Young people who have chosen to join the Army straight from school receive their initial training at the British Army Foundation College, some 3 miles west of the spa town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire. MS&T’s Dim Jones visited to observe what goes on there.
ST Engineering Antycip and Cervus have signed a memorandum of understanding, signaling to the market a new era of collaboration between the two companies and a further integration of their complementary business models.
Cubic Defence UK, operating as part of Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions (CMPS), was awarded a contract extension to continue to support training for the British Army.
Elbit Systems UK has successfully upgraded its Interim Combined Arms Virtual Simulation [Deployable] (ICAVS(D)) system with an advanced simulation software called Defence Virtual Simulation 2 (DVS2). This is the first complex British Army training capability to be fully integrated with DVS2, which utilises Bohemia Interactive Simulations’ VBS4, VBS Blue Image Generator and One World Terrain.
A suite of simulators, which can an immerse soldiers into a virtual battlefield to provide critical mission readiness training to British Army forces, has so far trained over 125,000 troops.
The Ministry of Defence has awarded BAE Systems and Pitch Technologies UK a contract to support the British Army to deliver a new virtual training programme.
The UK MoD has activated the option for Hadean to continue developing the capabilities of Cloud-distributed simulation for the British Army Collective Training Transformation Programme (CTTP) through Spring 2023.
Elbit Systems UK’s Interim Combined Arms Virtual Simulation (Deployable) (ICAVS(D)) has proved its agility and highly deployable capabilities on British Army exercises in Germany and Estonia after 8 months in service.
Hadean is set to collaborate with Microsoft and power the digital transformation of the defence industrial base with scalable, interoperable, and secure cloud-based military training capabilities.