The Russian military recently concluded an exercise with air defence units from its Central Military District training to defend ground targets against Unmanned Aerial Vehicle strikes.
Defence and training support company, MASS, has launched an online training platform for its established cyber and Electronic Warfare training courses, offering an engaging learning experience in an accessible and Covid-secure way.
JANUS Research Group has been awarded a five-year Task Order to provide the US Army Fires Center of Excellence with Automation Management Services at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Group Editor Marty Kauchak provides a high-level glimpse of rapidly evolving defense S&T trends and programs in Asia.
Asian military services are using learning technologies to strengthen their readiness levels across their mission sets. At one end of the spectrum, new training and education systems are supporting the introduction of the fifth-generation F-35A to the Royal Australian Air Force. At the same time, regional defense forces are using wargame-like solutions to allow their units and staffs to prepare for tasks in and beyond warfighting domains. Further to these trends, the overarching, major development to which simulation and training (S&T) companies, beyond and from the region, are responding is the expanding, insatiable demand for products and services by diverse Asian customers – hardware OEMs, defense departments and other government organizations, and others. This feature article selectively reviews developments in the Asian Pacific S&T defense market space through the regional portfolios of four industry companies.
Improbable’s Defence business has been awarded a contract for a second year to further develop and extend a Single Synthetic Environment Technology Demonstrator for UK Strategic Command.