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CAE Expands to New Facility in UAE

March 13, 2017

CAE’s Defence and Security business unit expanded its operations in the United Arab Emirates by moving to new facilities in Abu Dhabi. The offices in Abu Dhabi will house staff from CAE and CAE Maritime Middle East LLC, CAE's local UAE-based company that is serving as the prime contractor and...

U.S. - Japanese Forces Train Together During 'Forest Light' Exercise

March 13, 2017

Halldale Industry Reporter

United States Marine Corps and Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces conducted aerial integration training using the Marines’ MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft and Japanese CH-47 Chinook helicopters during exercise Forest Light 17-1 in the Soumagahara training area of Gunma prefecture, Japan on March 10, 2017. This portion of the exercise familiarized both nations'...

L3 Chosen by HNA Group to Supply Multiple FFSs

March 10, 2017

Halldale Industry Reporter

L3 Technologies and HNA Group L3 Technologies won a contract worth more than $115 million from HNA Group’s Hainan Sky Plumage Flight Training Co., Ltd, to provide 11 full flight simulators (FFS) and auxiliary training equipment over the next 18 months. L3 Commercial Training Solutions (L3 CTS) will deliver RealitySeven...

Kuwait Ministry of Defence Appoints Aviation Training Provider

March 9, 2017

Fiona Greenyer

The Kuwait Ministry of Defence has appointed the Australian College of Kuwait and its partners Airways International Ltd. (NZ) and 3SDL (UK) as its training providers. The Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) will be responsible for overall training management along with engineering and flight training programmes while Airways will be...

Sikorksy Announces Ab Initio Pilot Training with Bristow Group

March 9, 2017

Fiona Greenyer

Sikorksy and Bristow Group are working to enter into a long-term agreement that establishes Bristow as Sikorsky's preferred supplier for ab initio pilot training for Sikorsky aircraft customers at Bristow Academy. The intent of the agreement is to allow Sikorsky BlackHawk, S-70i, S-92, S-76 and Light Helicopter customers to complete...

Sonalysts, Inc. Wins $14 Million Air Force Satellite Operator Training Contract

March 9, 2017

Fiona Greenyer

Sonalysts, Inc. has been awarded a $14 million contract to develop two Standard Space Trainer, or SST, variants, for Air Force operators of the Milstar and the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite communication systems, both of which are elements of the overall Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) system. The two...

CAE MQ-1 Predator Instructor Pilot Participates in Final Flight at Holloman AFB

March 8, 2017

Halldale Industry Reporter

One of CAE USA's senior instructor pilots on the MQ-1 Predator remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) recently participated as one of the aircrew during the ceremonial "final flight" of the MQ-1 Predator at Holloman Air Force Base (AFB) in New Mexico. In total, seven pilots and seven sensor operators participated in...

BISim Announces Release of VBS IG V17.1

March 8, 2017

Fiona Greenyer

Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) has released a new version of VBS IG, which shares a common baseline with Virtual Battlespace 3 (VBS3) and inherits the many improvements of the latest version of VBS3. VBS IG provides common visualization technology for the land, sea and air training domains with a highly...

SimCentric Technologies Opens North America Office

March 7, 2017

Halldale Industry Reporter

SimCentric Technologies has opened a North American Office in Fayetteville, North Carolina to enhance the engagement, responsiveness, program support and collaborative teaming capacity for its military and industry partners. The company has named Lee Power as its new Senior Director – North America, and head of U.S.-based operations. Power had...

ETPS Awarded Approved Training Organisation Status

March 7, 2017

Fiona Greenyer

The Empire Test Pilots' School (ETPS) has been recognised by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) as an Approved Training Organisation (ATO), certified to train test pilots to civil standards. The accreditation means ETPS is one of three schools in the world, and the first in the UK, able to...