The Ministry of Government Efficiency of Elon Musk has ended a virtual reality project of several millions of dollars that soldiers have learned how to 'have difficult conversations', DailyMail.com can first report.
The Air Force and Space Force went out for a training program to better improve the fighting opportunities of soldiers, but to 'grow inclusive leaders'.
It was a priority for military officials among former President Joe Biden to tackle 'unconscious bias' in the military ranks and to create a more 'inclusive' strength, according to a memo of the White House.
So to do this, the Air Education and Training Command of the Air Force has distributed a stunning contract of $ 2.3 million to create a virtual reality experience in which soldiers would deal with an avatar who would help them speak and on act a dei-friendly way.
“This program enables the participants to have a conversation that is both realistic and difficult,” wrote a soldier of the Air Force next to a video testimony. “It uses a virtual avatar that is controlled by trained actors.”
It is just another way in which the Air and Space Force innovates and remains a step ahead of a time when we have difficult conversations! “The soldier went on.
But that project was directly demolished against the executive command of Donald Trump to eliminate diversity, stock and inclusion programs, so that the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) has canceled the initiative.
'Doge has canceled a contract of $ 2.3 mm with the University of the Air Force for the' Occupation of arms center of excellence unconscious bias mixed reality service '', a senior civil servant of the White House to Daily Mail.
The VR experience of Live offers dynamic decision-making moments aimed at growing inclusive leaders, according to the military sites that praise it. The Pro-Dei program was used during the Air Education and Training Command Squadron Leadership Course 26 January 2023, on Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas (shown above)
The live program was cut by Doge after President Donald Trump had signed an executive order to eliminate the Dei programs of the government
'The leading inclusive virtual experience, or live, program is a modernized learning tool consisting of a mixed virtual reality experience that uses a combination of interactive scenarios with an authentic, real-time dialogue to challenge individuals to difficult diversity, equity, inclusion to make and accessibility (deia) conversations, 'a press release advertised on it
According to a press release about the program, the 'leading inclusive virtual experience' program used Virtual Reality 'to challenge individuals to conduct difficult diversity, fairness, inclusion and accessibility (deia) conversations. '
While soldiers had interaction with this Dei Avatar, a room full of their colleagues would watch while the participant navigated 'difficult conversations'.
The Avatar was checked by an actor who would challenge the participant with tough topics, presumably with regard to race, gender, age and sexual orientation.
Literature produced by the Air Force to appoint the program, noticed how soldiers participated in the live program in a 'brave space'.
'When you participate in a live session, you immerse yourself in a safe but brave space to practice tackling exclusion with the help of realistic scenarios based on Airmen and Guardian experiences', a brochure in the initiative.
“When entering a brave space, flyers and guardians accept a level of discomfort in discussing personal perspectives and experiences, but know that they are safe to share because the respect and dignity of their fellow flyers and guardians,” Added the pamphlet.
If selected, soldiers would follow a three -day course that was funded by the secretary of the Diversity and Inclusion Office of the Air Force in the Eaker Center of Air University in Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.
The program grew year after year to record more participants.
In 2022 there were three live courses that instructed 52 participants in the Air Force.
The following year in 2023, the program held eight courses that trained 160 participants.
Elon Musk has been instructed by Trump to lower government waste. A senior civil servant of the White House revealed that Musk's Doge recently canceled the contract of the live program
Photos spread through the military show that the Avatars can be different races
Participants who took the program said it helped them
A spokesperson for the Pentagon suggested that DailyMail.com reached the Air Force and the Space Treats for comment.
However, the Air and Space Force did not immediately respond to the request from DailyMail.com for comments.
The cancellation of the live program comes weeks after Trump ordered all federal employees in dei roles, paid on paid leave.
Trump's Executive Order, entitled 'End -out radical and wasteful government -thei programs and preference and initial rescues of harmful executive orders and actions', a dei -executing order that President Biden was determined on his first day in office ago ago .
“President Biden believes that gender identity should not be a bar for military service, and that the power of America is found in his diversity,” said a release of 2021 from the White House.
“America is stronger, at home and all over the world, when it is included,” it went on.
The cancellation of the $ 2.3 million contract from the live program was discussed on the Magaland podcast of DailyMail.com.
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