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Managing Large-Scale Scenarios in VR-Forces with Sync Matrices

We’re excited to share this guest article by Eliana Saar, a Sales and Support Engineer at Synergy Integration, who outlines her experience supporting a complex, multi-scenario Battle Lab experiment using VR-Forces Synchronization Matrices.

During a recent Battle Lab experiment this past January, I took part as a field engineer from Synergy Integration Ltd., a MAK Technologies distributor specializing in modeling and simulation. I worked closely with the team on-site to support their use of MAK ONE tools, which form the core of their simulation environment.

Designing for an Open Common Synthetic Environment

In this edition of What's Up MAK, we explore why open Common Synthetic Environments (CSE) are a must as training systems grow bigger, more connected, and more realistic. We also look at how CSE-forward thinking shows up in day‑to‑day simulation applications, and **drumroll please** the MAKer Spotlight is back. (Guess who: OG MAKer, I/ITSEC karaoke superstar, Monopoly state champ, Grand Canyon runner...) Enjoy!

(TLDR: Lots of good stuff, just one quarterly newsletter.)

MAKer Spotlight: Len Granowetter, MAK CTO

After a multi-year hiatus, we’re bringing back our MAKer Spotlight where we dig into who’s who at MAK. First up is Len Granowetter, MAK’s CTO.

An OG MAKer since 1993, Len has spent more than three decades shaping MAK’s approach to modeling, simulation, and training. He brings deep technical expertise, business acumen, and a rich, long-game perspective to MAK, grounded in how real people and organizations are actually using the systems and software we build.

A Glimpse Inside the MAK ONE User Community

IITSEC 2025 may be a few months behind us, but the conversations from our December MAK ONE Users Conference are still very much worth sharing! We hosted this user group session during I/ITSEC to give our users a platform to talk about their work in their own words, and show how MAK ONE fits into real projects across different domains and organizations. As you’ll see, these stories hold up well beyond the show floor.

Keep reading for a quick overview of three MAK ONE user presentations from the event (complete with links to download the slides).

An Open Path Forward for Collective Training

by Deb Fullford, VP of Sales and Business Development

For more than three decades, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside government, industry, and international partners to advance collective training. I started back in the early days of Distributed Simulation working on both ARPA’s Maritime Synthetic Theater of War (MSTOW) and Warbreaker programs. Since then, I’ve been working to support the development of increasingly complex, AI-enabled synthetic environments.

Managing Large-Scale Scenarios in VR-Forces with Sync Matrices

Designing for an Open Common Synthetic Environment

MAKer Spotlight: Len Granowetter, MAK CTO

A Glimpse Inside the MAK ONE User Community

An Open Path Forward for Collective Training

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