ACME earned a new patent for the all-electric Gun Active Recoil (GAR) system, used by the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines; Canadian Ministry of Defense and the U.K. Royal Navy. The new patent highlights ACME’s realistic, full-force recoil at any rate of fire for actual or fully-weighted replica...
KBR’s global government services business, KBRwyle, won a $41.7 million task order to assist the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology Graduate School of Engineering and Management (AFIT/EN) in providing defense-focused graduate and professional, continuing education and research. KBRwyle will study, analyze, provide advice and develop materials to advance scientific...
Dignitas Technologies, Systems and Software Engineering was appraised at level 3 of the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) by JCCPI Consulting. CMMI is a set of process guidelines that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes that ultimately improve their performance. At maturity level 3, Dignitas...
The US Navy intends to move nearly all of the applications currently hosted in its data centers to the “cloud” by 2021. Learning content and training applications are included. MS&T’s Chuck Weirauch highlights an example.
Leonardo’s U.S. subsidiary, Leonardo DRS, won a $193 million contract to provide active protection systems for U.S. Army tanks. Leonardo DRS will deliver TROPHY active protection systems, countermeasures and maintenance kits to the Army for its new Abrams tanks. TROPHY proactively detects, locates and neutralizes anti-armor threats by increasing platform...
Charles River Analytics, a developer of systems solutions, will design, develop and evaluate swarm tactics, primitives and algorithms that support warfighters in urban operations for DARPA’s (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program. A swarm is a conflict based on simultaneous attacks from numerous directions. Under its...
VirTra, a provider of training simulators for the law enforcement, military, educational and commercial markets, won $1.15 million in new contracts from three United States law enforcement agencies. The Dallas, Texas Police Department, the San Francisco, California Police Department and the Southern Desert Regional Police Academy (SDRPA) in Las Vegas,...
AEgis Technologies won the U.S. Army’s Synthetic Environment Core (SE Core) program contract as a subcontractor to Leidos. This five-year, $210,000,000 program enables an interoperable Synthetic Environment (SE) for simulation and training programs. The SE Core program focuses on delivering software to enable a common correlated SE for Warfighters to...
The Norwegian Defence Material Agency’s (NDMA) Norwegian Air Ground Operations School (AGOS) began training with Fidelity’s Joint Fires Advanced Training System (JFATS) simulator for its Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) and Joint Fires Observer (JFO) training programs. Fidelity says this makes Norwegian AGOS the most technically sophisticated Joint Fires Center...
4C Strategies launched Exonaut Simulation Extension (ESE)®, that lets Exonaut exercise management tools control connected simulators and C2 systems, resulting in a step change in exercise management and a reduction of the manpower required in the exercise control (EXCON) organization. The Exonaut® software suite is used to build, verify, track...