NMSG Chairman Leigh Yu congratulates Ryan Philip Spicer (University of Southern California) on his award-winning paper. Image credit: NMSG. The 2017 NATO Modelling and Simulation Group (NMSG) Symposium on M&S Technologies and Standards for Enabling Alliance Interoperability and Pervasive M&S Applications was held on 19 and 20 October 2017 in Lisbon,...

Northrop Grumman Corporation won the U.S. Army’s Mission Training Complex Capabilities Support contract. The multiple award contract lets Northrop Grumman compete for more than $500 million in task orders to operate Army training centers across the nation. The work will primarily consist of training support – such as creating and...

Rheinmetall will be showcasing its simulation and training solutions this week at I/ITSEC 2017 in Orlando, Florida. For the first time, Rheinmetall will be presenting its “Osiris” command and staff training system to visitors and the general public alike. The company says Osiris currently numbers among the world’s leading software...

Presagis is introducing three new products to the training and simulation market at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) this week in Orlando, Florida. A provider of modeling and simulation software, Presagis is bolstering its line of sensor simulators with the introduction of Panorama – an image generation...

On October 18, Ravenswood Solutions and Lockheed Martin U.K. demonstrated how augmented reality can enhance training for forward observers. The demonstration, which took place at Defence Training Estate Salisbury Plain, U.K., connected Ravenswood’s Mobile Ground Truth System (MGTS) with Lockheed’s Joint Fire Training Simulator to combine virtual entities with reality...

Esterline Defense Technologies won a contract to supply critical sub-components for training ammunition on the U.S. Army’s new Day/Night/Thermal (DNT) 40mm grenade program. The multi-year contract was awarded by American Ordnance and General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems. The contract is the culmination of a five-year development program. Esterline Defense...

Meggitt Training Systems, a provider of integrated live-fire and virtual weapons training products and services, will introduce its immersive, multi-screen FATS® 300 system at the Interservice/ Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2017 at the end of November in Orlando, Florida. The debut follows the introduction of the FATS...

In the heat of a New Mexican canyon, US Army 10th Mountain Division soldiers trained to secure a critical infrastructure facility as part of Vigilant Shield 18. This exercise is one of the multiple scenarios under Vigilant Shield 18. It was designed to train soldiers to support local law enforcement...