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[[File:VMASC Facility.jpg|thumb|VMASC Facility in Suffolk, VA]] VMASC is located at 1030 University Boulevard in [[Suffolk%2C_Virginia| Suffolk]], [[Virginia]]. Capabilities consist of approximately 6,000 square feet of lab space including two general-purpose labs, a visualization lab, a human factors lab, and a 74-seat virtual reality theater supporting live, virtual, and constructive simulation integration.
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VMASC concentrates on eight core Modeling & Simulation applied research areas:
The Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC) began as an idea, a concept driven by need: the [http://www.jfcom.mil/about/abt_j7.htm Joint Warfighting Center] required short-courses and formal training of its staff and [[Old Dominion University|ODU]] determined it would take on that task. The concept became a plan, the plan became a Center; and all of this transpired over a three-year period from fall of 1994 to the summer of 1997.<ref> [http://www.vmasc.odu.edu/downloads/VMASC_Ten_Year_Narrative.pdf VMASC a Ten Year Narrative] </ref>
which became the US [[United States Joint Forces Command|Joint Forces Command]] (USJFCOM) in Suffolk, Virginia. One of its core requirements was to establish a facility with the infrastructure and workforce necessary to conduct simulation-based joint training that was not dependent on large-scale and expensive field training exercises. To meet that requirement the JTASC was charged with developing the processes and procedures, designing the facility, developing the workforce, and conducting joint exercises necessary to prepare Joint Task Force (JTF) Commanders to conduct operations as a Joint Force vice the individual service approach. It was apparent that the workforce of the future was not available in the Hampton Roads area; JTASC would have to develop this workforce in order to be successful in its assigned role.
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In October, organizers of the future center put together a status report that described an effort to develop a computer simulation demonstration project that could be used to illustrate the sophistication and significance of next generation computer modeling and simulation technologies. The project was to address a research area rich enough to include modeling both physical and economic processes with several separate, but interrelated entities. The problem ideally suited for this demonstration was the investigation of ways to enhance the control and management of the fl ow of commercial goods through the Port of Hampton Roads. With this demonstration project, the organizers were expanding the depth of research opportunities for the Center while making the Center a valuable resource for solving problems affecting the economy in the region. It was obvious the Commonwealth needed to get involved. It was equally apparent ODU needed to begin thinking beyond the short courses to approach the state with any budgetary requests in support of this new endeavor.
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