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...

Saab signed a contract with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration, FMV, for training systems for the Swedish Army. The order is worth SEK 51 million and deliveries will take place at the end of 2018. Saab will deliver Manpack 300 training systems to most of the regiments in Sweden and several...

More than 11,600 military personnel from 17 nations are taking part in Exercise Joint Warrior for two weeks this spring, operating out of Her Majesty’s Naval Base (HMNB) Clyde, Scotland. The bi-annual exercise incorporates all three UK services as well as forces from 16 other nations including Denmark, Estonia, Latvia,...

Meggitt Training Systems, a provider of integrated live-fire and virtual weapons training products and services for armed forces and law enforcement, is one of five companies qualified to fulfill a U.S. Army combat skills training program for allied warfighters. The Army Targetry Systems program is worth $125 million and individual...

The U.S. Army opened a first-of-its-kind interactive training system developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation that supports the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) Satellite Communications program. The WGS constellation of military satellites delivers secure, reliable, resilient communications worldwide for the United States and partner nations. Soldiers training to manage and monitor WGS...

The US Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command - Fort Eustis has awarded Science Applications International Corp (SAIC) the Training Support Systems - Enterprise (TSS-E) contract to provide networked, integrated, and interoperable training support capabilities to active duty, reserve, and national guard soldiers, units, commands and installations located throughout the...

Orlando-based medical simulation company, SIMETRI, was recently awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to design and develop, and eventually commercialize a medical training device for shoulder dislocation and treatment. The Joint Articulation and Reduction Simulator (JAARS) Phase I contract was awarded March 19, 2018. When complete, the JAARS...

A Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) and U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) partnership chose Information Visualization and Innovation Research (IVIR) and SimQuest International to develop operational architectures supporting military medical training simulations. MTEC awarded project funding in the amount of $1,975,737 to IVIR and $1,997,385 to SimQuest.