florida. In 1985 the then-Naval Training Equipment Center became the Naval Training Systems Center. The Center moved to its present headquarters building near Orlando, named for its founding father de Florez, in 1988. On October 1, 1993, the Naval Training Systems Center became today’s NAWCTSD. The NAWCTSD is a significant component of the Naval Air Systems Command.

Their mission:

• "To be the principal Navy center for research, development, test and evaluation, acquisition and product support of training systems, to provide Interservice coordination and training systems support for the Army and Air Force, and to perform such other functions and tasks as directed by higher authority."

Their vision:

• "To be the supplier of choice for training and human performance solutions to enhance the capability of the Nation's Warfighters."

Official site: http://nawctsd.navair.navy.mil/