CAE won a contract from an undisclosed Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) customer to develop a Joint Multinational Simulation Centre. The Gulf Cooperation Council is a regional, intergovernmental, political and economic union consisting of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. CAE will provide the GlobalSim constructive...
Saab signed a SEK 47 million contract with the Finnish Defence Forces Logistics Command Headquarters (FDFLCHQ) to start delivering training systems to the Finnish Army this year. Saab currently provides the Finnish Army with expert training support for KASI, its mobile Combat Training Centre (CTC) by setting up, supporting and moving...
The U.S. State Department approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Bahrain of AH-1Z attack helicopters for an estimated cost of $911.4 million. The Government of Bahrain requested 12 AH-1Z attack helicopters, 26 T-700 GE 401C engines, 14 AGM-114 Hellfire Missiles, 56 Advance Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS-II)...
VirTra, Inc. has received a new purchase order for its training simulators under the previously announced indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with the United States Department of State (DOS). The new order is valued at approximately $1.25 million and is expected to be delivered in the third quarter of 2018.
CAE's Defence and Security business unit has expanded operations in Australia by opening a new office in Canberra, the capital city of Australia. The new office was inaugurated during a visit from the Honourable Christopher Pyne, Minister for Defence Industry, and Ian Bell, CAE's Vice President and General Manager, Asia-Pacific/Middle...
TerraSim, a company specializing in the development of rapid high-fidelity geospatial visualization, introduced TerraTools 5.6, its latest version of virtual terrain generation software. The new upgrade is available to all customers under active maintenance and support contracts. The software features a new plug-in for generating high-resolution VBS Blue IG...
Engineering and Computer Simulations (ECS) was chosen for maintenance training and modernization upgrade programs for the U.S. Army Program Executive Office - Aviation (PEO Aviation), in the Project Manager Cargo (PM Cargo) and Project Manager Apache (PM Apache) offices. ECS will build modernized training solutions to upgrade the CH-47F...
AMSO Forum agenda items typically include discussing and sharing ideas (as in above working group) on M&S tools, models and best practices, developing AMSO micro-investments, and other enterprise-level topics from the domain. Image credit: AMSO/Eugene Davis. Group editor Marty Kauchak provides an update on developments at Defense Modeling and Simulation...