Digital Influence and Social Simulation Lab (DISL)

The DISL provides a high-performance environment for modeling, experimentation, and cyber/information simulation, enabling researchers and cadets to prototype algorithms, analyze large datasets, and construct realistic wargame scenarios that expose vulnerabilities and test countermeasures. Its 14 high-end Mac and PC computing bays, large collaborative monitors, and specialized licenses for social media analytics and internet emulators make it a unique hub for simulating the information environment and translating data into action.

The DISL enables realistic modeling and experimentation within the information environment, allowing researchers and cadets to identify vulnerabilities, test countermeasures, and translate data-driven insights into operational understanding.

Extended Reality & Artificial Intelligence Lab (XR/AI Lab)

The XR/AI Lab immerses teams in advanced virtual environments to study human–machine teaming and operational decision-making under realistic conditions. Equipped with state-of-the-art VR systems such as the Varjo XR-4 and Virtuix Omni treadmill, alongside socially intelligent Furhat robots and AI-driven simulations, the lab combines embodiment, adaptive agents, and ecological fidelity to explore contested command-and-control, ethical dilemmas, and coalition coordination.

The XR/AI Lab provides immersive, high-fidelity environments to study decision-making, ethics, and coordination in human–machine teams under realistic and contested operational conditions.

Neuroimaging and Data Analysis Core

This core facility captures the neural and physiological mechanisms that shape human performance, decision-making, and resilience. Portable EEG and fNIRS systems allow high-density brain recordings, while advanced peripheral sensors track heart rate, respiration, oxygenation, and galvanic responses, producing synchronized multimodal data streams that reveal how minds and bodies adapt under stress and in team contexts.

This core facility reveals how neural and physiological processes underpin performance, stress, and resilience, enabling precise measurement of how individuals and teams adapt under operational demands.

Multi-Form Robotics Lab (MFRL)

The MFRL advances research on human–machine teaming across land, air, and humanoid domains, linking robotic embodiment to trust, adaptability, and resilience. Featuring Boston Dynamics’ Spot, Ghost Robotics’ Vision 60, the Vega humanoid, and a fleet of aerial drones, the lab enables studies of autonomy under stress, swarm coordination, and embodied interaction—often integrated with WERC’s neuroimaging and XR cores to test brain–computer interfaces and real-time workload monitoring.

The MFRL allows researchers to examine how robotic embodiment across land, air, and humanoid platforms shapes trust, adaptability, and coordination within human–machine teams.