With the exception of the aforementioned USAF activities in Orlando, all others have acquisition authority and life cycle program management responsibility for all training systems in their respective services.
The peer-reviewed process spans half a year as prospective authors must pass multiple quality assurance gates.
Authors must first submit an abstract to one of the six sub-committees: education, emerging concepts and innovative technologies, human systems engineering, simulation, training, or the policy, standards, management, and acquisition subcommittee.
Finally, on the last day of the conference (Friday), invited speakers present special workshops, which are like the Monday tutorials but longer.
The conference includes an exhibit hall, which typically comprises approximately 192,000 square feet and features over 550 organizations and agencies.
Annually, the NTSA publishes short video clips of notable booths on their YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/NTSAToday Each year I/ITSEC hosts a series of special events that reflect emerging topics in the modeling, simulation, and training domain.
Conference leaders bestow the "I/ITSEC Fellow" title to an influential person whose contributions have fundamentally shaped contemporary simulation and training capabilities.
Individuals receive this recognition by being nominated and meeting conference leadership's standards for merit; consequently, the number of Fellow awards varies by year.
During I/ITSEC, the NTSA conducts outreach to students and teachers, primarily from the K-12 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields.