MS&T Editors relish the opportunities to engage with leadership in the defense community: to learn, network and engage. We value the opportunity to seek leadership insights about horizons, and challenges; we also value the opportunity to share these insights in both the magazine and this web site. During I/ITSEC 2017...
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...
Northrop Grumman Corporation has received a $75 million Indefinite Deliver/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract award to deliver Joint Threat Emitter (JTE) support services to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The JTE offers realistic warfighter training and provides a modern, reactive battlespace environment that trains military personnel to identify and counter enemy...
Cubic Global Defense, a Cubic Corporation business division, won a contract to continue providing analytical support services to the U.S. European Command’s (EUCOM) Joint Training and Exercise Division. The company will manage, develop and deliver training and exercise services for EUCOM’s Joint Exercise Program (JEP) and components’ Title X exercises.
U.S. Army military police officers from Fort Riley, Kansas are training with the small unmanned aerial system (sUAS), RQ-11 Raven, to enhance their environment awareness in combat during the Allied Spirit VIII exercise in Hohenfels, Germany this week. Members of 287th Military Police Company, 97th Military Police Battalion and 89th...
U.S. Army and coalition medical personnel from New Zealand, Singapore and Australia took part in a real-world, medical-training scenario at Camp Taji in Iraq. The exercise helped train the participants to handle a flood of wounded patients coming into the Role Two Enhanced Medical Facility. Camp Taji is overseen by...
General Dynamics Information Technology won a $58.9 million U.S. Army Medical Command contract to provide customized medical training and exercises at more than 15 U.S. Army Reserve regional training-sites medical program locations throughout the country. For more than a decade, General Dynamics has provided mission command and integrated training support...
The U.S. Army awarded CALIBRE Systems a five-year contract worth up to $554 million to support its Training Support Systems Enterprise (TSS-E). Under this contract, CALIBRE will deliver a wide range of training services and solutions in five major task areas including Sustainable Range Program (SRP), Combat Training Center (CTC)...
CAE won a US Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) contract to provide a suite of Abrams M1A2 tank engine trainers. The company will develop two new M1A2 Abrams tank driver stations with live-engine maintenance trainers to support diagnostic and troubleshooting maintenance training tasks. Two...
Saab received an SEK 107 million order from the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINB) to upgrade the German Army’s vehicle simulators. Beginning this year, the company will provide new software and hardware for German Army vehicles and tanks operating the laser simulator BT 46,...