Organisers of IT²EC have postponed next month's event in London because of the COVID-19 outbreak. "The UK and other global Governments have this week considerably strengthened their advice in relation to the current coronavirus outbreak, and are now recommending that businesses and individuals take steps to reduce all forms...
Exercise Phoenix Express 2020 (OE20) has been cancelled in response to the global effort to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), while minimizing exposure of U.S. and partner nation service members to this virus. Image credit: AFRICOM The U.S. routinely exercises with partners in Africa to build...
After careful consideration and coordination with exercise participants and African host nation partners, U.S. Africa Command’s Exercise African Lion 2020 has been cancelled. Image credit: DVIDS Out of an abundance of caution, the decision to cancel the exercise was made based on international travel restrictions associated with the novel...
Exercise Defender-Europe 20 will reduce in size and scope because of the COVID-19 outbreak and recent guidance by the U.S. Secretary of Defense. As of March 13, all movement of personnel and equipment from the United States to Europe ceased. The U.S. Army said the health, safety and readiness...
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is exploring how telexistence capabilities can benefit U.K defence and security. The MOD said it wants to better understand the technology readiness level to inform future investment. It wants solutions that allow users to interact with or immerse themselves in a remote location as if...
Throughout the year, MS&T’s Dim Jones has been following the Course of 2019 through the Empire Test Pilots’ School (ETPS) at MoD Boscombe Down, the first involving both a new syllabus and a new aircraft fleet.
It is with much regret that we announce the postponement of this year's World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) in Orlando, Florida (due to take place 28-30 April 2020). We know that this will come as a disappointment to many who, just a few days ago, expressed their desire that...
The Connecticut Air National Guard's 103rd Airlift Wing displayed its ability to quickly deploy in the event of a short-notice wartime tasking during a large-scale readiness exercise March 2-5, 2020. The scenario involved airmen from around the base and tasked members from the 103rd Maintenance Group to generate a...
Inzpire Limited’s Collective Training Division has recently delivered the final Exercise IRON DRAGON under the Distributed Synthetic Air and Land Training (DSALT) programme. Since 2017, Inzpire’s synthetic training experts have delivered three iterations of the week-long IRON DRAGON exercise, providing divisional level training at the Air Battlespace Training Centre...