U.S. naval forces completed participation in a weeklong Oman-led naval exercise in and off the coast of Oman, 11 May, with forces from France and the United Kingdom.

QinetiQ Training and Simulation has been awarded a contract by the UK Ministry of Defence to design and supply a shore-based trainer that simulates the Platform Management System found aboard Britain’s fleet of six Type 45 Destroyers.

A new suite of navigation simulators for the Royal Navy will be rolled out by Kongsberg Digital this year as part of Project Selborne’s modernisation of Royal Navy training.

Team Fisher, the Capita-led consortium including Raytheon UK, Elbit Systems UK, Fujitsu, the University of Lincoln and several smaller British suppliers, has assumed responsibility for engineering and maintenance support of the Vanguard-class Nuclear Ship Control Trainer and the Role Performance Trainer.

Elbit Systems UK has officially started operating the existing Maritime Composite Training System in the next step of its Royal Navy Transformation programme within Team Fisher.

Elbit Systems UK has been selected to support in the definition and provision of an integrated training solution of shore-based simulators and training aids for the Royal Navy’s Dreadnought Crew Training programme.

QinetiQ has won a £6m, four-year, Vampire Phase 1 contract to support the Royal Navy’s future high performance Unmanned Aerial Systems operations.

A team of experts from QinetiQ and Inzpire delivered a Platform Enabled Training Capability concept demonstration to the Royal Navy.

Royal Navy and U.S. warships joined Omani hosts and France's Marine Nationale for the 27th iteration of Khunjar Hadd, Oman's largest naval exercise.