Thales has completed a full hardware and software upgrade of the visual system of the flight simulator for the E-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft deployed by the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier. The contract was awarded in 2018 by France's military aircraft maintenance service (Service Industriel de l’Aéronautique...
NATO's community met at the new NCI Academy to attend the fourth Education and Training (E&T) Conference last month. Over 185 people from 26 countries attended the conference, which was held at the Academy's new facilities in Oeiras, Portugal. The Oct 29-30 conference brought together participants from various NATO...
Red Lotus Technologies Incorporated (RLT) has received a contract for 11 Visualization and Signature Technology (VAST) Training Systems plus spares from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. The VAST training system provides automated assessment of handheld detection skill for Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and mines. Under this award, RLT will...
The VR/AR Global Summit in Vancouver is called “one of the year’s most anticipated conferences” by Forbes magazine. Halldale Group Editor Marty Kauchak ventured to the Canadian coastal city to mingle with the international cross-section of thought leaders and developers.
Rotorsim, the joint venture owned equally by CAE and Leonardo, announced the successful start of training on the NH90 Full Mission Flight Trainer (FMFT) following its relocation from the Rotorsim training centre in Sesto Calende, Italy, to a new training facility at Maritime Air Base de Kooy in Den...
Ravenswood Solutions was awarded a $62.9 million hybrid (cost-no-fee and firm-fixed-price) contract for a fully instrumented, highly realistic, and immersive training environment. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Orlando, Florida, received three bids for the contract. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion...
Charles River Analytics Inc. is working alongside The DiSTI Corporation to develop its Evaluation-Driven Active Guide for Learning Procedural Events (EAGLE). EAGLE is Charles River Analytics' just-in-time intelligent virtual trainer that helps US Air Force satellite communications students learn and remember complex procedures on the Hawkeye III Lite. The...
PLEXSYS announced the availability of Direct Link Interface (DLI) 6.7, a new version of it’s Tactical Data Link (TDL) gateway, specializing in support of Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) training environments. DLI 6.7 introduces several new features that allow users to quickly configure multiple gateway connections to translate between...
Ryan Aerospace Australia has been awarded a contract to supply more than 30 HELIMOD Mark III helicopter simulators for the US Army at Fort Rucker, Alabama. The contract is part of the Army’s “Aviator Training Next” or “ATN” Program, an experimental new way to provide helicopter pilot training during...
After three years of resounding support from commanders, senior instructor pilots, and master gunners, the Apache Gunnery Trainer (AGT) is heading to the flight line at Fort Rucker. Developed from previous AH-64 collective trainers sold internationally, refined to support the Air Cavalry Leader’s course and prototyped for the Synthetic...