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.
Airborne Tactical Advantage Company, part of the Textron Systems segment of Textron Inc, has been selected to provide two U.S. Air Force bases with adversary air live training under the Combat Air Forces Contracted Air Support program.
More than 4,000 participants from the US and ally and partner nations will participate in Saber Junction 20 at the US Army’s Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels training areas from 3-27 August, 2020.
Street Smarts VR has announced a contract with US Air Force Global Strike Command Security Forces to support the adoption of innovative commercial technologies for military use.
Centrik has been selected by QinetiQ to provide comprehensive operational management support to the Empire Test Pilots’ School as part of its complex civilian and military flight test training programmes.
Vuzix Corporation has delivered a customized commercial and defense avionics waveguide-based head mounted display system to a global Tier-1 Aerospace firm as part of the work effort associated with the fourth phase of product development for this customer.
Boeing will provide aircrew training support for the Strategic Airlift Capability’s multinational fleet of C-17 aircraft under a new U.S. Air Force Foreign Military Sale contract for a C-17 Weapon System Trainer (WST) that will be stationed at Pápa Air Base, Hungary.
Advanced Simulation Technology inc. will provide simulated communication and aural cueing products and services to the UK Ministry of Defence Typhoon Future Synthetic Training program.