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Brad Thress, FlightSafety International President and CEO. Image credit: FlightSafety International. Brad Thress has joined the FlightSafety International company as President and CEO. He assumes this responsibility from David Davenport who has left FlightSafety. “I am honored to join FlightSafety International and look forward to leading this exceptional company,”... 17 February 2020
Alion Science and Technology has been awarded a $248 million contract for the U.S. Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE), Integrating Architecture Development. This contract has a 48-month period of performance. Alion will provide research, development, test and engineering to develop and integrate new and enhanced training architecture and systems... 14 February 2020
CAE USA recently achieved the AS9100 certification for its quality management system. AS9100 is the International Quality Management System standard specifically for the aerospace and defense industry. Steve Baigrie, Vice President, Operations holds the formal AS9100 certificate recently awarded to CAE USA. Image credit: CAE USA. The AS9100 quality standard... 13 February 2020
Gen. John M. Murray, Army Futures Command commanding general, visited the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center (CCDC SC) at the Natick Soldier Systems Center in Massachusetts. Staff. Sgt. Christian Lincoln-King (pictured here center) uses a Soldier Born Sensor System that enables Soldiers to gain improved situational... 13 February 2020
Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. (Pinnacle) was awarded the U.S. Air Force Simulator Lateral Axis Motion (SLAM) Engineering Change Proposal under the KC-10 Training Systems contract. The company has also been tasked with relocating multiple KC-10 simulators. Image credit: Pinnacle Solutions. The Pinnacle Team comprised of Pinnacle as the prime with... 13 February 2020
ITPS Canada has launched a division dedicated to tactical training with a major contract to train fighter pilots from the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF). The first course of students began training in January 2020 at the International Tactical Training Center. The second course of 10 students will begin... 13 February 2020
MASA Group has signed a major contract with the Spanish Army for the use of MASA SWORD. It includes the acquisition and full customization to the Spanish requirements of SWORD, MASA’s flagship constructive simulation software. SWORD is an automated, aggregated, constructive simulation designed to improve training, analysis, and decision... 12 February 2020
The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine is developing a training program with the University of Nebraska Medical Center through the Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills Omaha program to best prepare medical airmen to respond to infectious disease threats that could impact military personnel and... 11 February 2020
ThirdEye, an augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) enterprise solutions company, has partnered with 3D Media, a technology development firm that specializes in virtual and augmented reality solutions for the enterprise, to improve training and human performance for flight line maintainers and flight crews for one of the... 11 February 2020
PLEXSYS’ Director of Advanced Technologies, Dr. Alex Streit, will be presenting his paper “DAAPR: Distributed Debriefing in Heterogeneous Environments” at the 2020 Simulation Innovation Workshop (SIW) February 10 – 14, 2020. Image credit: PLEXSYS Whether multi-crew first responder training or large-scale multi-national defense exercises, total mission effectiveness starts at... 11 February 2020
Inzpire Limited will provide planning and operational management to the UK Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA) during its UK flight trials of unmanned aerial systems. The trials will demonstrate the advantages of using long-range unmanned capabilities in civilian airspace. "This is a huge opportunity for Inzpire," said Paul Rolfe, Inzpire’s... 11 February 2020
The CESIHEL of the Spanish Army Aviation Academy (ACAVIET) has reached 50,000 flight hours with Indra-developed simulators. The centre has Chinook, Cougar, Tiger and EC135 helicopter simulator models and, since last October, the NH90 helicopter. Indra say the NH90 is the most sophisticated simulator it has developed for a... 11 February 2020
QinetiQ Group plc, a military technology company, have purchased England-based sim training specialists Newman & Spurr Consultancy Limited (NSC). The £14m deal will allow NSC to pursue larger contracts and take larger roles within them. Further, NSC can leverage existing functional support and business infrastructure that will be key... 11 February 2020
The seventeenth annual Omega Close Air Support (CAS) conference took place at the Hilton Hotel, Reading – west of London, UK – on 20th and 21st November 2019. MS&T’s Dim Jones went along to see and hear. In continuance of the very successful arrangement established over the past couple... 10 February 2020
The U.S. Air Force’s Operation Training Infrastructure (OTI) program recently issued a software certification for Advanced Simulation Technology inc. (ASTi)’s Telestra and Redsim products. The certification affirms that the Air Force OTI is authorized to use ASTi’s products, which now appear in the OTI Evaluated/Approved Products List (OTI E/APL). 6 February 2020
Elbit Systems has launched a new Electronic Warfare (EW) system, the Aircrew Mobile Simulation and Training Field (AMSTF). This system enables efficient EW Training and Simulation (T&S) for pilots against realistic EW threats. Housed in a standard mobile container, the AMSTF system incorporates a range of transmitters, sensors, communications,... 6 February 2020
A total of 380 MetaVR Virtual Reality Scene Generator (VRSG) real time 3D licenses have been purchased for U.S. Air National Guard (ANG) F-16 Mission Tactics Trainer (MTT) simulators in what is the largest single VRSG order ever received by the company. F-16 cockpit view of VRSG showing geospecific... 5 February 2020
Naval Support Activity Orlando will participate this February in Exercise Citadel Shield-Solid Curtain 2020 (CS/SC 20), an annual anti-terrorism force protection exercise, which includes the Commander of US Fleet Forces Command (USFFC) and Commander of Navy Installations Command (CNIC). Security personnel from Naval Support Activity Orlando apprehend a simulated... 4 February 2020
King Crow Studios was selected as one of six recipients of a $1-million contract from the United States Air Force for their training and simulation application. The contracts were awarded at the inaugural Simulators Pitch Day in December, part of the Interservice/Industry, Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), which... 4 February 2020
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) will demo its latest simulation software at the 2019 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), which takes place from December 2-6 in Orlando, Florida. Conference-goers can preview ARA’s latest synthetic terrain capabilities and virtual reality (VR) technologies at booth 2572, which include the... 4 February 2020