Defence and training support company, MASS, has been awarded the Joint Command and Staff Training (JCAST) contract for UK Strategic Command, worth in excess of £11 million across a two-year period.
Basic Engineering Common Core (BECC) at Surface Warfare Engineering School Command (SWESC) Great Lakes is preparing sailors with the basic skills needed to function in a shipboard engineering environment.
The Finnish Ministry of Defense has signed an agreement with Bagira to replace the current Blank Ammunition for combat exercises with the MAGNET-Lite magazine.
The National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA) is hosting Training Transformation in Light of Covid-19, a “Part B” webinar to its series with I/ITSEC Services Leadership on Wednesday, July 22, from 10:30 am – 11:30 am.
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a $64 million contract extension by the U.S. Air Force to continue as the Operations and Integration prime contractor for Mobility Air Force (MAF) Distributed Mission Operations.
Cubic Defence U.K., which operates within Cubic Global Defense (CGD), was awarded a contract worth more than $16 million to continue the support of British Army training.
CAE GmbH has been awarded a subcontract from Airbus Defence and Space to support the development of new and upgraded training capabilities for Germany’s Eurofighter program.
QinetiQ has been awarded a one-year contract, with an additional option year, by the Royal Canadian Air Force’s Air Warfare Centre to develop a roadmap for the modernization of RCAF Air Weapons ranges, which will enable the combination of live and virtual environments for collaborative team training.
MS&T Europe Editor Dim Jones reports on Project Gladiator, the UK’s networked air collective training, capability development, and mission preparation initiative.
The mix between live and synthetic flying training has been a hot topic within the military aviation fraternity for some while now. The arguments for synthetic training (ST) have been well rehearsed: the reduced cost per training hour of a simulator as compared with live flying; the environmental benefits, in terms of both fuel and noise; and the improved longevity of an aircraft fleet resulting from reduced flying hours, fatigue consumption and attrition. To these, more recently, have been added some operational considerations.