Australia’s Department of Defence has selected Saab’s autonomous underwater vehicle system AUV62-AT, as the new intermediate Anti-Submarine Warfare training target for the navy. Mike Rajkumar reports.
Alion Science and Technology has been awarded an $896 million task order under the Naval Sea Systems Command SeaPort-NxG multiple award contract for the development, integration, management, and support of the Navy Integrated Training Environment.
Educating and training US Military health professionals in various service branches is an enormous, complex task as MS&T’s Robert W. Moorman discovered.
With the world now some months into the pandemic, MS&T’s Editor Andy Fawkes reports on developments in remote training and working during and beyond Covid-19.
“Remote Working”, “Working from Home”, “Teleworking”, once minority ways of working have in the space of weeks become commonplace and with some employees unlikely to return to offices anytime soon. In 2019 a UK ONS study reported that just over 5% of the total workforce worked mainly from home, and in June 2020 this had risen to 49%. Similar trends have taken place across the world because of Covid-19 and words such as “Zoom” have entered day to day language. Live events and exhibitions have moved wholesale online. The pandemic has accelerated the digitalization of the workplace and remote work has become a new reality, making connectivity, speed, reliability, cybersecurity, and undisrupted access essential elements of organizations. Further, a whole generation of children, future recruits, and employees, are experiencing remote education and schooling over an extended period.
Cubic Global Defense has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantitycontract worth more than $99 million to support the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division’s Surface Training Immersive Gaming and Simulations effort and the development, delivery and total life cycle support of a new virtual environment training system.
One of the most significant US Navy training projects in development is Carrier-Advanced Reconfigurable Training Systems. The project is designed to immerse the crews of this sea service’s carriers into next generation learning experiences. Group Editor Marty Kauchak reports.
Group editor Marty Kauchak provides an update on one successful pilot project which is advancing the business case to invest in AR technologies for US Navy learning audiences.
Basic Engineering Common Core (BECC) at Surface Warfare Engineering School Command (SWESC) Great Lakes is preparing sailors with the basic skills needed to function in a shipboard engineering environment.