At the NATO Modeling & Simulation Group (NMSG) meeting in Vienna, Austria, the Chairman of the NMSG, Agatino Mursia from Leonardo, presented the NMSG Meritorious Service Award to Walter Ullrich. The prize was awarded “in recognition of his many years of outstanding reporting on Modelling & Simulation for Military...
Science Applications International Corp.’s Chitra Sivanandam, vice president for Analytics and Simulation, won the 2019 WashingtonExec Pinnacle Award for Artificial Intelligence Industry Executive of the Year for her work in data analysis, particularly capabilities based on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Since joining SAIC in 2018, Sivanandam has...
The DiSTI Corporation announced the release of GL Studio 7.0. The latest version of GL Studio offers workflow improvements, enabling customers to get their products to market faster with less rework and streamlines the User Experience (UX) in the editor and provides a drag and drop library of customizable...
Thales has completed a full hardware and software upgrade of the visual system of the flight simulator for the E-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft deployed by the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier. The contract was awarded in 2018 by France's military aircraft maintenance service (Service Industriel de l’Aéronautique...
NATO's community met at the new NCI Academy to attend the fourth Education and Training (E&T) Conference last month. Over 185 people from 26 countries attended the conference, which was held at the Academy's new facilities in Oeiras, Portugal. The Oct 29-30 conference brought together participants from various NATO...
Red Lotus Technologies Incorporated (RLT) has received a contract for 11 Visualization and Signature Technology (VAST) Training Systems plus spares from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. The VAST training system provides automated assessment of handheld detection skill for Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and mines. Under this award, RLT will...
The VR/AR Global Summit in Vancouver is called “one of the year’s most anticipated conferences” by Forbes magazine. Halldale Group Editor Marty Kauchak ventured to the Canadian coastal city to mingle with the international cross-section of thought leaders and developers.
Rotorsim, the joint venture owned equally by CAE and Leonardo, announced the successful start of training on the NH90 Full Mission Flight Trainer (FMFT) following its relocation from the Rotorsim training centre in Sesto Calende, Italy, to a new training facility at Maritime Air Base de Kooy in Den...
Ravenswood Solutions was awarded a $62.9 million hybrid (cost-no-fee and firm-fixed-price) contract for a fully instrumented, highly realistic, and immersive training environment. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Orlando, Florida, received three bids for the contract. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion...
Charles River Analytics Inc. is working alongside The DiSTI Corporation to develop its Evaluation-Driven Active Guide for Learning Procedural Events (EAGLE). EAGLE is Charles River Analytics' just-in-time intelligent virtual trainer that helps US Air Force satellite communications students learn and remember complex procedures on the Hawkeye III Lite. The...