DITS – Deployable Instrumented Training System
The DITS is a fully deployable modular instrumented combined arms training system that can be configured to meet the training needs of a platoon/company up to brigade combat team size.
The system has the ability to interface with other Live, Virtual and Constructive training systems. The US Army has primarily used DITS to increase mission readiness and to maintain skills and motivation when the troops are deployed. The US 7th Army Training Command (7ATC) has used four DITS systems with 1400 instrumented player sets for over five years in the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Kuwait and Rumania and pre-deployment training in Germany. Six systems were recently used by the US 1st Cavalry Division for deployed training in Iraq.
DITS has been enhanced to support platoon/company tactical urban (MOUT) training enabling troops to be seamlessly tracked into buildings and be vulnerable to direct/indirect fires. A further enhanced has been the addition of IED simulation to meet the training needs of Convoy Protection Training.
The 7th ATC recently started using the name of DISE (Deployed Instrumentation System Europe) which encompasses the combined use of DITS with an instrumented system for Apache helicopters called C-TESS for combined ground and airborne exercises.
There are twelve DITS in use with the US Army and one will enter service with the USMC