The United Kingdom is investing almost £120 million in the country’s Defence Air Power with two contracts focused on maintaining battle proven aircraft and training the next generation of fast jet pilots, according to Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon. The contracts will help the RAF to continue to perform at...
Aptima named Dr. Douglas Maxwell as a Senior Research Engineer in its Learning & Training Systems Division. Maxwell’s expertise includes a practical background of custom virtual reality hardware interfaces, scientific visualization, games for training, and simulation based training systems. He has also conducted large scale training effectiveness studies with hundreds...
Elbit Systems has completed the first phase of a next generation development by linking two air training simulators, in remote locations, via a cloud-based simulation environment by providing a common Synthetic Natural Environment (SNE). The company has developed the ability to connect simulators through a secure simulation cloud, using standard...
Explotrain®LLC is taking the defensive response to the emerging drone threat straight to the troops with their development of a realistic drone based IED simulation and training system. The company says its ExploDrone is the first and only functional drone and simulated IED integrated device, and it addresses the vital...
The Paris-based Modelling and Simulation Group has just opened the online registration for its Annual Simulation Symposium, to be held on 19 and 20 October 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. These annual events are intended to provide an overview of current NATO M&S developments and employments. The theme of this year's...
The first class of six United States Army students to go through the new Initial Entry Fixed-Wing (IEFW) course at CAE's Dothan Training Center in Alabama have graduated and are now fixed-wing Army aviators. The six students were part of the first class ever for the Initial Entry Fixed-Wing training...
The NATO Modelling and Simulation Group has informed the simulation community about the most recent start of an activity dubbed "NATO Modelling and Simulation Professional Corps Development". Since NATO started using IT, modelling and simulation systems have provided support to the alliance for training, education, decision-making, procurement, concept development and...
Diamond Visionics released GenesisRTX version 10.5.2 that includes technology upgrades and feature enhancements to its high-fidelity and higher quality visuals. GenesisRTX 10.5.2 includes Zero Latency Entity Tracking in the Out-The-Window mode or the Non-ITAR GenesisSN EO/IR/NVG among the feature updates. New Tracking Features such as: CIGI Sensor Control - Track...
Défense Conseil International (DCI), the reference operator of the French Ministry of Defence for the transfer of military know-how to international partners, is currently preparing 16 Saudi cadets - two classes of eight trainees - at its International Academic and Aeronautical Training Centre (CIF-AA). They will subsequently attend French military...
Embraer has delivered the first Phenom 100 business jet to Affinity Flight Training Services. The aircraft has been selected to provide multi-engine pilot training to UK Armed Forces as part of the UK Ministry of Defence's Military Flying Training System (UKMFTS) programme. The contract with Affinity comprises a firm order...