Marty Kauchak reports on President Biden's FY 2025 Defense Budget request, totaling $849.8 billion. The budget faces a complex path through Congress amid partisan tensions, with details on simulation and training outlined.
HII will develop, maintain, support and provide joint training in a synthetic environment across combatant commands, military service branches, federal agencies, academia, industry and multi-national partners.
The award follows a two-year selection process that included industry participation, a down selection for live solution demonstration, and a competition for a single-year development to the US Army.
Elbit Systems Ltd. was awarded $107 million contract to provide, operate and maintain the new Main Battle Tank simulation and training centers of the Israeli Defense Forces’ Armored Corps.
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center has awarded Engineering & Computer Simulations a Broad Agency Announcement contract for “Basic and Applied Research to Setup and Operate the Modular Medical Environment Testbed.”
Cole Engineering Services, a By Light Company, has been awarded an Other Transaction Agreement to deliver the United States Army’s Soldier Virtual Trainer.
PLEXSYS Interface Products, Inc. has introduced its StrataSim 1.5 software release and also welcomed recently retired Rear Admiral Dave Welch to its Board of Directors in March 2022.
MAK Technologies has unveiled VR-Vantage 3.0, a major feature release with improvements in visual scene quality, rendering performance, 2D and 3D informational graphics, and application programming interface simplification.