MS&T released the 17th Annual Industry Simulation & Training Awards program that recognizes the contribution of companies in supporting warfighter readiness across the current calendar year. There are five new award categories this year including Outstanding Innovative Product; Outstanding Service and Support; Outstanding Training System Integration Project; Small Business of...
Airbus Helicopters will offer its H135 helicopter as the solution for the U.S. Navy’s planned helicopter trainer replacement program. The H135 trainer aircraft offers advanced technologies that provide a platform for training missions for instructor pilots. As a twin-engine helicopter, the H135 provides a training environment similar to the Navy’s...
Systems Engineering and Assessment Ltd (SEA) led an industry team that delivered findings on the future of modelling and simulation to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence. The core Architectures, Interoperability and Management of Simulations (AIMS) delivery team of SEA, BAE Systems, QinetiQ and Thales conducted research tasks related to...
Cubic Corporation’s Cubic Global Defense business division and 4C Strategies formed a partnership to cooperate in the development and delivery of next-generation training and readiness capabilities. They will integrate products, services and solutions for shared customers and provide open and scalable training solutions with a focus on customer outcomes, rather...
QuantaDyn Corporation released QFires Portable, a ROMADS (Radio-Operator-Maintainer and Drivers) video receiver Emulated Military Equipment (EME) product. QuantaDyn says it’s the first EME device that lets users switch between different aircraft video downlink feeds during distributed and stand-alone simulation training. The QFires Portable gives students a familiar fielded-receiver interface. QFires...
Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim), a developer of military simulation and training software; reached an agreement with Pitch Technologies, a supplier of commercial tools and services; to bundle Pitch Talk with BISim's desktop training software products starting with VBS3. VBS3 is a desktop training package based on commercial video game technology.
Seaspan Marine entered into a five-year, multi-million-dollar agreement with SeaWays Global, a provider of marine training and tugboat simulations. SeaWays will provide competency-based marine training and tugboat simulation in support of the Seaspan’s ship escort, ship assist and towing services. The agreement includes the installation of a multi-console tugboat simulator...
Lockheed Martin received a $23.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy for follow-on production of Enhanced Laser-Guided Training Rounds (ELGTRs) to support the Paveway™ II Laser-Guided Bomb (LGB) weapons training. The award extends ELGTR production into late 2020. “ELGTR is the only proven low-cost, guided trainer for Paveway II Laser-Guided...
The Australian Army signed another two-year license agreement for the Titan Vanguard simulation environment it has been using for the past two years to have a synthetic environment in a variety of simulators across each of the three services. This new agreement places Vanguard in the heart of the Army’s...
Esterline Simulation Visual Systems, a business of Esterline Corporation, won multiple contracts from L3 Technologies to continue supporting the United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 Mission Training Center (MTC) program. Esterline has been supporting the program since 2012. The contracts include 99 latest-generation SIM7 high-contrast LCoS projectors with built-in image...