Following his Military Keynote address on November 28, at 2017 I/ITSEC, General David G. Perkins, Commanding General, US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) sat down with Group Editor Marty Kauchak.
Airbus Helicopters, Thales and Helisim are to join forces to construct a new, state-of-the-art helicopter pilot and maintenance crew training center in Texas. The Airbus Helicopters Training Center in North America will be located at the headquarters of Airbus Helicopters Inc. in Grand Prairie. Helisim, a joint venture of Thales...
The Army Contracting Command (ACC) in support of PEO STRI has awarded Gamesim an OTA (Other Transaction Authority) to research the development of deep learning techniques to extract attribution from point clouds of individual structures, especially buildings. The research executed under this OTA will allow more geospecific attributes to be...
The MASA Group has announced that, after an intensive selection procedure, the Belgian Army has selected MASA SWORD as the Constructive Simulation Solution. MASA SWORD will be deployed in the simulation centre at one of the biggest Belgian Army site in Leopoldsburg in the northeastern province of Limburg. MASA SWORD...
MS&T Editors relish the opportunities to engage with leadership in the defense community: to learn, network and engage. We value the opportunity to seek leadership insights about horizons, and challenges; we also value the opportunity to share these insights in both the magazine and this web site. During I/ITSEC 2017...
Experts from Inzpire Limited's Integrated Sensors and Systems (ISS) and Synthetic Training Divisions recently deployed to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, to support Exercise RED FLAG 18-1. Inzpire Typhoon Mission Data (MD) and Defensive Aids (DASS) technical and developmental subject matter experts based at RAF Coningsby's Typhoon Mission Support Centre...
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...