UAE Air Force RQ-1E remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) aircrews have completed several courses for the past few months that are being delivered by CAE Maritime Middle East (MME), including an RPA Sensor Operator Fundamentals Course and RPA Aircrew Fundamentals Course. And, the first class of cadets at the Khalifa Bin...
Tenosar Corporation signed an agreement with the U.S. Army Contracting Command Orlando, and the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), to lead a Synthetic Training Environment (STE) project. The company is working with SimBlocks LLC to build the Globally Oriented Architecture Topology (GOAT), taking commercial-off-the-shelf solutions...
The U.S. Air Force will use the Advanced Pilot Trainer (T-X) at existing undergraduate pilot training bases, replacing the T-38C Talon. The Air Force expects to award a contract for the T-X in 2018, with the first aircraft expected to arrive at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph as early as 2022.
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory and computer science researchers at North Carolina (NC) State University entered an agreement to develop a program called DeepGen to generate customizable virtual training scenarios. The scenarios created by DeepGen will run on the Bohemia Interactive Simulations-developed Virtual Battlespace 3 (VBS3), a program already used...
Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC) opened its Adversary Center of Excellence (ACE) at Fort Worth Alliance Airport in Texas. The center, also called ATAC-ACE, will include up to 200 personnel responsible for over 80 high-performance aircraft, as well as house ATAC’s upgraded Mirage 1 fighter jets through adversary air and...
A Precision Flight Controls and Ryan Aerospace joint venture developed a new, cost-effective helicopter simulator that just received certification as an Advanced Aviation Training Device (AATD) by the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). The simulator is reconfigurable between the Bell 206 and Bell 407. “This is a real game-changer for flying...
Pinnacle Solutions will support M1 Support Services as a subcontractor on its Fort Rucker Aviation Maintenance Services contract. The company will fulfill maintenance and logistical support service requirements for the Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command (AMC), Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM), Army Aviation Center. These support services will...
Teledyne Technologies subsidiary, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., won a $45.7 million Task Order from the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) for missile defense modeling and simulation tools and software. Work is planned to begin immediately and could extend through July 2023. The task order is for Teledyne...
After a successful pilot program at the Liwonde National Park, the U.K. Ministry of Defence is deploying troops to the Nkhotakota and Majete Wildlife Reserves in Malawi to expand counter-poaching training. A conservation crisis around the globe is causing the loss of countless species with the illegal wildlife trade being...
Britannica Knowledge Systems, the Fox Training Management System developer, is restructuring its business to enhance both its product and customer responsiveness following customer feedback from the Britannica Users Summit in November 2017. A new Customer Solutions & Delivery (CS&D) department will merge from two separate units; Project Management and Customer...