In a normal year the MS&T team would attend conferences in person and report on the proceedings. This year, we have not travelled, but logged in. As well as congratulating the organisers for delivering the conferences in a whole new way, what did we learn from the conferences and the pros and cons of these virtual events?
The 492nd Special Operations Wing of the U.S. Air Force has implemented Britannica Knowledge Systems’ Fox to streamline and improve its training environments.
Group Editor Marty Kauchak provides a high-level glimpse of rapidly evolving defense S&T trends and programs in Asia.
Asian military services are using learning technologies to strengthen their readiness levels across their mission sets. At one end of the spectrum, new training and education systems are supporting the introduction of the fifth-generation F-35A to the Royal Australian Air Force. At the same time, regional defense forces are using wargame-like solutions to allow their units and staffs to prepare for tasks in and beyond warfighting domains. Further to these trends, the overarching, major development to which simulation and training (S&T) companies, beyond and from the region, are responding is the expanding, insatiable demand for products and services by diverse Asian customers – hardware OEMs, defense departments and other government organizations, and others. This feature article selectively reviews developments in the Asian Pacific S&T defense market space through the regional portfolios of four industry companies.
ST Engineering Antycip (formerly Antycip Simulation) has been commissioned to upgrade the projection system for two Tiger attack helicopter simulators located at a Military technical centre in Europe.
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corp. a 171 million USD modification to the contract for the U.S. Navy’s Advanced Helicopter Training System.
The first Unmanned Aerial Vehicle occupational qualification assessment course of the Chinese PLA recently got underway at the Ordnance Sergeant School of PLA Army Engineering University.
Improbable’s Defence business has been awarded a contract for a second year to further develop and extend a Single Synthetic Environment Technology Demonstrator for UK Strategic Command.
A new Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul facility for the Australian F-35 flight simulators’ ProSim projectors will provide regional support for the devices.
Boeing has won three foreign military sales contracts with the U.S. Air Force for training services and support in the Middle East valued at more than $800 million.