Military services are pivoting to better operate in a what is increasingly referred to in defense and wider-government circles as the multi-domain operations (MDO) environment. Group Editor Marty Kauchak investigates this trend.
New products, how to be sustainable and find more partnerships, Rahul Thakkar, President, Bohemia Interactive Simulations, offered plenty of insight during an exclusive interview with MS&T Group Editor Marty Kauchak. Read the transcript or watch the conversation unfold here.
Halldale Group tracks the rapidly advancing digital twin sector, noting its integration in military acquisitions, training, and recent business developments.
Attendees at the February 6 AUSA Coffee Series featuring General Randy A. George, Chief of Staff, US Army did not leave disappointed. The Army’s senior officer covered a wide-swath of the Army enterprise’s portfolio, from vehicles to munitions. Of interest to MS&T were the Chief’s focus on the imperative to enhance, and even transform, missions for future operations – certain to generate ripple-effects across the Army learning (training and education) portfolio.
While S&T community members have noted that some of the hardware and software look familiar among previously presented vignettes and use cases, there have been other points of intersection – for instance, the disparate communities’ common embrace of technologies to allow individuals to learn and rehearse skills more efficiently and effectively in terms of safety, course completion time and other metrics.
This is the second article on the accelerating pace of change in the naval and commercial maritime learning communities. The second article in this series provides vital insights from the International Maritime Organization on the imperative to advance learning throughout that commercial seafaring community and offers a glance at the technologies being brought to bear in this sector’s learning activities.
Followers of MS&T will recall the US Marine Corps’ focus on elevating its learning (training and education) enterprise in policy and beyond, with increased focused investments in these budget areas. One quickly evolving training system program being eyed for service use is the Marine Corps Training Instrumentation System.
In an announcement that is rippling through governments in and beyond NATO, senior NATO officials said the organization will launch its biggest military exercises in decades the week of this January 22.
Airlines for America (A4A) President and CEO Nick Calio’s comments to the Aero Club of Washington this January 17, were nothing less than a clarion call-to-action for the wider commercial aviation industry and its many stakeholders in and beyond government. An extract of Calio’s comments is provided here.
The US eVTOL community recently took an incremental, but significant step forward when AIR announced its next phase of participation in the US Air Force’s AFWERX Agility Prime Program. Group Editor Marty Kauchak looks at the importance of the move.