The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM) set up the Air Force’s first operational training program to prepare Air Force mental health care providers, technicians and social workers to join Integrated Operational Support (IOS) teams at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The program opened in May to give...
Saab received an order from Boeing for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase of the T-X Advanced Pilot Training Aircraft. The T-X program is divided into multiple phases, and the order is for the first phase. The order is valued at MUSD 117.6. and will run until 2022. In...
Advanced Simulation Technology inc. (ASTi), under contract with L3 Technologies, provided its Voisus voice communication equipment for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Secure Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) Advanced Training Environment (SLATE) project. SLATE technologies integrate live aircraft, pilots in simulators and computer-generated forces to increase the realism and...
PULAU Corporation selected Bagira Systems to be part of Team PULAU (with PULAU Corp. as the prime contractor and its team of 15 subcontractors) to provide training and training services throughout the assimilation and operation stages of the Enterprise Training Services Contract (ETSC) from the U.S. Army's Contracting Command and...
REMBRANDT, BMT’s integrated navigation and maneuvering simulator suite, was awarded Class A, B and C certification from DNV GL, a global quality assurance and risk management company. This classification award verifies BMT as a quality manufacturer offering a simulator system that complies with STCW 78 and the DNVGL-ST-0033 Maritime Simulator...
Simjet Training Systems won a contract with the Commonwealth of Australia to provide the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) Aviation Candidate Management Centre (ACMC) with two Super Hornet simulators, support staff and other peripheral training aids. ACMC conducts National Aviation Motivational Programs to attract Officer Aviation candidates to consider the...
Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim), a developer of advanced military training and simulation software, won an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) extension from the U.S. Army to demonstrate technologies for a cloud-enabled, virtual world training capability to meet the requirements of the Army’s revolutionary Synthetic Training Environment (STE) initiative. The goal of...
Advanced Simulation Technology inc. (ASTi), a provider of networked voice, radio-over-IP and military training and simulation solutions, says its Voisus® product line was granted a significant U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) information assurance (IA) accreditation that gives ASTi’s Voisus products “Authority to Operate (ATO)” status in full compliance with the...
FlightSafety International named David Davenport and Ray Johns the company’s new Co-CEOs, succeeding Bruce Whitman, who passed away October 10, 2018. Davenport will also serve as President, Commercial, and Ray as President, Government and Manufacturing. In addition to serving as Co-CEOs, Davenport will continue to oversee all aspects of FlightSafety’s...
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc., a national security solutions provider, won $30-million contract scope increases for several of its existing training contracts with unnamed customers. Kratos Senior Vice President, Jose Diaz says with these awards, Kratos will provide training that will sharpen warfighter resiliency, increase real mission preparedness, improve...