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Andy is a chartered engineer and was a member of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors for UK MoD. He became head of simulation policy for the UK MoD 20 years ago, and Chair of the NATO Modelling and Simulation Group. In 2012 he became a training and simulation consultant for both government and defense primes. Recently he was the academic liaison for Bohemia Interactive Simulations and was their project architect for the British Army’s Virtual Reality in Land Training Pilot Project.

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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.   22 June 2020
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.   15 June 2020
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.   6 May 2020
New Editor Andy Fawkes and SCT colleagues deep dive into key technologies which are driving the transformation of training.   16 March 2020
MS&T Editor Andy Fawkes and the MS&T Editorial Team deep dive into key technologies which are driving the transformation of training.   24 February 2020
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.   6 January 2020
Safety critical industries and organizations face continuous, often rapid and disruptive change in an environment of increasing digitisation of activities, an unstable geo-political and legal context, and more digitally savant recruits and workforce.   9 December 2019