MS&T Editor Andy Fawkes draws on the views of S&T industry leaders to discuss how the pandemic has accelerated existing digital trends and that this is the time to reimagine the management and delivery of simulation and training.
With the world now some months into the pandemic, MS&T’s Editor Andy Fawkes reports on developments in remote training and working during and beyond Covid-19.
“Remote Working”, “Working from Home”, “Teleworking”, once minority ways of working have in the space of weeks become commonplace and with some employees unlikely to return to offices anytime soon. In 2019 a UK ONS study reported that just over 5% of the total workforce worked mainly from home, and in June 2020 this had risen to 49%. Similar trends have taken place across the world because of Covid-19 and words such as “Zoom” have entered day to day language. Live events and exhibitions have moved wholesale online. The pandemic has accelerated the digitalization of the workplace and remote work has become a new reality, making connectivity, speed, reliability, cybersecurity, and undisrupted access essential elements of organizations. Further, a whole generation of children, future recruits, and employees, are experiencing remote education and schooling over an extended period.
Over the next three days MS&T will report on the Training & Simulation Industry Symposium (TSIS) 2020, starting Tuesday with the Air Force Day followed by the Navy Day Wednesday and Army/Marine Corps Day Thursday.
The current pace of innovation and change in the SCT community is unprecedented with technologies and ways of working that were hitherto slow to embrace becoming the norm. SCT's Andy Fawkes reports.
Our last MS&T was published at the end of February. Although we were already in the shadow of COVID-19 we could not know how the world would change in just a few weeks and its impact on military S&T.
Before vIITSEC takes place virtually this year, we are taking a look back at last year's conference. From life-size virtual helicopters to a haptic suit that lets soldiers feel faux gunshot wounds, I/ITSEC 2019 demonstrated the rapid evolution of high-tech training aides. Rick Adams, Andy Fawkes, Rona Gindin, Dim Jones, and Marty Kauchak report.