"Intelligent Tutoring System for Tactical Aircraft Training (ITS-AIR): Lessons Learned & Challenges", SDS International, R&D for US Military , 8/2000.
SAM/ITS-AIR is an intelligent Systems Automated Module which invokes, launches, pauses, resumes, stops, and quits complex applications resident on remote systems with a single button click, via a telnet connection. This connection validates the user, negotiates the telnet communication protocol, and transfers commands used to invoke the applications, in a transparent manner. The complexities associated with the telnet connection, and the commands used to invoke these applications, remotely, under different operating systems are all hidden from the user, which sees a simple two button interface. Multiple connections are launched, in a distributed manner. This simulation agent is used by pilots to practice flight instructions and exercises.