From the Air Operations Control Station at Nieuw Milligen (AOCS NM), Air Force combat controllers monitor and secure the Dutch part of NATO airspace. This includes the airspace over parts of the North Sea. In addition, AOCS NM air traffic control monitors, coordinates and supervises all military air traffic and parts of civil aviation.

The product responsible unit Education & Training (PVE O&T) of the 710 Air Combat Control Squadron is responsible for education and training of combat leaders and has a need to improve it. PVE O&T has access to a simulation environment to offer this education and training. In the current situation, it is difficult to generate challenging and tactically relevant scenarios for combat leader education and training. There is a need to be able to run scenarios more autonomously and to make scenarios easier to influence. The focus here is on air combat from fighter aircraft.

During the webinar, Maj. Roman van Rooijen (Head of PVE Education & Training ) and NLR's Remco Meiland will talk more about the SCOTT (Smart Controller Training Tool) project. A tool that can be used to simulate such air battles. The air battles can take place autonomously, but one can also easily intervene (in a user-friendly way) on the behaviour of fighter planes and thus steer the scenario. Meiland: 'Using SCOTT, we are making education and training of combat leaders more effective and efficient. We also enable training of new, larger scenarios that are also tactically relevant.'