The SimET course is designed to provide an overarching understanding of the capability and application of defence simulation systems, underpinned by an appreciation of the domain’s underlying technologies and tools. SimET is capability focused and underpinned by extensive practical work. The course makes extensive use of the Simulation and Synthetic Environments Laboratory (SSEL) and contains the following subject areas within a 5 week module.

Course Aim

The aim of SimET is to prepare selected officers for Grade 2 staff appointments by applying a common understanding of Defence modelling and simulation for use in appointments across the service career fields”

End State

An officer with the practical knowledge and skills to be successful and competitive in modelling and simulation staff appointments across the MOD.

Why choose this course?

The course is principally designed to prepare selected Army officers for future management appointments within the field of defence simulation. The course is also appropriate to candidates from both the Air and Maritime domains, alongside defence industry.

SimET is a 5 week course designed to provide training and education for military staff entering simulation appointments for the first time. In many cases it may be the first course that officers will have attended that is dedicated to Modelling and Simulation (M&S) across defence. As M&S is ubiquitous, the course is complementary to Acquisition Employment Training (AET) which may be completed before or after SimET dependent on the type of appointment the student undertakes.

“The increasingly complex nature of defence inexorably raises the standard of professionalism required to excel in this business. It is our duty to those service personnel who put their lives on the line on operations today and in the future to ensure that, when we fill an appointment that puts us in a supporting role, we bring at least the same level of professionalism to that appointment as we would to an appointment in the front line”
AD Macklin, Major General