Marty Kauchak
Group Editor Marty Kauchak is a retired US Navy Captain, having served for more than 23 years in the surface warfare community. His insights and knowledge about training and simulation were gained through five operational assignments and major staff management positions. In addition to Marty’s military experience, he brings expertise as a former editor and writer for defence publications in the US and overseas. He also developed unique perspectives and knowledge about training during his time as congressional and media outreach coordinator for the US DoD’s Training Transformation Program. Marty is based in New Orleans.
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While S&T community members have noted that some of the hardware and software look familiar among previously presented vignettes and use cases, there have been other points of intersection – for instance, the disparate communities’ common embrace of technologies to allow individuals to learn and rehearse skills more efficiently and effectively in terms of safety, course completion time and other metrics. 5 February 2024
This is the second article on the accelerating pace of change in the naval and commercial maritime learning communities. The second article in this series provides vital insights from the International Maritime Organization on the imperative to advance learning throughout that commercial seafaring community and offers a glance at the technologies being brought to bear in this sector’s learning activities. 31 January 2024
Followers of MS&T will recall the US Marine Corps’ focus on elevating its learning (training and education) enterprise in policy and beyond, with increased focused investments in these budget areas. One quickly evolving training system program being eyed for service use is the Marine Corps Training Instrumentation System. 29 January 2024
In an announcement that is rippling through governments in and beyond NATO, senior NATO officials said the organization will launch its biggest military exercises in decades the week of this January 22. 22 January 2024
Airlines for America (A4A) President and CEO Nick Calio’s comments to the Aero Club of Washington this January 17, were nothing less than a clarion call-to-action for the wider commercial aviation industry and its many stakeholders in and beyond government. An extract of Calio’s comments is provided here. 19 January 2024
The US eVTOL community recently took an incremental, but significant step forward when AIR announced its next phase of participation in the US Air Force’s AFWERX Agility Prime Program. Group Editor Marty Kauchak looks at the importance of the move. 15 January 2024
Of particular relevance in the aftermath of the Flight 516 accident, JAL has stated its intent to maintain its current rescue training strategy and programs as configured for aspiring cabin attendants. Group Editor Marty Kauchak investigates. 11 January 2024
One of the indelible impressions of the simulation and training (S&T) community this author gained during 2023 was the quickening pace of lines being blurred between the military learning (training and education) enterprise and its counterpart organizations in adjacent safety critical training (SCT) sectors. 9 January 2024
This January 2 at 1747 local (Japan Standard Time) a Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900, operating as Flight 516, collided with a Japan Coast Guard De Havilland Canada Dash 8 and caught fire while landing on Runway 34R at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. The runway collision resulted in the deaths of five of the six crew members onboard the Japan Coast Guard Dash. All 367 passengers and 12 crew members on-board the JAL aircraft evacuated. 3 January 2024
During this first week of January 2024 many of our military and industry followers and readers from across the globe are returning to their workplaces from well-earned, end-of-year holidays. As the broad defense training enterprise did not rest in the run-up to 2024, here’s an opportunity to obtain an update on several, key community developments that gained our attention since mid-December. 3 January 2024
