The Army CPE ST3 (Capability Program Executive for Simulation, Training, Test & Threat) is launching a prize challenge to accelerate the development of the Digital Enterprise Engineering Environment (DE3), also known as the Army Training Verse. This challenge seeks innovative commercial and emerging solutions that advance an integrated, AI-enabled Modeling and Simulation enterprise through technologies and services such as enterprise platforms, data and model marketplaces, AI/ML operations, digital engineering tools, and collaborative decision support capabilities.
The Army CPE ST3 (Capability Program Executive for Simulation, Training, Test & Threat) is launching a prize challenge to accelerate the development of a Digital Enterprise Engineering Environment (DE3), also referred to as the “Army Training Verse.” DE3 aims to establish an integrated, data-driven, AI-enabled Modeling and Simulation (M&S) enterprise that empowers rapid decision making, design implementation, and capability delivery. The initiative seeks innovative commercial and emerging concepts, architectures, tools, and services that enable enterprise platform services, model marketplaces, onboarding assistance, data translation, algorithm repurposing, software/data cataloging, 3D model rendering, AI modeling & MLOps, chat/interaction layers, and model/data playbooks. This prize competition is conducted under the Government’s prize authority [10 U.S.C. § 4025 (Prizes for advanced technology achievements) and 15 U.S.C. § 3719] and is governed by the Official Rules, which are incorporated by reference; submitting an entry constitutes acceptance of the Official Rules. A consolidated acronym list and glossary of key terms – including MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) and definitions of “Army Training Verse” and “marketplace” – will be provided in the Official Rules.
The DE3 / Army Training Verse construct envisions a persistent simulation ecosystem with cloud-based access, access at the Point of Need (PoN), minimum instrumentation infrastructure, and support for Joint simulation interoperability and replication of weapon effects. The ecosystem is intended to facilitate the integration of simulation engines, support sensor fusion, provide an app store and game/scenario store, provide access to synthetic models and digital content/development platforms, facilitate 3D graphics/rendering, offer an AI agents/bots store, and provide access to a standards library using a marketplace approach — leveraging commercial simulation products, digital/AI-enabled After Action Review (AAR), optimized scenario generation, and kinetic/non-kinetic threat replication to enable realistic training for Soldiers at the tactical edge.
This Army Training Verse Innovation Challenge is a multi-phased competition designed to accelerate the development of a Digital Engineering Enterprise Environment that supports the entire acquisition lifecycle. We seek to leverage commercial technology and modern open standards to create a versatile and intelligent simulation environment. The challenge is structured in a series of progressively complex stages, each with a corresponding prize amount, to incrementally build and test the platform’s capabilities.
Problem Statement
Today’s Army Digital Engineering (DE) and Modeling and Simulation (M&S) efforts often struggle to scale across portfolios due to fragmentation in tooling, data formats, and repositories – limiting reuse, slowing integration, and increasing the time and cost required to translate engineering artifacts into training- and mission-relevant simulations. The Army Training Verse / DE3 vision requires an enterprise approach: a centralized digital platform (and marketplace) that can store and manage simulation model data, Digital Engineering services, DevSecOps toolsets, and CAD files; connect to external digital environments via established/open APIs; and reliably exchange critical artifacts, such as CAD files, parametric simulation data, and SysML v2.0.
Beyond storage and connectivity, DE3 must enable an intelligent simulation pipeline that uses commercial technology and modern open standards to convert DE data into operationally relevant simulation environments, including military simulations (e.g. AtomEngine, OneSAF, VBS, etc.) and game engines (e.g. Unreal, Unity, Godot, etc.); you will propose the target environments. To prove practical value and strong operational relevance, DE3 should support a broad use of simulation use cases across all six M&S Communities (Acquisition, Analysis, Experimentation, Intelligence, Test and Evaluation, and Training).
This prize challenge is designed to incrementally de-risk and validate the DE3 ecosystem through progressively complex demonstrations, accelerating delivery of an integrated, data-driven, AI-enabled engineering and simulation enterprise with cloud-based access at the point of need. A practical application should be considered that brings together equities across the Army Enterprise and demonstrates their use in Training and at least one other M&S Community areas. While not prescriptive, we recommend considering UAS scenarios in which UAS are employed as a weapon to deliver munitions on a hostile target, to intercept enemy UAS, and as hostile drone threats that U.S. Soldiers must detect, react to, and train against. The prototype should demonstrate how existing models from the Army Verse Marketplace can be leveraged and extended into reusable training assets, and how UAS data, models, behaviors, renderings, and scenarios can be cataloged, shared, and reused across multiple virtual and constructive M&S environments. The demonstration should show end-to-end integration and scalability across the full digital thread using Army representative data (for the prize period, “Army representative data” means representative open-source, commercial, or synthetic data approved for public release; per Footnote 1, no Government-furnished Army data is provided during the prize period) at multi-user scale (at least 10 concurrent users) and a defined update rate of 0.5 Hz.
Awards:-
Total cash prizes: $450,000
- Challenge I (Foundation – Digital Platform, Connectivity, and Interoperability): $50,000
- Challenge II (Intelligent Simulation Pipeline): $100,000
- Challenge III (Practical): $100,000
- Challenge IV (Capstone – Full Integration & Scalability): $200,000
Deadline:- 30-09-2026
