Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force The Secure Live Virtual Constructive, Advanced Training Environment (SLATE) program of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Warfighter Readiness Research Division 711th Human Performance Wing (711HPW/RHA) at Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) is using some of its 24 newly acquired MetaVR Virtual...
Rapid technological advancements and a shift back to great power competition has created a higher demand for well-trained warfighters. The undergraduate combat systems officer schoolhouse at U.S. Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida is changing to meet that demand. The new training plan is based on a mix of historic...
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc. won a follow on task order by the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD). Valued at $17 million, it was issued against a U.S. Foreign Military Sales sole-source, three-year, single award indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide training-related products...
The U.S. Department of Defense announced that Pinnacle Solutions Inc. has been awarded a $20-million modification of a previously awarded contract for KC-10 training system. This modification provides for the exercise of the fourth year option and incorporates within scope changes to contractual requirements that result from a mutual agreement...
U.S. Navy sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93) recently completed training for maritime security operations in the Gulf of Aden during December. Chung-Hoon’s latest round of drills was a combined forces effort. U.S. Coast Guard and Army personnel came aboard as instructors to help teach new techniques...
Inzpire Limited completed deliveries of its GECO System to U.K. Ministry of Defence Apache, Chinook, Merlin and Bell helicopter forces following its competition for the Cockpit Situational Awareness Tool (CSAT) Programme. Since the contract award in May 2018, Inzpire has delivered GECO Systems and associated operator training for personnel based...
Northrop Grumman Corporation has received a $450 million, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract award to deliver Joint Threat Emitter (JTE) systems to the United States Air Force (USAF). The JTE offers realistic electronic warfighter training and provides a modern, reactive battlespace environment that trains military personnel to identify and...
The first Aero Vodochody Aerospace pre-serial L-39NG trainer and light attack aircraft made its first flight in December at Aero Vodochody Airport. The aircraft took off, climbed to 5,000 ft. and after 26 minutes successfully landed at Aero Vodochody. The maturity of the platform allowed the execution of some...
The first M-345 HET (High Efficiency Trainer), a new basic-advanced jet trainer aircraft by Leonardo successfully performed its maiden flight at Venegono Superiore airport in Varese, Italy. Lucio Valerio Cioffi, Leonardo Aircraft Division Managing Director, said: “Thanks to its performance and the integrated training system the M-345, which has...