The Defense Advanced Research and Planning Agency (DARPA) selected Aptima for its Agile Teams program, awarding the company with a multi-year contract worth an estimated $3.5 million. Aptima and partners, Professor Julie Shah of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Professor Krishna Pattipati of the University of Connecticut and Sophia...

SCALABLE Network Technologies was awarded an independent SBIR Phase II Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) contract to support enhancements to the Joint Tactical Radio Network Emulator (JNE). This is a follow-up upon another SCALABLE contract from the Army and Navy Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) efforts. "This contract award is...

Thales is investing in two new facilities in the U.K. dedicated to testing and training of autonomous systems. One will be based in West Wales and the other in South-West England. The company is investing a total of £7 million ($9.2 million) across the two regions, which will sustain around...

"The new record for visitors and the number of exhibitors, as well as the renewed increase in internationality impressively underline the status of gamescom as the world's largest event revolving around computer and video games." This is how Felix Falk, managing director of the BIU, the association of the German...

NATO is calling on NSC, the training and simulation consultancy company, to support projects in The Hague and Le Spezia. The company’s principal operational analyst, Chris Gray, is working with the NATO Communication and Information Agency team to quantify the military assets and efforts required from each member nation. Gray...

U.S. Navy has begun to use MetaVR visuals in its Combined Arms Virtual Environment (CAVE) training dome and combat systems. The CAVE system uses a large field-of-view partial dome display for land and sea-based training, for individual and team exercises. MetaVR’s business partner Battlespace Simulations (BSI) installed the latest CAVE...

Bohemia Interactive Simulations is releasing the latest version of Virtual Battlespace Image Generator, or VBS IG, its computer image generation software on September 8, 2017. The update will integrate with existing host software using the CIGI standard. Users can build databases with VBS IG with standard geographic information systems software,...