The Italian Air Force recently accepted into service a Predator Mission Trainer at Amendola Air Force Base (AFB) in Italy. The trainer is for the Italian Air Force's Predator and was jointly developed by CAE and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI). Over the next several months during phase two...

UAE Air Force RQ-1E remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) aircrews have completed several courses for the past few months that are being delivered by CAE Maritime Middle East (MME), including an RPA Sensor Operator Fundamentals Course and RPA Aircrew Fundamentals Course. And, the first class of cadets at the Khalifa Bin...

Tenosar Corporation signed an agreement with the U.S. Army Contracting Command Orlando, and the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), to lead a Synthetic Training Environment (STE) project. The company is working with SimBlocks LLC to build the Globally Oriented Architecture Topology (GOAT), taking commercial-off-the-shelf solutions...

The U.S. Air Force will use the Advanced Pilot Trainer (T-X) at existing undergraduate pilot training bases, replacing the T-38C Talon. The Air Force expects to award a contract for the T-X in 2018, with the first aircraft expected to arrive at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph as early as 2022.

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory and computer science researchers at North Carolina (NC) State University entered an agreement to develop a program called DeepGen to generate customizable virtual training scenarios. The scenarios created by DeepGen will run on the Bohemia Interactive Simulations-developed Virtual Battlespace 3 (VBS3), a program already used...

Teledyne Technologies subsidiary, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., won a $45.7 million Task Order from the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) for missile defense modeling and simulation tools and software. Work is planned to begin immediately and could extend through July 2023. The task order is for Teledyne...

After a successful pilot program at the Liwonde National Park, the U.K. Ministry of Defence is deploying troops to the Nkhotakota and Majete Wildlife Reserves in Malawi to expand counter-poaching training. A conservation crisis around the globe is causing the loss of countless species with the illegal wildlife trade being...