Douglas Maxwell, the Science and Technology Manager for Virtual World Strategic Applications with the U.S. Army Simulation and Training Center in Orlando, Florida states: "We use Second Life as an enabler and a collaboration technology, both on the public side and on the private networks. We can pump synthetic data into it for unclassified purposes, for prototyping, and we can put real data in whenever we do experimentation. When we meet in the MilLands initiative, for example, we cut across the services, and we collaborate on various experimentation initiatives. We're not meeting in Second Life for the novelty of being able to meet, we meet to discuss real business."
The organizer of the Virtual Worlds conference, Dr. Paulette Robinson who also works with the iCollege at the National Defense University notes that along with the military applications of virtual worlds, civilian federal agencies will soon have the ability to try out virtual work environments. Specifically she discusses:"We have the V-Gov project, which will be discussed Friday at the conference, which will set up a secure virtual world for the whole federal government. Not just one environment, but four. It's going to be a more robust environment, we have four partners, and we're going to see how much it's going to change the possibilities in the federal government. No longer do you have to worry about it being secure because it will be behind a firewall in a government agency. The Department of Agriculture is hosting that effort." Robinson predicts in the future virtual worlds will allow citizens to interact in a meaningful way with government agencies.
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