The U.S. Army and the General Services Administration awarded Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) a task order to provide support to the Maneuver Center of Excellence at the Maneuver Battle Lab in Fort Benning, Georgia. The one-year task order has four one-year options, and is worth approximately $52 million.
Cubic Corporation’s Cubic Global Defense (CGD) division won a $27 million task authorization to deliver Urban Operations Training capability into the Canadian Weapon Effects Simulation (CWES) environment. Cubic will equip Urban Operations sites at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Gagetown and the Canadian Manoeuvre Training Centre (CMTC) Wainwright, to meet the...
The National Modeling and Simulation Coalition (NM&SC), sponsored by the National Transport and Safety Association (NTSA), will hold its 2018 National Meeting September 25-26 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Interprofessional Experiential Center for Enduring Learning (iEXCEL) in Omaha, Nebraska. This meeting brings together defense and healthcare training and...
The United States Navy chose Xebec, a Pinnacle Solutions and CAE USA joint venture, as one of the small business prime contractors on the Training Systems IV multiple award contract. Xebec will pursue U.S. Department of Defense simulation and training programs and facilitate opportunities to help Pinnacle grow market...
Charles River Analytics Inc., a developer of intelligent systems solutions, won an additional two-year, $1-million contract from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to build behavior-modeling capabilities with its Modeling Operator Reasoning and Performance for Human-in-Control Simulation (MORPHIC). The MDA will use MORPHIC to create models of human behavior for...
QuantaDyn Corporation delivered its Joint Terminal Control (JTC) Training and Rehearsal System (TRS) to the U.S. Air Force Distributed Mission Operations Center (DMOC) at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. The JTC TRS device will be an integral part of the 705th Combat Training Squadron’s capabilities for the DMOC,...
FAAC Incorporated, a subsidiary of Arotech Corporation’s Training and Simulation Division, won a three-year, $1.9-million contract to continue providing software support and improvement efforts for the Taiwan Training Range. FAAC will deliver SimBuilder™ simulation software enhancements, new weapon models, on-site training and on-site support services and software sustainment. SimBuilder is...
The U.S. Army awarded Aptima a $168,000 Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement to develop a prototype methodology that aligns current Army virtual, small-arms, marksmanship training systems with real-world, live-fire marksmanship training. “The purpose of this agreement is for Aptima to develop a methodology that efficiently transitions soldiers from basic...
Ravenswood Solutions won a $2.2-million contract from the U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command for communications and test support services during the U.S. Army Operational Test Command’s (USAOTC) review of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV). Ravenswood will provide support via its proprietary Mobile Ground Truth System (known to...
Parsons Corporation, an engineering, construction, technical and professional services firm, purchased a number of MASA SWORD licenses to evaluate operations research and weapon platforms. Parsons is involved in research and development of mission-critical, next-generation technologies in the fields of engineering, integration, and simulation. The simulation is used to study the...