Southwest Research Institute is renowned for the development of innovative and effective solutions to training, simulation, and performance improvement problems. The Institute develops unique performance-enhancing programs and systems, using state-of-the-art technologies, to provide a wide range of integrated solutions. SwRI's technical expertise can be transferred into a variety of training, modeling and simulation, and performance improvement domains.

Staff members conduct research in emerging instructional design theories and specialize in the development of application of training technologies such as virtual environments, embedded computer-based training, speech recognition, and real-time computer generated imagery.