Educating and training US Military health professionals in various service branches is an enormous, complex task as MS&T’s Robert W. Moorman discovered.
With the world now some months into the pandemic, MS&T’s Editor Andy Fawkes reports on developments in remote training and working during and beyond Covid-19.
“Remote Working”, “Working from Home”, “Teleworking”, once minority ways of working have in the space of weeks become commonplace and with some employees unlikely to return to offices anytime soon. In 2019 a UK ONS study reported that just over 5% of the total workforce worked mainly from home, and in June 2020 this had risen to 49%. Similar trends have taken place across the world because of Covid-19 and words such as “Zoom” have entered day to day language. Live events and exhibitions have moved wholesale online. The pandemic has accelerated the digitalization of the workplace and remote work has become a new reality, making connectivity, speed, reliability, cybersecurity, and undisrupted access essential elements of organizations. Further, a whole generation of children, future recruits, and employees, are experiencing remote education and schooling over an extended period.
The U.S. Army’s Synthetic Training Environment Cross-Functional Team soon plans to unveil new labs where it can tap into the innovation of vendors that could one day improve individual and collective training.
British technology company Improbable’s Defence business has secured a contract with the British Army to supply its synthetic environment platform as a pathfinder technology demonstrator project for the Army’s Collective Training Transformation Programme.
Two games created for use in military or government training programs have been awarded for their excellence in the 2020 International Serious Play Awards Program.
Airborne Tactical Advantage Company, part of the Textron Systems segment of Textron Inc, has been selected to provide two U.S. Air Force bases with adversary air live training under the Combat Air Forces Contracted Air Support program.
More than 4,000 participants from the US and ally and partner nations will participate in Saber Junction 20 at the US Army’s Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels training areas from 3-27 August, 2020.