Adaptive Experimentation Facility
The CMI2 Adaptive Experimentation Facility in Clay County, West Virginia, is a reclaimed coal mine property offering a challenging and combat-realistic facility for military users seeking a multi-domain environment for research and development for military technology.
ENGAGING THE WARFIGHTER
Those working to defend national security and win against adversaries can create realistic, flexible, affordable training events for Soldiers in this austere and controlled environment.
Experimentation & Development Opportunities
- Military – conduct collaborative experimentation and rapid combat readiness training
- First Responder – annual validation and professional development for all required skill sets
- Researchers – Accessibility for necessary documentation and evaluation of technology development
- Industry – Field experimentation and testing
Lines of Effort
Expose Soldiers to leading-edge technology in a live
force-on-force scenario
- Immersive, hands-on experience
- Professional red-team utilization
Identify problems (Soldier identified) for the innovators
to solve in the future
- Live force-on-force technology experimentation
- Researcher and developer engagement
- Soldiers get access/training on the advanced technology from the developers, and the developers get feedback and design modification suggestions from the Soldiers using the gear during the event.
Available Capabilities
- Low Angle Rope Rescue
- High Angle Rope Rescue
- Wilderness Rope Rescue
- Rappelling Operations
- Wilderness Search and Rescue
- Land Navigation
- Polaris ATV Courses
- Helicopter Operations (Infil/Exfil)
- Drivers Training (Day & Night)
- Downed Aircraft Personnel Recovery
- Lanes Training/STX Lanes
- Force on Force Training Areas
- UAS Support
- Structural Collapse Rescue
- Vehicle Machinery Rescue
- Trench Rescue
- Subterranean Operations
- Fire Rescue Operations
- Surface Water Operations
- Wilderness Medicine Course
- Confined Space Rescue
- STX Training Lanes