Over the last 3 years we have conducted hundreds of demonstrations on the UTM Reality Based Training System to all sectors of the law enforcement community – Local, State and Federal both in the US and internationally. Along with this we have conducted training courses to hundreds of police agencies in Edged Weapons, Tactics, Under Cover Operations Combatives, Close Quarter Battle (CQB), NLTA Instructor, Active Shooter, Ground Defense, Defensive Tactics, Tactical Rifle Instructor, Train-the-Trainer, Arrest Techniques, Low-Light Tactical, Use of Force and more. We continually speak at conferences and at the request of agencies and organizations on reality based training.
TRAINING CONTRACTS
Specific training contracts performed under formal contracting mechanisms include but are not limited to the US Federal Reserve Banks, US Fish & Wildlife, Office of Inspector General (OIG), US Postal Service (OIG), US Health and Human Services OIG, US Veterans Affairs OIG, State of Michigan, State of Oregon, St. Petersburg college and Pasco-Hernando Community College.
DESIGN CONTRACTS
Our training facility designs are from years of experience in operational and training environments, and researching and field-testing available technologies, simulation and gaming/theme parks, training methodologies, training curriculum development procedures (CRC’s, TAG’s), and construction techniques, constraints and challenges, such as: retrofits, space, size, funding and administration. We apply our collective skills, resources, and experience to design multipurpose immersive training facilities, fully adaptable to any skills training concepts – creating a fully immersive and responsive experience – not ineffective and redundant technique rehearsal.
Design Alternatives for Live Fire Constraints:
UTM Target Bullet Round (TBR) Training Facility allows unprecedented flexibility, versatility and cost efficiency in training. Its multi-purpose design makes it fully adaptable to any skills training or (active threat) situation –creating a fully immersive and responsive experience and not ineffective and redundant technique rehearsal.
Traditional live-fire shoot houses not only have a limited training environment but are rendered ineffective almost immediately because users respond to floor plan memorization and not performance objectives. Trainer and Instructors across the training industry are aware that once users flow through a house or specific area once, they become aware of where targets are, where the danger areas are and learn to clear that specific house very well – due to memorization, not skill proficiency. This creates a training scar. Users must be trained to understand the concept and why we clear a certain way, not because an instructor informed them what corner should be cleared.
Due to the traditional shoot house’s limited functionality and mandated construction restrictions due to safety requirements, the above is only one example of the many training scars that can be created from these confines. Examples are disproportionate doorways because of the thickness of SACON blocks, resulting in soldiers fixating on the center of the room and not collapsing their sectors of fire correctly. Additionally, room dimensions are often too restrictive, prohibiting multiple operators from moving into appropriate supporting role positions. Additionally, many traditional shoot house doorways are placed in unusual locations for safety rather then realism and versatility.
The TBR training facility and technology allows trainers to continuously reconfigure the lightweight walls into a multitude of tactical environments such as “4 ways”, “T-intersections” or “L-shaped” hallways, all in the same area. The multi-purpose design allows for large or small rooms, short or long hallways, opposing or offset doorways and skill building exercises for multiple groups working simultaneously through varied drills. It also can be designed as a two story facility without cost and safety becoming prohibiting factors.
Additional Benefits:
The TBR Training Facility has very little maintenance cost whereas with traditional live-fire Shoot Houses, Range control usually spends from $50,000 to $75,000 a year in maintenance of SACON blocks based on the amount of ammunition fired. The TBR is also a green ammunition and has minimal clean up and no costly lead abatement issues.
The TBR munitions utilized in the TBR Training Facility are specifically designed so impact energy does not exceed 15 Joules (11.1ft/lbs) and is intended for use as a training round that will not penetrate ¾”plywood, minimizing damage to the training facilities and dramatically reducing maintenance costs.
The TBR technology provides the high stress environments desired by trainers utilizing a live fire Shoot Houses, while reducing the chance of a lethal accident. (The TBR System drastically mitigates risk and injury if a training accident should occur).
The TBR Training Facility construction is normally 1/10th the cost of traditional live fire shoot house construction.