Dynepic Awarded $3.6M Contract Increase to ‘Level Up’ and Expand MOTAR

Benefits for ecosystem users include enhanced security evaluation, more time and cost savings 

RENO, NV --- The United States Air Force’s Air Education and Training Command (AETC) has awarded Dynepic® a ~$3.6M increase to its current contract to support the expansion of its secure DX platform, white-labeled for the US Air Force as MOTAR (Member-Operations-Training-Analytics-Reports). The modification increases the total contract value to over $10M and is an exciting proof point to the value and innovation Dynepic’s platform has brought to the USAF since it became a requirement last year. 

“At Dynepic one of our goals is to always be working to ‘Level Up,’ and that’s exactly what this contract modification will do for MOTAR,” said Co-Founder and CEO Krissa Watry. “This increase will help support Dynepic and its vendor ecosystem to continue bringing US Airmen the best in modern training technologies and experiences and help support the acceleration of Authority to Operate (ATO) certification for vendor technologies integrated with MOTAR.”

The first key piece of the MOTAR expansion is the creation of a Software Factory, which will save significant time and money as well as ensure the deepest level of security for every app and training tool in the MOTAR ecosystem. 

“The MOTAR Software Factory will automate the activities in the development, build, test, release, and deliver phases and support multi-tenancy, helping ecosystem vendors deliver cutting edge training to Airman faster and more securely using a modern DevSecOps pipeline,” explained Brian Moyer, Dynepic’s Director of Cyber Security. “By implementing a Software Factory, MOTAR will improve software product consistency and quality; shorten time to market, increase productivity for applications within the MOTAR ecosystem, and simplify governance. Additionally, applications will be able to leverage the MOTAR ATO (estimated completion of June 2022) to obtain a Certificate to Field (CtF), which will greatly reduce the approval time required to get their application fielded in a production environment.”

The second piece of the expansion is the new Airman Learning Record that will be available within MOTAR, designed as a one-stop-shop for capturing and reporting an Airman’s training across their career. The Airman Learning Record will bridge and aggregate their training data from authoritative sources active in the USAF and is the first end-to-end MVP integration of the ALR, MOTAR’s new mission planning capabilities, and an AI-driven Competency Management. This effort will allow Dynepic to expand the AI agnostic plug-in framework on the platform and pilot an ecosystem approach to AI with Discovery Machine®, Inc. blazing the trail. 

“MOTAR is critical to the creation of a unified training system that will allow the Department of the Air Force (DAF) to modernize existing training and be future-ready as emerging technologies come online,” shared MOTAR program manager SMSgt Powell Crider. “Using MOTAR to link together disparate systems and present information in a modern, adaptable interface, allows us to deliver pertinent training and operation data with the analytics and features required for the future Air Force.”

US Air Force Cements Dynepic Training Platform as AETC Requirement

The U.S. Air Education and Training Command (AETC) leaders have unanimously voted to validate Dynepic’s Member Operations Training Analytics and Reports platform (MOTAR) as an AETC requirement, marking it as a key function of Force Development for all future Airmen. Effective immediately, AETC wings will get both the new training models with virtual reality and artificial intelligence, and the solutions for tracking progress.

This agile system ensures the highest quality Airmen graduate the AETC pipeline, equipped with every aspect of knowledge, skill and experience. MOTAR also provides robust performance analytics to its talent management systems, keeping the Air Force modern by following Airmen from the beginning of their career all the way to retirement.

Maj. Jesse Johnson, Commander of the Analysis and Innovation Directorate’s Det 23 and Tech Training Transformation (T3) started with a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) proposal, pitching collaboration with the Dynepic DX learning platform to create an Air Force-unique, digital ecosystem. After receiving approval, the combined team finished the job in 10 months, launching MOTAR.

When the T3 team presented MOTAR to AETC’s leaders, the panel unanimously voted to validate MOTAR as an AETC requirement.

Christina Padron, Director of Partnerships and Growth, said: “This sets MOTAR on the path to become a USAF (United States Air Force) Program of Record, and it isn’t just about us - MOTAR supports an entire ecosystem of the most cutting edge and powerful training technologies from some of the most innovative companies in the industry, which are now accessible for all trainers and students across the USAF.”

T3 used AFWERX, RapidX, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Agile Acquisitions methodologies to envision and develop MOTAR.

US Air Force Awards Dynepic $6.6m Phase III Contract to Power Training Data Hub & Ecosystem

Multi-year commitment brings significant impact and savings to USAF content creators, trainers & students!

RENO, NV -- Dynepic Inc. has won again, and it’s B I G !!! 

“We’re successfully powering a holistic ecosystem for immersive training and inventing the future with the USAF and the MOTAR platform,” said co-founder and CEO Krissa Watry. 

The Reno, Nevada tech company will leverage the $6.6M sole-source Phase III Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract to bring the power of Dynepic’s secure digital infrastructure and open ecosystem, white-labeled as MOTAR (Member. Operations. Training. Analytics. Reports), to the United States Air Force (USAF) enterprise. The result will ensure students get the best training possible to fit their learning preferences before moving to the field, and instructors can be confident in skills of each individual. 

“It will always be an honor to work with our USAF partners, and we’re particularly excited about the deep impact we’ll be able to have with this effort,” Watry said.  “Combined with the incredible technologies activated on MOTAR from our ecosystem vendors, we have limitless potential.

As part of this Phase III contract, the USAF’s Maintenance Training Next (MxNext) program leveraged Dynepic’s MOTAR Platform to deliver the Crew Chief Fundamentals Course. Within this course, four individual 3rd-party vendors quickly activated their augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications to seamlessly deliver a variety of training content directly to Airmen across devices. While students trained, their performance metrics passed securely in real-time to live learning MOTAR dashboards where instructors, managers, and leadership could track their progress. The Airmen in this MxNext course completed their training in about half the time relative to traditional training methods, with no significant performance differences – ultimately training faster and improving readiness. 

“The team training on MOTAR was able to get the same results in a more efficient and effective way than they were used to,” Watry said. “The students reported that training felt more engaging, realistic, and fun, and the trainers were able to get real-time feedback on how each of them was doing throughout the training.” 

Under this Phase III effort, Dynepic has already begun to build out capabilities that will greatly enhance the MOTAR experience for both vendors and users. New feature additions in the coming months will help instructors manage course versioning, question banks, and course schedule and management. 

The expansion will also include:

• A central content management system with permission-based sharing for lessons, 3D models, map packs, and more;

• Improve platform collaboration and content discovery through communities and vendor showcase pages;

• Plug-ins and APIs for integration with legacy Learning Management Systems;

• Expand the Hub (previously MOTAR’s App Store) to support various types of vendor technology (AR, VR, AI, etc.) and application distribution requirements; and

• Achieve a MOTAR Authority to Operate (ATO) in 2022 for IL4 operations.

The contract also represents a unique collaboration between the USAF Air Education Training Command (AETC)’s Tech Training Transformation (T3) team who awarded the contract, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) Simulators Division Innovation Cell, and additional USAF units across the Major Commands. Dynepic has been working closely with these groups to onboard selected vendors with technologies relevant to their missions; most recently, this included activating and further integrating 15 different vendors and XR training technologies on the MOTAR platform as part of Dynepic’s Accelerating Pilots to Combat Ready Aviators AFWERX Challenge win. 

To see MOTAR in action, check out this video. If you’d like to learn more and get involved, please reach out to info@dynepic.com or connect with us on LinkedIn. 

About Dynepic, Inc.

Launched in 2014, Dynepic, Inc. is a woman- and service-disabled veteran founded tech company based out of Reno, Nevada. Dynepic’s DX Platform is a secure, device- and software- agnostic infrastructure with open APIs, LMS/LRS, and a central training hub to build an open ecosystem for XR to power the future of multi-dimensional knowledge for a better tomorrow. To learn more about Dynepic, check out our website and connect with us on LinkedIn. 

Dynepic, Inc. Awarded USAF Phase II SBIR to Power the Future of Air Traffic Control Technical Training

The US Air Force will leverage Dynepic’s MOTAR platform to streamline Air Traffic Control technical training and further expand its instructor support capability.

The US Air Force has awarded Dynepic, Inc. a Phase II SBIR contract to further evolve the company’s proven DX platform and enable enhanced instructor support capabilities. The secure platform, white-labeled as MOTAR to the USAF, brings together disparate learning resources and provides an XR-optimized training creation, distribution, and management system for Air Education and Training Command (AETC) instructors.

"We're very excited to add further learning management system and dashboard capabilities to MOTAR, enabling instructors to track the effectiveness and efficiency of their courses and student’s progress from anywhere on the globe,” said Krissa Watry, CEO of Dynepic, Inc. “Not only will this solve current USAF instructor frustrations and save time but it also provides a bridge to enable legacy training programs to utilize AI, Virtual Instructors and XR in their courses.”

Currently, training content for these courses is scattered throughout multiple storage directories, and scheduling is done in varied spreadsheets and sometimes just on paper. There’s also no easy way to track or report course metrics, resulting in an inefficient, error-prone, and frustrating experience for everyone involved. Dynepic’s MOTAR will solve these issues, and allow for legacy training programs to modernize with XR training options. 

Over the next few months, Dynepic will further expand MOTAR to build the Instructor Support System (ISS) capability and demonstrate how it supports preparation and execution of the existing USAF Air Traffic Controller training courses with all current training content. The new system will initially be used by the 334th Training Squadron at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, MS, to provide initial training for future Air Traffic Controllers and the 137th Special Operations Group/Formal Training Unit in Oklahoma City. The 137th SOG/FTU’s instructors will test MOTAR's capabilities during its MC-12 Liberty Manned Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Pilot and Combat Systems Operator formal flight training courses.

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About Dynepic, Inc.

Launched in 2014, Dynepic, Inc. is a woman- and service-disabled veteran founded tech company based out of Reno, Nevada. Dynepic’s DX Platform is secure, device- and software- agnostic infrastructure with open API’s, LMS/LRS, and a central training hub to build an open ecosystem for XR to power the future of multi-dimensional knowledge for a better tomorrow. www.dynepic.com