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...
The Boise State College of Nursing’s Simulation Team won the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) 2018 Frontline Simulation Champions Excellence Award for providing exceptional simulation education for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as education and consultation for faculty throughout the nation. The award acknowledges a...
Sidra Medicine signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Qatar University Health (QU Health) – Doha, Qatar, to offer clinical training and rotation programs for students from QU’s Colleges of Health Sciences, Medicine and Pharmacy. The agreement is an extension of the MoU that was signed to support the education...
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 University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), in partnership with Hawaii’s major teaching hospitals, is addressing the state’s worsening physician shortage by placing 240 doctors to work every year as trainees in its Graduate Medical Education (GME) program. As many as 80 percent of the doctors...
Northrop Grumman won a $128 million U.S. Army contract to continue providing support for the Army’s Mission Command Training Center (MCTC). The MCTC’s new program, Mission Training Complex Contractor Support (MTCCS - III Corps), provides mission command training for a range of unified land operations in an operating environment. The contract...
Kratos will unveil the first aircraft under a $34.5 million contract with the U.S. Navy to supply high-performance subsonic aerial target drones to deliver realistic anti-ship missile threat emulation on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at the McClellan Conference Center in McClellan. California. Kratos says the BQM-177A is one of the...
Toyoda Gosei and EBM Corporation in Japan developed a prototype “Super BEAT” surgical training simulator that can reproduce a heart beating with extreme accuracy – it’s an artificial muscle that uses e-rubber, a next-generation rubber that functions with electricity and mechanical force. EBM is a Waseda University-launched startup (established in...
The KeyW Holding Corporation won a six-year, multi-million-dollar Task Order as a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin on the U.S. Army Training Aids, Devices, Simulators and Simulations Maintenance Program (ATMP) contract out of the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO-STRI). KeyW will support the Army's "Soldier Systems Constructive...
Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s first class of students began classes July 2 at what the school says is the first engineering-based medical school. The school is a partnership between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Carle Health System. It’s goal is to create a cohort of physician-innovators...