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Moth+Flame

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Moth+Flame is a New York company, founded in 2015, that builds virtual reality training and readiness analytics. It says it has trained more than 65,000 people, including more than 45,000 warfighters across the Air Force, Army, Navy and SOCOM.

Websitehttps://mothandflamevr.com/
HeadquartersNew York, NY
Founded2015
OwnershipNot published.
In this guideSuicide prevention and SAPR; Leadership, safe AI use and cybersecurity; Aviation maintenance; Shipbuilding and shipyard trades; Drones, counter-drone, EW and space; AI-powered training; Readiness assessment and analytics; Pilot training and flight simulation; Healthcare communication; Corporate leadership and soft skills; Hiring and realistic job previews; Skilled trades and workforce training

This profile uses the same fields and length limits as every other provider in the guide, drawn from Moth+Flame’s own materials and public records.

Suicide prevention and SAPR

Products named: Suicide Prevention; Sexual Assault Prevention & Response; Foundational Skills

What they offerMoth+Flame offers VR suicide prevention training on the Ask, Care, Escort (ACE) model, where trainees practice interventions aloud with filmed actors, and sexual assault prevention and response modules on bystander intervention, supporting victims and reporting, plus modules on consent and setting boundaries.
Who they serveMoth+Flame says it has trained more than 20,000 people in suicide prevention, including service members across all branches and special operations.
How it is deliveredMoth+Flame says its suicide prevention training works on VR headsets, desktop and mobile, online or offline, including in classified environments.
VR headset: yes; Desktop or browser: yes; Mobile: yes; Offline: yes; Classified: yes
Assessment and analyticsMoth+Flame says real-time behavioral analytics track engagement, confidence and skill demonstration, and that unit-level reports, cohort heat maps and dashboards show commanders which groups need support.
AI featuresMoth+Flame says its platform includes AI-assisted content generation that builds VR scenarios from natural-language prompts.
Notable public programs and contractsMoth+Flame publishes a case study on the Department of Defense's use of its ACE-based VR suicide prevention training and says the training is backed by DoD-funded research and IRB-approved studies, including a Florida State research study.
How to buyMoth+Flame says it is available through SBIR Phase III, GSA IDIQ and DLA TLS, and that its suicide prevention training is eligible for SBIR Phase III sole-source awards.

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Leadership, safe AI use and cybersecurity

Products named: Leadership VR Library; CommandAI

What they offerMoth+Flame offers voice-driven VR leadership scenarios on feedback, conflict, supporting a struggling direct report and leading change, and CommandAI, which puts trainees in a simulated workday with an AI assistant to practice using it safely.
Who they serveMoth+Flame says its leadership scenarios are designed for executive decision-makers, technical team leads, operational unit commanders and high-potential managers, with modules tailored for military officers and enterprise managers.
How it is deliveredMoth+Flame says its Leadership VR Library works on a VR headset, desktop or mobile and is fully offline-capable for enterprise and classified environments.
VR headset: yes; Desktop or browser: yes; Mobile: yes; Offline: yes; Classified: yes
Assessment and analyticsMoth+Flame says its leadership training tracks tone, pacing and clarity, and that CommandAI assesses what information trainees give an AI assistant, whether they check its output and who owns the final decision.
AI featuresMoth+Flame says leaders respond by voice, using natural language processing, and that its platform's AI-assisted content generation builds VR scenarios from natural-language prompts.
Notable public programs and contractsNot published.
How to buyMoth+Flame says it is available through SBIR Phase III, GSA IDIQ and DLA TLS, with headquarters buying platform access and units licensing content and headset support.

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Aviation maintenance

Products named: Aircraft Maintenance Library

What they offerMoth+Flame offers VR aircraft maintenance modules for rehearsing engine start, run and shutdown, flight control rigging, flight control surface removal, towing, radio use and egress, modeled on airframes including the C-130H, C-130J, C-17A, C-5M, F-15C, F-15E, E-8, MC-12 and C-295.
Who they serveMoth+Flame says its maintenance library serves new maintainers, crew chiefs cross-training and maintainers preparing for weapons certifications, and is built to deploy across Air Force and Army Aviation.
How it is deliveredMoth+Flame says maintainers train without taking aircraft off the flight line, using modules on a headset, desktop or mobile, with offline capability for air-gapped environments.
VR headset: yes; Desktop or browser: yes; Mobile: yes; Offline: yes; Classified: yes
Assessment and analyticsMoth+Flame says real-time dashboards track individual and team progress, error rates and procedural proficiency, and that its procedural walkthroughs assess performance and safety adherence in real time.
AI featuresMoth+Flame says its platform includes AI-assisted content generation that builds VR scenarios from natural-language prompts.
Notable public programs and contractsMoth+Flame's published case study says Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex partnered with it to use VR training for recruiting, upskilling and workforce development of U.S. Air Force aircraft maintainers.
How to buyMoth+Flame says it is available through SBIR Phase III, GSA IDIQ and DLA TLS, with headquarters buying platform access and units licensing content and headset support.

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Shipbuilding and shipyard trades

Products named: not published

What they offerMoth+Flame offers VR trades and maintenance training for shipyard workers, such as pipefitting and welding, built on its maintenance training platform.
Who they serveMoth+Flame says the training is for shipyard workers in trades such as pipefitting and welding.
How it is deliveredMoth+Flame says its shipyard trades training is delivered in VR and built on its maintenance training platform.
VR headset: yes; Desktop or browser: not published; Mobile: not published; Offline: yes; Classified: yes
Assessment and analyticsNot published.
AI featuresMoth+Flame says training specific to a shipyard is generated with AI from that yard's own material, and that a pipefitting module was built in about a day.
Notable public programs and contractsNot published.
How to buyMoth+Flame says it is available through SBIR Phase III, GSA IDIQ and DLA TLS, with headquarters buying platform access and units licensing content and headset support.

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Drones, counter-drone, EW and space

Products named: Counter UAS; MQ-9 360 Video Instruction; MQ-9 360 Emergency Procedures; MQ-9: 360 TTP

What they offerMoth+Flame offers a Counter UAS VR module on detecting and reporting drones, 360-degree video MQ-9 modules on emergency procedures and tactics, AI-assisted VR scenarios for counter-drone and electronic warfare tasks, and an unclassified rehearsal environment for Space Force electronic warfare squadrons.
Who they serveMoth+Flame says its MQ-9 training has served U.S. Air Force MQ-9 pilot trainees and instructors.
How it is deliveredMoth+Flame says its counter-drone and MQ-9 training is delivered in VR, including 360-degree video, and that its counter-drone and EW content is delivered from AWS GovCloud and can run offline.
VR headset: yes; Desktop or browser: not published; Mobile: not published; Offline: yes; Classified: yes
Assessment and analyticsMoth+Flame says its operations training captures performance data for playback and review, its MQ-9 modules track student progress, and its rehearsal environment for Space Force EW squadrons assesses each operator individually, with tiered progression.
AI featuresMoth+Flame says it builds counter-drone and electronic warfare VR scenarios with AI assistance, so new threats can be added quickly.
Notable public programs and contractsMoth+Flame's published case study says the U.S. Air Force implemented its VR personal simulator for training pilots of MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft, to ease bottlenecks in large-format simulators.
How to buyMoth+Flame says it is available through SBIR Phase III, GSA IDIQ and DLA TLS, with headquarters buying platform access and units licensing content and headset support.

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AI-powered training

Products named: Command IQ

What they offerMoth+Flame offers voice-driven VR conversation practice that it says uses natural language processing, AI-enabled conversations through its Command IQ platform, and AI-assisted authoring that builds VR scenarios from natural-language prompts.
Who they serveMoth+Flame says its voice-driven leadership scenarios are tailored for executives, team leads, military officers and enterprise managers, and Command IQ is built for readiness, training and mission leaders.
How it is deliveredMoth+Flame says Command IQ supports simulations and AI-enabled conversations across VR, desktop and browser, and its voice-driven leadership training also runs on mobile and offline.
VR headset: yes; Desktop or browser: yes; Mobile: yes; Offline: yes; Classified: yes
Assessment and analyticsMoth+Flame says Command IQ turns learner decisions, communication quality and performance under pressure into assessments of proficiency, with AI analysis calibrated by human expert reviewers.
AI featuresMoth+Flame says its AI features include natural-language conversations that adapt to learner behavior in real time, AI-generated behavioral analysis validated by expert reviewers, and scenario generation from natural-language prompts.
Notable public programs and contractsNot published.
How to buyMoth+Flame says it is available through SBIR Phase III, GSA IDIQ and DLA TLS, with headquarters buying platform access and units licensing content and headset support.

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Readiness assessment and analytics

Products named: Command IQ

What they offerMoth+Flame offers Command IQ, an analytics platform that captures learner decisions, communication quality and performance under pressure in each session, maps training to doctrine and competency frameworks, and turns the data into evidence of proficiency and readiness gaps.
Who they serveMoth+Flame says Command IQ dashboards serve commanders, instructors and program managers, and that the platform is built for readiness, training modernization, curriculum and operational leaders.
How it is deliveredMoth+Flame says Command IQ works across VR, desktop and browser training environments and connects with existing LMS platforms and enterprise data systems rather than replacing them.
VR headset: yes; Desktop or browser: yes; Mobile: not published; Offline: not published; Classified: not published
Assessment and analyticsMoth+Flame says Command IQ provides commander dashboards with cohort scores, trends and at-risk learners, usage heatmaps across units and a career map of the roles learners are ready for next.
AI featuresMoth+Flame says Command IQ uses AI to analyze behavioral data and surface patterns, and that every assessment is calibrated by expert human reviewers, so AI does not make final judgments on people.
Notable public programs and contractsMoth+Flame's case studies describe an analytics dashboard showing risk patterns by branch, unit or rank in Department of Defense suicide prevention training, and a VR-based training and evaluation system piloted by Indiana's Department of Child Services with Accenture.
How to buyMoth+Flame says it is available through SBIR Phase III, GSA IDIQ and DLA TLS, with headquarters buying platform access and units licensing content and headset support.

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Pilot training and flight simulation

Products named: Moth+Flame VR Flight Sim

What they offerMoth+Flame offers VR Flight Sim, portable aircraft-specific VR pilot training, with modules for F-16 and T-38 basic fighter maneuvers, F-16 and AH-64 flight parameters, MQ-9 emergency procedures and tactics in 360-degree video, and MC-12 mission rehearsal.
Who they serveMoth+Flame says VR Flight Sim supports fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft and is available for undergraduate pilot training, basic fighter maneuvers and emergency-procedure refreshers for deployed units.
How it is deliveredMoth+Flame says VR Flight Sim deploys in Pelican cases, on desktop VR or through secure cloud, works offline and in classified environments, and lets instructors run scenarios from a browser.
VR headset: yes; Desktop or browser: not published; Mobile: not published; Offline: yes; Classified: yes
Assessment and analyticsMoth+Flame says VR Flight Sim tracks and scores every maneuver, including G-force handling, turn quality and positional accuracy, on instructor dashboards, and instructors can replay sessions and grade against ideal profiles.
AI featuresMoth+Flame says VR Flight Sim includes AI-powered coaching and AI-driven analytics alongside real-time instructor controls.
Notable public programs and contractsMoth+Flame's published case study says the U.S. Air Force implemented its VR personal simulator for MQ-9 pilot training to ease bottlenecks in large-format simulators.
How to buyMoth+Flame says it is available through SBIR Phase III, GSA IDIQ and DLA TLS, with headquarters buying platform access and units licensing content and headset support.

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Healthcare communication

Products named: Healthcare VR Library

What they offerMoth+Flame offers voice-driven VR scenarios in which healthcare providers practice high-stakes conversations with real actors, including advance care planning, recommending comfort care, serious-illness conversations, and conflict with patients and colleagues.
Who they serveMoth+Flame says its healthcare scenarios support nurses and clinical staff, physicians and advanced practice providers, patient experience and risk teams, and behavioral health, palliative care and crisis teams.
How it is deliveredMoth+Flame says its healthcare training runs on desktop, headset or mobile and is available offline for hospital or clinical deployment.
VR headset: yes; Desktop or browser: yes; Mobile: yes; Offline: yes
Assessment and analyticsMoth+Flame says its healthcare training gives real-time data on empathy, tone, pacing and confidence, and lets providers revisit scenarios and track their growth over time.
AI featuresMoth+Flame says its platform includes AI-assisted content generation that builds VR scenarios from natural-language prompts.
Notable customers and programsNot published.
How to buyMoth+Flame says it is available through SBIR Phase III, GSA IDIQ and DLA TLS, with headquarters buying platform access and units licensing content and headset support.

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Corporate leadership and soft skills

Products named: Corporate Leadership library

What they offerMoth+Flame offers voice-driven VR leadership scenarios in which managers practice giving feedback, resolving conflict between direct reports, checking in on an employee who is struggling, persuasion, project initiation and communicating change, including how bringing AI into the workplace affects an employee.
Who they serveMoth+Flame says its leadership scenarios are designed for executive decision-makers, technical team leads and high-potential managers, with modules tailored for enterprise managers and military officers.
How it is deliveredMoth+Flame says its leadership training works on a VR headset, desktop or mobile and is offline-capable.
VR headset: yes; Desktop or browser: yes; Mobile: yes; Offline: yes
Assessment and analyticsMoth+Flame says its leadership training tracks tone, pacing and clarity, and that CommandAI assesses what information trainees give an AI assistant, whether they check its output and who owns the final decision.
AI featuresMoth+Flame says leaders respond by voice, using natural language processing, and that its platform's AI-assisted content generation builds VR scenarios from natural-language prompts.
Notable customers and programsNot published.
How to buyMoth+Flame says it is available through SBIR Phase III, GSA IDIQ and DLA TLS, with headquarters buying platform access and units licensing content and headset support.

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Hiring and realistic job previews

Products named: VR realistic job previews

What they offerMoth+Flame offers VR realistic job previews and assessments: candidates go through immersive scenarios that show the emotional realities of a role, and behavioral analytics help candidates and HR teams judge fit before an offer.
Who they serveMoth+Flame publishes a case study in which Indiana's Department of Child Services, with Accenture, piloted its VR training and evaluation system for child welfare caseworker candidates.
How it is deliveredMoth+Flame says the job previews are delivered as immersive VR simulations.
VR headset: yes; Desktop or browser: not published; Mobile: not published; Offline: not published
Assessment and analyticsMoth+Flame says the system combines realistic job previews with behavioral analytics and predictive insight, giving managers objective data on which candidates are likely to thrive.
AI featuresMoth+Flame says its platform includes AI-assisted content generation that builds VR scenarios from natural-language prompts.
Notable customers and programsMoth+Flame's case study says first-year turnover in the Indiana Department of Child Services pilot fell from 53% to 19%.
How to buyMoth+Flame says it is available through SBIR Phase III, GSA IDIQ and DLA TLS, with headquarters buying platform access and units licensing content and headset support.

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Skilled trades and workforce training

Products named: Maintenance training platform

What they offerMoth+Flame offers VR trades and maintenance training, such as pipefitting and welding, built on the platform it uses for aircraft maintenance procedures, with training generated with AI from an employer's own material.
Who they serveMoth+Flame says its maintenance training serves new maintainers, maintainers who are cross-training and those preparing for certifications.
How it is deliveredMoth+Flame says its maintenance training runs on a headset, desktop or mobile, with offline capability for air-gapped sites.
VR headset: yes; Desktop or browser: yes; Mobile: yes; Offline: yes
Assessment and analyticsMoth+Flame says real-time dashboards track individual and team progress, error rates and procedural proficiency.
AI featuresMoth+Flame says trade-specific training is generated with AI from the employer's own material, and that a pipefitting module was built in about a day.
Notable customers and programsNot published.
How to buyMoth+Flame says it is available through SBIR Phase III, GSA IDIQ and DLA TLS, with headquarters buying platform access and units licensing content and headset support.

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Sources

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  2. About: Improving Performance for 30,000+ Team Members. Moth+Flame. Retrieved October 21, 2026.
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  4. Training Library: Sexual Assault Prevention & Response. Moth+Flame. Retrieved October 21, 2026.
  5. Training Library: Foundational Skills. Moth+Flame. Retrieved October 21, 2026.
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