The MS&T Industry Awards for excellence in Defense Simulation and Training (S&T) are presented annually to companies and individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the training and effectiveness of US and overseas soldiers, sailors and airmen: our warfighters. 2018 is the 17th year of the awards but the first...
The U.S. Army and the General Services Administration awarded Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) a task order to provide support to the Maneuver Center of Excellence at the Maneuver Battle Lab in Fort Benning, Georgia. The one-year task order has four one-year options, and is worth approximately $52 million.
NYU School of Medicine is offering full-tuition scholarships to all current and future students in its MD degree program regardless of need or merit – to address the rising costs of medical education and still attract the best and brightest students to careers in medicine. NYU has yearly tuition...
Cubic Corporation’s Cubic Global Defense (CGD) division won a $27 million task authorization to deliver Urban Operations Training capability into the Canadian Weapon Effects Simulation (CWES) environment. Cubic will equip Urban Operations sites at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Gagetown and the Canadian Manoeuvre Training Centre (CMTC) Wainwright, to meet the...
Sponsored Content The British Army will host Medical Innovation 2018 at Edgbaston Stadium, Birmingham on 2-3 October. The conference, led by The U.K. Ministry of Defence’s will present the latest research on the patient and caregiver’s journey and innovation that seeks to improve the outcome for both. The conference will...
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base's new training facility in Edinburgh got a P-8A Poseidon simulator and training system to better prepare Australian Defence Force pilots and maintenance crews. The facility, which will be maintained and supported by Boeing Defence Australia, and the P-8A training equipment will deliver close...
FundamentalVR, providers of immersive training technology for the medical community, launched Fundamental Surgery in the United States, what the company says is a first-of-its-kind SaaS (software as a service) software platform that combines virtual reality (VR) with haptics (the sense of touch) to create a low-cost and scalable flight-simulator...
New York Medical College (NYMC) in Vallhalla, New York and Rome Memorial Hospital (RMH) established an academic affiliation designating the hospital as a teaching site NYMC’s third- and fourth-year medical students. The agreement outlines a mutual commitment to promoting medical education programs, meeting the medical care needs of the community...
Osso VR, a virtual reality (VR) surgical training technology company, launched its collaborative training feature that lets multiple surgeons train together in a single immersive VR space. The option to train collaboratively a moment’s notice offers improved learning opportunities for surgeons and surgical teams regardless of their physical locations,...
The National Modeling and Simulation Coalition (NM&SC), sponsored by the National Transport and Safety Association (NTSA), will hold its 2018 National Meeting September 25-26 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Interprofessional Experiential Center for Enduring Learning (iEXCEL) in Omaha, Nebraska. This meeting brings together defense and healthcare training and...