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The DiSTI Corporation cares about its customers, colleagues, and families and is ready to assist wherever possible to help facilitate a safer work environment. The company want its customers to know that support will remain uninterrupted, and customers can continue to contact support for any queries. DiSTI is also... 19 March 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic presents a new challenge for customers in the industry. VT Mak wants to do everything in its power to ensure that users can stay safe and productive at home during this difficult time. To facilitate this, MAK is providing free 30-day work-from-home licenses for its software... 19 March 2020
Quadrant Systems is celebrating the one-year anniversary of a Ministry of Defence contract award. The contract was for the supply of RAF Poseidon MRA Mk.1 Aircrew Currency Simulator Training and Engineering Refresher Courses at its Quadrant training centre near London Gatwick Airport. Together with the RAF, Quadrant has created... 19 March 2020
Design Interactive, Inc. has been awarded the DARPA GIST (Generative Immersive Scenario Testbed). This award is a very strategic win for DI. The scarcity of available content and knowledge of how to design value-added applications have hindered widespread adoption of XR technology. The Phase I project will facilitate automating... 18 March 2020
Edgybees has been awarded its largest contract yet by AFWERX, an innovation program within the U.S. Air Force. The contract will see Edgybees’ computer vision technology, in the form of its augmented reality (AR) software solution Argus, integrated with the U.S. Air Force’s systems to bolster situational awareness in... 18 March 2020
Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. (Pinnacle) was awarded a delivery order under the Computer Based Instructional Design (CBID) II Contract for the development of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Regulatory Development Program (RDP) Interactive Multimedia Instruction (IMI) as well as revisions to the existing Standardized curriculum IMI for the... 18 March 2020
Organisers of IT²EC have postponed next month's event in London because of the COVID-19 outbreak. "The UK and other global Governments have this week considerably strengthened their advice in relation to the current coronavirus outbreak, and are now recommending that businesses and individuals take steps to reduce all forms... 18 March 2020
Exercise Phoenix Express 2020 (OE20) has been cancelled in response to the global effort to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), while minimizing exposure of U.S. and partner nation service members to this virus. Image credit: AFRICOM The U.S. routinely exercises with partners in Africa to build... 17 March 2020
After careful consideration and coordination with exercise participants and African host nation partners, U.S. Africa Command’s Exercise African Lion 2020 has been cancelled. Image credit: DVIDS Out of an abundance of caution, the decision to cancel the exercise was made based on international travel restrictions associated with the novel... 17 March 2020
Exercise Defender-Europe 20 will reduce in size and scope because of the COVID-19 outbreak and recent guidance by the U.S. Secretary of Defense. As of March 13, all movement of personnel and equipment from the United States to Europe ceased. The U.S. Army said the health, safety and readiness... 17 March 2020
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is exploring how telexistence capabilities can benefit U.K defence and security. The MOD said it wants to better understand the technology readiness level to inform future investment. It wants solutions that allow users to interact with or immerse themselves in a remote location as if... 17 March 2020
Throughout the year, MS&T’s Dim Jones has been following the Course of 2019 through the Empire Test Pilots’ School (ETPS) at MoD Boscombe Down, the first involving both a new syllabus and a new aircraft fleet. 17 March 2020
It is with much regret that we announce the postponement of this year's World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) in Orlando, Florida (due to take place 28-30 April 2020). We know that this will come as a disappointment to many who, just a few days ago, expressed their desire that... 17 March 2020
New Editor Andy Fawkes and SCT colleagues deep dive into key technologies which are driving the transformation of training. 16 March 2020
The Connecticut Air National Guard's 103rd Airlift Wing displayed its ability to quickly deploy in the event of a short-notice wartime tasking during a large-scale readiness exercise March 2-5, 2020. The scenario involved airmen from around the base and tasked members from the 103rd Maintenance Group to generate a... 16 March 2020
Inzpire Limited’s Collective Training Division has recently delivered the final Exercise IRON DRAGON under the Distributed Synthetic Air and Land Training (DSALT) programme. Since 2017, Inzpire’s synthetic training experts have delivered three iterations of the week-long IRON DRAGON exercise, providing divisional level training at the Air Battlespace Training Centre... 13 March 2020
ASTi has formed a strategic alliance with Forcepoint to deliver an integrated cross-domain solution (CDS) for voice communications. The integrated CDS voice solution is the first of its kind, specifically designed for training and research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) environments. Through the partnership, ASTi and Forcepoint will jointly... 13 March 2020
The National Center for Simulation (NCS), located in Orlando, Florida, announced that Mary Trier, president and CEO of Capital Communications and Consulting, LLC, has been installed as the chair of the NCS board. In addition to Trier, three other board officers advanced: Terry Kohl (Leidos) as vice chair; John... 12 March 2020
Trials are to begin for a new virtual reality training platform for the UK Armed Forces, built on the same gaming engine as Fortnite. The new platform will use the latest advances in gaming innovation to improve training for personnel. It should make it more realistic, intuitive and immersive,... 10 March 2020
NATO exercise Dynamic Manta is wrapping up off the Sicilian coast. Ships, submarines, aircraft and personnel from nine Allied nations took part in the anti-submarine warfare and anti-surface warfare training. Submarines from France, Greece, Italy and Turkey under NATO Submarine Command took part. They joined surface ships from Canada,... 10 March 2020