Bluedrop Performance Learning (Bluedrop) and its subsidiary Bluedrop Training & Simulation will deliver another Hoist Mission Training System (HMTS) to the Royal Canadian Air Force 19 Wing Comox in addition to a similar CH-148 Cyclone simulator delivered to 12 Wing Shearwater in July 2018. The immersive virtual reality simulator...
A new Directorate of Simulation (DOS) was established at the Health Readiness Center of Excellence (HRCoE). The directorate is charged with coordinating and incorporating all medical simulation efforts across the full spectrum of medical and military operations. Key stakeholders were brought together for a Strategic Medical Simulation Synchronization Summit...
NATO’s multinational battlegroup in Lithuania began exercise Eager Leopard in Pabrade on 17 April 2019. The exercise mobilises around 650 troops, including Czech, Dutch, German and Norwegian forces. It provides an opportunity for the battlegroup to enhance its readiness, testing its ability to deploy troops and equipment. The battlegroup...
The DiSTI Corporation has released GL Studio 6.3. This latest release encompasses several new GL Studio features and GLS-Map Toolkit enhancements, and 50 additional GL Studio improvements allowing designers and developers to create 2D and 3D HMI/UI without compromise for aerospace, automotive, defense and medical markets. The features and...
Northrop Grumman Corporation has received a $46-million delivery order for eight Joint Threat Emitter (JTE) Units. This award is a part of the indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity JTE Enhanced Delivery Initiative contract awarded by the U.S. Air Force in December 2018. JTE is a mobile air defense electronic warfare...
On the eve of CANSEC, Canada’s global defence and security show, CAE announced it has been awarded a subcontract from Lockheed Martin Canada to begin work during the design phase of the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) ship program. During the design phase over the next several years, CAE will...
Trideum Corporation has been awarded a contract to support the U.S Army Intelligence Center of Excellence (USAICoE) at Fort Huachuca as a subcontractor to Jacobs JEC to provide training development and support for the Army and other Department of Defense agencies. Under the Huachuca Training and Support Contract (HTASC),...
The U.S. Army's new battlefield heads-up display, the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), will revolutionize the way soldiers prepare for future conflicts, the Army's vice chief of staff told lawmakers on May 9. "This is cutting-edge technology," Gen. James C. McConville said before the House Armed Services Committee's subcommittee...
US Air Force leadership has made a call to action for airmen to get innovative – to get creative, to take risks, to utilize all their skills and be unafraid to fail. Sheppard Air Force Base’s 365th Training Squadron F-15 avionics course accepted this challenge by training their airmen...
This 21 May, Lt. Gen. Dorothy Hogg, surgeon general, US Air Force, provided her leadership responses to diverse questions from Halldale Group Editor Marty Kauchak, on behalf of MST. The surgeon general’s insights are provided in entirety below. “…it is vitally important that our medical force receive advanced training...