Cubic Global Defense (CGD) has been awarded a contract worth more than $61 million from the US Army Contracting Command to support rotational and pre-deployment training exercises at the US Army's Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC). The awarded amount is for the combined one-year phase-in and base period with four...
Pictured (left to right): John Givens, President of Bohemia Interactive Simulations, Inc.; and Rob Matthews, Strategic Advisor for Modeling and Simulation at Coe and Naylor Group. The National Center for Simulation (NCS) has announced its 2018 board of directors. Joining the board are two new members: John Givens, president...
Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim), a developer of advanced simulation and training software, has developed an augmented reality visual system for TRU Simulation + Training Inc., a Textron company, that provides a synthetically generated visual scene and supports a trainee’s interactions with the real world. Leveraging emerging augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR)...
Doron Precision systems, Inc. a company well known in the commercial trucking industry, will soon be applying its extensive experience in truck driving simulators to help train US Army Reserves (USAR) execute their missions inside and outside of the United States. The company was recently awarded its largest military contract...
Rockwell Collins will supply and install eight customized domes and 11 desktop trainer simulation solutions for the Australian Army and Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTAC) and Joint Forward Observer (JFO) communities. The JTAC/JFO simulators were built using Rockwell technologies and by teaming with Australian companies Virtual Simulation Systems...
MetaVR is at I/ITSEC in Orlando this week, showcasing its terrain and visualization products and technologies that support applications ranging from unmanned air system (UAS) operator and Joint Terminal Attack Control (JTAC) training, to high-speed fixed-wing cockpit simulators, littoral and marine-based operations, and individual/first-person ground-level urban operations. All terrain demos...
GlobalSim, Inc. has recently contracted with the United States Army Reserve Command (USARC) to provide multiple training simulators to be delivered in the first half of 2018. GlobalSim will deliver JLG Atlas II telehandler forklift simulators and Kalmar RT240 rough terrain container handler simulators. These units will be constructed at...
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...