The use of wargames in the Air Force curriculum to date has been hindered by the significant amount of time and effort required to develop new wargames. Existing wargames built for Air Force students are disparate, one-off efforts, implemented on different platforms, with drastically varying interfaces that impose a steep learning curve on the student and waste valuable classroom time. An even larger concern is tomorrow’s wargames. Because warfare can change so quickly, as evidenced by the events of the last decade, the Air Force’s curriculums must change just as swiftly. Using current wargame development methods, however, the construction of wargames necessarily lags behind current events and modern military theory. Instructors must rely on programmers – who often do not have the necessary subject matter expertise – to build the wargames for them to use in their courses. This is costly, slow, and error- prone.

According to Lt. Col. Dan Novak, USAF Retired ACSC Chief of Wargaming and Course Director at Air University, "I see this model growing in use beyond Air University classrooms by empowering instructors to make changes to a wargame or simulation, based on the needs of their students, without having to process software change requests in a system which can take weeks if not months to complete. Given time and a growing community library of SimVentive scenarios, this software will change the way instructors use games and simulations in the classroom."

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