General Dynamics won a United States Navy contract to restore and maintain a satellite system simulator at the Naval Postgraduate School, Spacecraft Research and Design Center / Adaptive Optics Center of Excellence in Monterey, California. The simulator is a model of a Navy Fleet Satellite (FLTSAT) communications satellite that will...
Adacel Systems, a developer of air traffic control training systems, completed installation and site acceptance testing of an Air Traffic Control (ATC) simulation system and Intelligent Communications Environment (ICE) training system in Blida, Algeria. These systems will be integrated into the Algerian Air Force’s ATC training program and will give...
Presagis released the newest version of its modeling and simulation (M&S) software portfolio, M&S Suite 17, that includes hundreds of new features and enhancements to parameters, options and interfaces to improve user experience and help users work more logically with more flexibility. M&S Suite 17 – comprised of industry-standard software...
Applied Research Associates (ARA) won a United States Army Synthetic Training Environment (STE) contract to support the Secretary of Defense’s Soldier Lethality Initiative. STE is the Army’s vision for the future of soldier simulation training to make it more cohesive, efficient and cost-effective. STE will provide an all-in-one training solution...
The Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to provide its Sniper® Advanced Targeting Pod’s (ATP) for the QEAF’s Rafale aircraft. Lockheed Martin will provide the QEAF with pods, spares and deployment support for the Rafale – the 10th platform to fly with Sniper ATP. Sniper ATP...
The Swedish Air Force has selected Pitch Technologies’ Intuitech ACES as the synthetic fighter controller service to enhance the training realism and capability in the Gripen Mission Training System. ACES combines voice recognition and synthetic speech with a sophisticated behavioral model to replicate the behavior of a fighter controller. The...
The Royal Norwegian Navy (RNN) confirmed acceptance of the latest iteration of the portable DECKsim Virtual Reality (VR) trainer supplied by Cohort company SEA. The RNN have used a fully integrated Flight Deck Officer (FDO) simulator DECKsim for five years at their training establishment in Haakonsvern Naval Base, Bergen. The...
SCALABLE released new versions of QualNet 8.2 and EXata 6.2. The updated versions of the network modelling and simulation tools offer enhancements to existing libraries, additional cyber-attack models and traffic modelling tools. Users can visualize results in new ways, simulate the latest communications technology, import common traffic capture and network...
The U.S. Navy plans to negotiate a potential 10-year, $1.86 billion contract with Boeing for new and updated P-8A Poseidon training systems. Under the contract, Boeing will test and evaluate P-8A systems, hardware, software, courseware and subsystems. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract will include upgrades on aircrew and maintenance training systems...
Quantum3D, a provider of training and simulation solutions for government and commercial applications, released its Next Generation MANTIS (MANTIS NG) Image Generation Software that offers Common Database (CDB) compatibility. CDB is an open standard for scene content and is now an official standard adopted by the Open Geospatial Consortium. Users now...