Updated: 4/2/18 The U.S. Navy’s next generation destroyer, the USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001), completed acceptance trials after the U.S. Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey reviewed and evaluated the ship and its crew during a series of demonstrations that showed the ship’s construction and compliance with Navy specifications. Many...
Cubic Global Defense, a Cubic Corporation business division, won a contract to continue providing analytical support services to the U.S. European Command’s (EUCOM) Joint Training and Exercise Division. The company will manage, develop and deliver training and exercise services for EUCOM’s Joint Exercise Program (JEP) and components’ Title X exercises.
Ignition! – a joint venture between Sonaca Group and Sabena Aerospace – signed an agreement with BAE Systems to explore opportunities to work together on a range of activities, should Belgium choose the Eurofighter to replace its current F-16 fleet. A major part of the Eurofighter consortium industrial proposal is...
The Royal Norwegian Navy (RNN) is the first customer to order the upgraded portable DECKsim Virtual Reality Trainer from the Cohort plc company SEA. The DECKsim system replicates flight decks and land-based airfield environments to train personnel on aircraft handling procedures. The system can be configured for specific airframes, platforms...
Matrox Graphics released the Matrox Mura IPC 4K DisplayPort capture and IP encode/decode cards. The dual DisplayPort 1.2 capture boards feature 4K60 full color support to give systems integrators and OEMs the ability to seamlessly capture, encode, stream, record and decode demanding 4K and 60-frames-per-second (4K60) content. Available in passive...
Inzpire Limited designed and delivered the first Exercise STEEL DRAGON of 2018 at the U.K. Royal Air Force’s Air Battlespace Training Centre (ABTC) in January. The four-week exercise focused on Joint Fire and Air-Land Integration training for the Royal Artillery as a five-day activity that was repeated each week. Each...
The following is a continuation of the Publisher's note from the MS&T eNewsletter 2/1/2018 This week’s news contains a piece released in late December but it is worth repeating. The Air Force Association and Civil Air Patrol have linked to jointly promote flying careers to the next generation of recruits.
U.S. Army military police officers from Fort Riley, Kansas are training with the small unmanned aerial system (sUAS), RQ-11 Raven, to enhance their environment awareness in combat during the Allied Spirit VIII exercise in Hohenfels, Germany this week. Members of 287th Military Police Company, 97th Military Police Battalion and 89th...
Quantum3D developed a free augmented reality (AR), maintenance training app for use with an iPhone or iPad called Quantum3D Maintenance Trainer. The app comes with a demo that puts the user in the role of an aircraft mechanic training on the procedures for repairing a helicopter jet turbine engine. A...
The Air Force Association (AFA) is partnering partnership with Civil Air Patrol (CAP) to advance both organizations’ mission to advocate and promote aerospace education at the local, state and regional levels. “In an era so intensely focused on national security, it is crucial that our two organizations partner to make...