UrbanSim is a PC-based virtual training application for practicing the art of mission command in complex counterinsurgency and stability operations. It uses story-driven content, complex socio-cultural simulation and a game-based user interface to train US Army battalion commanders and their staffs in the art of battle command in the complex environment of counterinsurgency and stability operations.
Created for the US Army School of Command Preparation, UrbanSim was developed in cooperation with the US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM-STTC), the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), and Quicksilver Software, Inc.
UrbanSim is being used at both the US Army School for Command Preparation and the Command and General Staff College, as well as with operational US Army units.
