{"id":180118,"date":"2024-01-09T09:23:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T15:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/space-force-taps-microsoft-to-build-cloud-based-simulated-space-environment"},"modified":"2024-01-09T09:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T15:23:29","slug":"space-force-taps-microsoft-to-build-cloud-based-simulated-space-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/space-force-taps-microsoft-to-build-cloud-based-simulated-space-environment","title":{"rendered":"Space Force taps Microsoft to build cloud-based, simulated space environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-force-taps-microsoft-to-build-cloud-based-simulated-space-environment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Space Force announced Friday that it has given Microsoft a contract to continue work on a simulated environment where guardians can train, test new capabilities and interact with digital copies of objects in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Under the $19.8 million, one-year contract from Space Systems Command (SSC), Microsoft will develop the Integrated, Immersive, Intelligent Environment (I3E) \u2014 an augmented reality space simulation powered by the company\u2019s HoloLens headsets. The training tool is a successor to the service\u2019s Immersive Digital Facility (IDF) prototype developed in 2023, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The contract period began Dec. 1, and the deal includes a reserved scope for an additional three years of work, per the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Force announced Friday that it has given Microsoft a contract to continue work on a simulated environment where guardians can train, test new capabilities and interact with digital copies of objects in orbit. Under the $19.8 million, one-year contract from Space Systems Command (SSC), Microsoft will develop the Integrated, Immersive, Intelligent Environment (I3E) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}