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Air Education and Training Command (AETC) is working to build a faster and smarter Air Force in partnership with multiple major commands to develop a competency-based virtual and augmented-reality (VR/AR) training capability for the aircraft maintenance and career enlisted aviator communities. A completed 3D scan of a F-16C Fighting... 5 March 2020
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced plans to restructure 50 military hospitals and clinics to better support wartime readiness of military personnel and to improve clinical training for medical forces who deploy in support of combat operations around the world. Image credit: Military Health System Military readiness includes... 5 March 2020
The military looks toward immersive gaming tech to train its troops Raytheon is developing a Soldier-Squad Virtual Trainer for the U.S. Army’s Synthetic Training Environment. It will allow soldiers to train at their home station in a realistic virtual world. Image credit: Raytheon U.S. military trainers have used simulators... 4 March 2020
Held annually, IT²EC is the international forum for military, civil sector, industry and academic representatives from around the globe to share and promote simulation, training and education knowledge. IT²EC 2020 will take place 28-30 April 2020 at ExCeL, London. Previously known as ITEC, the re-brand into IT²EC for 2020... 3 March 2020
Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS) has been awarded a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) technical project with the Simulation and Training Technology Center (STTC), a division of the Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory’s (ARL) Human Research and Engineering (HRED) Directorate. The objective of this five-year program is... 3 March 2020
The University of South Florida (USF) Institute of Applied Engineering and U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) have agreed to a new, multi-year contract that paves the way for researchers and students to collaborate with SOCOM to help solve significant challenges facing the nation. The five-year contract is worth a... 3 March 2020
The U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program recently awarded The DVI Group with a Phase I contract. The contract allows DVI to focus on developing next generation aviation training content for the Air Force. Founder and CEO of The DVI Group, Matthew Lopes. Image credit: DVI... 3 March 2020
Image credit: Collins Aerospace Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp., has completed the first pre-production Tactical Combat Training System Increment II (TCTS Inc. II) training pod for the U.S. Navy. This comes just months after the completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) with the Navy... 3 March 2020
Trideum Corporation will officially open the doors to its new Innovation Center and celebrate its fifteenth anniversary at its Huntsville, Alabama, headquarters on 5 March 2020. The Innovation Center opening marks Trideum’s most recent efforts to enhance the local economy and support the military test and training communities over... 3 March 2020
General Dynamics Mission Systems was awarded a contract for the Army Consolidated Product Line Management Plus (CPM Plus) Program from the Army Contracting Command in Orlando, Florida. CPM Plus is an eight year, single-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity, cost-plus fixed-fee/firm-fixed price contract with a ceiling of $883 million. Executing the contract... 3 March 2020
For the first time, two teams tied to as winners of the Spark Tank 2020 competition at the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida, in February. The Low Cost Threat Emitter Replication, submitted by 1st Lt. Daniel A. Treece, Air Education and Training Command, Luke Air... 2 March 2020
Lockheed Martin received FAA Part 142 Training Center certification at the company’s Hercules Training Center in Marietta, Georgia. Group Editor Marty Kauchak reports on recent training milestones. 2 March 2020
The RAF has renamed a training facility at RAF Shawbury in honour of The Duke of Cambridge. The Duke completed advanced flying training at the Defence Helicopter Flying School, receiving an aircrew flying badge in January 2010. The Duke of Cambridge Building is part of the UK Military Flying Training... 2 March 2020
Charles River Analytics Inc. has received funding from the US Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences to build its Physiological Index of Situation Awareness system with SA Technologies. 27 February 2020
Rheinmetall has signed a contract to modernize flight simulators for the German Army Aviation Corps’ NH90 helicopters. For Rheinmetall, the order, signed in December, is worth a figure in the lower double-digit euro million range. Awarded as part of the Helicopter Flight Training Systems (HFTS), the contract encompasses operation,... 27 February 2020
Over 2,000 sailors and Royal Marines will spearhead the UK’s biggest military exercise in the Arctic for nearly a decade. Ships, helicopters, armoured vehicles, commando units, medics, and specialist raiding craft are all committed to the Norwegian-led Exercise Cold Response. In all 15,000 military personnel from ten countries will... 26 February 2020
MASS have opened a new training academy in Lincoln, England, to deliver electronic warfare and defence training and simulation programmes. The New Horizons building at Teal Park has several training simulators. This allows MASS to carry out all of its leading programmes and host hundreds of delegates from around... 26 February 2020
Attracting over 250 military and industry attendees from over 40 nations, Defence iQ’s Military Flight Training 2020 arrives at a time where guaranteeing air superiority and strike capability has never been tougher. The 19th Annual Military Flight Training Conference takes place from 31st March - 2nd April 2020, in... 25 February 2020
RAF Personnel, under the command of No.8 RAF Force Protection Wing, have arrived at Hindan Air Force base to take part in Exercise INDRADHANUSH. The exercise will see the Force Protection Force (RAF Police and RAF Regiment) working alongside Garud Regiment and Indian Air Force Police and Security personnel. INDRADHANUSH is part of an... 25 February 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