The NATO Modelling & Simulation Coordination Office (MSCO) has issued a Call for Papers for the 2020 conference of the NATO Modelling & Simulation Group (NMSG). The Symposium will be held in Bath, UK from 22 to 23 October 2020, supported by the NATO Modelling and Simulation Group of...
In April 2019, MS&T published online an article entitled “The Brexit Impacts on UK-EU-NATO Training”, which subsequently appeared in Issue 2/2019. At that time, Theresa May was the UK’s Prime Minister, and Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty (UK’s withdrawal from the European Union) had been triggered, leading to...
Editorial Comment This is the first issue of CAT Magazine after another World Aviation Training Symposium (WATS), and as such it always poses what I call “the abundance of riches challenge.” With the enormous volume of information and insight that is shared at WATS, it falls upon this issue...
We will be publishing a full review of I/ITSEC 2019 next month but here are some takeaway highlights of the week. Rick Adams, Andy Fawkes, Rona Gindin, Dim Jones and Marty Kauchak report. Show Growth Held December 2-6, I/ITSEC 2019 showed that the Simulation & Training sector is vibrant...
MS&T Magazine’s awards for excellence in defense modeling, simulation and training were announced in September and presented during this year’s I/ITSEC. After a process that began in May of this year with the release of submission applications to industry, over 75 entries were received in six categories. Three top...
Three years ago, MS&T’s Dim Jones visited the Norwegian port town of Fredrikstad, at the southern end of the Oslo Fjord, and the projection arm of Barco, formerly projectiondesign (MS&T 2/2015). He recently returned to Fredrikstad to visit a newly formed projection company, Norxe. Fredrikstad is a somewhat unlikely...
As another year begins, and CAT Magazine’s editorial cycle begins anew, it’s apparent that the industry concern about the supply of qualified personnel shows little sign of abatement. In fact, this issue remains the primary concern of the aviation training industry generally. It is encouraging that public narratives around...
On invitation of the Austrian Ministry of Defence, the NATO Modelling and Simulation Group (NMSG) held its 2019 Conference in Vienna, Austria. From 24 to 25 October 2019, more than a hundred delegates from 24 nations got together in the historic settings of the Sala Terrena in the Academy...
On the afternoon of 16 June 2019, 11 historic Douglas DC-3 aircraft appeared in the skies over the German capital, Berlin. The flypast recalled the 70th anniversary of the "Berlin Airlift", probably the largest humanitarian mission ever. MS&T’s Walter Ullrich describes the original mission and the training required. Bureaucratic...
Despite its potential, virtual reality (VR) training in the aircraft maintenance domain is still maturing technology. The main barrier is the time it takes to create each task that has to be accomplished for training purposes. Mario Pierobon reports. “We have to understand that this is an extremely delicate...