CAPTRS Institute
Advancing The Science of Preparedness
Why Games?
Emergencies and crises are complex, and the path to global resilience requires innovative solutions. We are at the forefront, developing and delivering sophisticated science-based games and supporting solutions that redefine readiness, preparedness, response, and recovery from future threats. We believe in the power of gaming as a proven technique that offers participants an imaginative, exploratory, and safe-to-fail platform to hone their decision-making skills through competition, collaboration, and cooperation
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Practice Response
CAPTRS is pioneering the science of vigorous simulation gaming for threat response. Our games will help your organization, agency or team be better trained and ready regardless of the threat at hand.
Improve Decision Making
By participating in our gaming exercises you will improve your decision making process, team dynamics, situational awareness and make better tradeoffs in the heat of the moment.
Overcome Failure of Imagination
By preparing for a vast universe of threats, CAPTRS rigorous games and scenarios help bring forward superior strategies to combat these threats.
Our Approach
Our solutions are built on a transdisciplinary foundation — from cognitive science to advanced modeling — to precisely target and enhance the critical elements of decision making: situational awareness, decision, and action performance.
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