Five years after a Category 5 hurricane tore through Tyndall Air Force Base on Florida’s Panhandle, Booz Allen Hamilton has been working to create a digital twin of the 14-square-mile installation.
Modeling, simulation and training has become one of Central Florida’s key industries, building upon the region’s strength in immersive technologies and defense.
At a small office park on the east side of Orlando, Florida, a group of companies that build simulators and display technology showed off something new. It was a behind-the-scenes look at the technology that produces some of the more impressive visuals that modern training simulators display.
“Before the war, everyone in Ukraine thought simulation was a game,” said Michael Obod, an entrepreneur whose Ukraine-based Skiftech builds tactical simulation programs. “But they are very serious now and understand how to utilize it.”
Marco Santana is the Founder of Orlando Tech News and former business reporter for the Orlando Sentinel. Halldale invited him to WATS to offer his impressions as a first-time attendee of the world’s largest civil aviation training event.
