Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group One (SNMCMG1) completed training with the Finnish Navy over two days at the end of April. The Finnish Navy's Coastal Fleet held the International Mine Countermeasures Exercise in the Archipelago Sea, with participants from the Finnish Navy’s 4th Mine Countermeasures Squadron and SNMCMG1. The...
Christophe Salomon has been appointed Executive Vice President, Thales, Land and Air Systems, and he will also be part of the Thales Executive Committee. Salomon succeeds Alex Cresswell, who has been appointed Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Thales in the UK. Christophe, a graduate engineer of the Ecole...
To combat COVID-19, the U.S. Army Future Command's Soldier Lethality Cross Functional Team (CFT) repurposed a prototype of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS). The system is being employed now to rapidly assess the temperature of hundreds of soldiers each day as they prepare for training on an installation...
The Bundeswehr Technical Center for Information Technology and Electronics (WTD 81) recently upgraded the complex visual setup at its target simulation dome (ZSD) with the help of a collaborative team with members from project: syntropy, who was contracted to design, install and commission the new projection system consisting of...
Saab has signed a three-year contract with the UK Ministry of Defence for the provision of support and services to the Direct Fire Weapon Effects Simulator (DFWES) capability. The contract valued at 320 MSEK came into effect on April 1, 2020. DFWES is a laser based Tactical Engagement Simulation...
MS&T's Senior Correspondent Walter F. Ullrich interviewed Colonel Wolfgang Kralicek, Head of the Simulation & Training Equipment Section of the Austrian Ministry of Defence about the state of simulation and training in the Austrian Armed Forces.
The U.S. federal government awarded the Software as a Service (SaaS) deployment of Blackboard Learn — Blackboard Inc.’s flagship learning management system (LMS) — FedRAMP Moderate. This authorization makes Blackboard one of the only commercial off-the-shelf SaaS providers authorized in AWS GovCloud (US) as an Educational LMS. This newest...
This week, VT MAK would normally be conducting live demos from the excel center in London at ITEC. Due to Covid-19, that isn’t possible, so VT MAK is conducting the same demo via its lab in Cambridge and on the cloud via Zoom. Attendees can get a preview to...
NDIA is hosting vSOFIC from May 11-15, 2020. The virtual platform is for U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) leadership to share emerging requirements, challenges, trends, and capability gaps, and for industry to respond by describing existing and emerging capabilities. This new event will enable critical conversations and collaboration as...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) its Controller Training Solutions (CTS) contract to continue providing training and training-related support services to help air traffic controllers manage an increasingly congested national airspace and deliver a safe experience to U.S. air travelers. U.S. Air Force...