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...
Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS) promoted Jeffrey Huber to Vice President of Operations for its Huntsville, Alabama office. Huber is a retired U.S. Army pilot with more than 24 years of aviation leadership; he joined ECS in 2017 as the Director of Operations. Huber is a subject-matter expert on the...
Saab received an order from the General Tadeusz Kosciuszko Military University of Land Forces (AWL) in Wroclaw, Poland to expand its GAMER laser-based training capability (LSS) with a new Laser Tactical Simulator (LTS) system. The LTS will help AWL increase the functionalities of its current GAMER live training system and...
Bruce Whitman, Chairman, President & CEO of FlightSafety International, passed away on October 10, 2018 at the age of 85. FlightSafety says Whitman will be remembered with great admiration and affection. He was highly-respected and held in the utmost regard by those in the company and the industry. Whitman joined...
TraumaFX, a division of Kforce Government Solutions Inc. and a provider of ruggedized human and canine medical training simulators, delivered its first phase of shipments for its Tactical Combat Casualty Care – Exportable (TC3X) medical simulators to the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI)...
VT MÄK added a new role - a Sensor Operator to its VR-Engage multi-role virtual simulator. VR-Engage lets you play the role of a first-person human character; a vehicle driver, gunner or commander; or the pilot of an airplane or helicopter – and now – a Sensor Operator. Using...
FlightSafety International and Global Simulation Incorporated won a contract to provide 10 Mixed Reality Training Systems for the T-38C program. The new training systems will be installed early in 2019 at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas, home to the 80th Flying Training Wing and the Euro-NATO Joint Jet...
L3 Technologies won a U.S. Army contract to provide its next-generation WESCAM MX™-10D electro-optical/infrared and laser designator (EO/IR/LD) sensor suite to support the Army’s Modernization Strategy. The five-year contract is worth up to $454-million, with an additional five-year option. The WESCAM imaging and targeting turrets are modernized Intelligence, Surveillance, and...