Nellis Warfighters to Begin Training on Next-Gen F-35 Simulator in 2025

HII, together with the Air Force and Navy, is playing an integral role in evolving and integrating the JSE technology at a faster pace than America’s adversaries.

The U.S. Air Force’s long-awaited, much-anticipated Joint Simulation Environment (JSE)—a high-fidelity simulated battlespace system that warfighters will use to train on fifth-generation platforms—is expected to reach initial operational capability in 2025 at the Joint Integrated Test and Training Center Nellis (JITTC-N) at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, with full integration expected by 2028, experts from HII say.

HII, together with the Air Force and Navy, is playing an integral role in evolving and integrating the JSE technology at a faster pace than America’s adversaries.

HII currently supports the Air Force at the JITTC-N as the lead contractor, supporting capability studies, battlespace and platform integration, and software development tasks.

“[JSE] is so critical for the warfighter because today’s training ranges just can’t keep up with the fifth-gen platforms and how they need to train. These platforms can’t train systems high—they don’t have the space required on ranges. You don’t get the threat densities, and you can’t keep up with the adversary threat evolution,” HII Mission Technologies’ vice president for Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC).