After a visit last May to the Pilot Training Next (PTN) facility in Austin, Texas, and facing a pilot shortage, the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force is taking innovation to the next level with the inclusion of a student and an instructor pilot in the second iteration of the...
The investment into the Whinny Hill, Catterick, training area’s urban operations training facility has created a more challenging training environment for the armed forces and emergency services personnel who use it. The upgrade has created a more realistic environment for troops carrying out modern day military training in the...
Sponsored Content You’re Invited: You are invited to participate in the 3rd annual Military Virtual Training & Simulation Summit, occurring on May 22-23, 2019 at the Mary M Gates Learning Center in Alexandria, VA. This year’s summit is designed to bring together senior DoD officials, military leaders, academia and...
MS&T Europe Editor Dim Jones’ unique insight. Six months after it was planned for a contract award and less than a year from when the programme was to have commenced training, the UK MoD announced that it has suspended its Air Support for Defence Operational Training (ASDOT programme) without...
Meggitt Training Systems is fulfilling five delivery orders that form part of a vital U.S. Army combat skills training program for American and allied warfighters. The $4.26-million in orders, awarded by Tank-automotive & Armaments Command during the latter half of 2018 and being installed in 2019, are part of...
Soldiers from the Wyoming Army National Guard's C Company, 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment (Forward) were the first to try out the new test at Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center as part of pre-deployment training that will require them to conduct the proposed analysis two more times this year.
U.S. Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) airman participated with the Royal Thai Air Force Combat Control Team (CCT) in the Cope Tiger 2019 exercise. The opportunity for the two TACPs from the 116th Air Support Operations Squadron from the Washington Air National Guard, to execute a close air support...
Epic Games has awarded TrianGraphics as one of the final recipients of the Unreal Dev Grants, a $5-million fund supporting developers working with Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). This last round of grants spans well over a dozen projects, totaling $500,000 in no-strings-attached financial assistance. TrianGraphics is developing an export...
On March 19th, 2019, Pinnacle Solutions Inc. was awarded the $533-million cost-plus-fixed-fee Unmanned Aircraft Systems Instruction and Mission Support (UAS IMS) contract by the U.S. Army Contracting Command in Orlando, Florida. Under this contract, Pinnacle will provide UAS instruction, maintenance, logistics support, prescribed load list (PLL), flight line operations...