Tenosar Corporation signed an agreement with the U.S. Army Contracting Command Orlando, and the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), to lead a Synthetic Training Environment (STE) project. The company is working with SimBlocks LLC to build the Globally Oriented Architecture Topology (GOAT), taking commercial-off-the-shelf solutions...

The U.S. Air Force will use the Advanced Pilot Trainer (T-X) at existing undergraduate pilot training bases, replacing the T-38C Talon. The Air Force expects to award a contract for the T-X in 2018, with the first aircraft expected to arrive at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph as early as 2022.

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory and computer science researchers at North Carolina (NC) State University entered an agreement to develop a program called DeepGen to generate customizable virtual training scenarios. The scenarios created by DeepGen will run on the Bohemia Interactive Simulations-developed Virtual Battlespace 3 (VBS3), a program already used...

Teledyne Technologies subsidiary, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., won a $45.7 million Task Order from the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) for missile defense modeling and simulation tools and software. Work is planned to begin immediately and could extend through July 2023. The task order is for Teledyne...

After a successful pilot program at the Liwonde National Park, the U.K. Ministry of Defence is deploying troops to the Nkhotakota and Majete Wildlife Reserves in Malawi to expand counter-poaching training. A conservation crisis around the globe is causing the loss of countless species with the illegal wildlife trade being...

Britannica Knowledge Systems, the Fox Training Management System developer, is restructuring its business to enhance both its product and customer responsiveness following customer feedback from the Britannica Users Summit in November 2017. A new Customer Solutions & Delivery (CS&D) department will merge from two separate units; Project Management and Customer...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected Northrop Grumman as a Phase 1 Swarm Systems Integrator for the Agency’s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program. The OFFSET program provides small-unit infantry forces with small unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) or small unmanned ground systems (UGSs) in swarms of 250 or more...