Sorry for another necro.
TCM Gaming, lol.
Most of those guys are clueless. I'm glad I didn't have to deal with them when I was at USMA during the development of FM. They would have pushed VBS2, which we were already testing (I was actually using the commercial game as well as America's Army for training) before they even knew what it was. Hell I was doing what they call "Machinima" before they gave it a name.
The current NSC director was student when we first started DLDC at Leavenworth. I did an exercise with him using DA and TacOPs. Talk about a fun exercise. I would "cut" DA and TacOps maps at the end of each day in prep for the following day's operations. We did a division level exercise, non-cotiguous AO with like three or four areas. We had bandits, conventional forces, air assaults, all kinds of fun stuff. And we put this thing together on short notice. The students were the "Digital" division and were supposed to use JCATS, but for some reason it didn't happen so we ran it with DA and TacOps. JJ was a MAJ back then, along with Pat Connors (both made COL as FA57's).
Let's see. The biggest consumer of VBS2 is Fort Lewis. I know USMA is doing some land nav stuff with it, when I was there we used it during cadet basic training or CBT.
Hell VBS2 is as good as it's gonna get. Why do they need it to integrate with LVC environments? Besides the fact that it briefs well and is "sexy cool". I see this fantasy is still alive and kicking as well.
Bowen, lol.
TJ