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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
Finland's Varjo have added real-time chroma keying and marker tracking as early access features for its XR-1 Developer Edition headset. Varjo say it is the first company to deliver chroma keying in real-time for mixed reality devices. It is an industry-standard technique known as green-screening and used in broadcasting... 10 March 2020
Software developer Peter Moore will give a presentation at IT²EC 2020 on VR technology and how it can aid conduct after capture training. One of the core conference themes at IT²EC 2020 is “Emerging Solutions: Propelling Today's Advances into the Digital Twin Age". Moore's session will explore how military training... 9 March 2020
Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) has released updates to VBS3. VBS3 20.1 comes with VBS Map, a new HTML-based external map tool, enhanced civilian Artificial Intelligence (AI) pedestrian and traffic pattern-of-life behaviors (available for multiplayer use through the VBS3 Bundle), a new modular helicopter instrumentation system, and more than 100... 9 March 2020
The release of VBS Blue IG 20.1 includes the latest updates to the company’s high-performance, 3D whole-earth image generator, including updates to VBS Blue’s atmospheric modeling for more realistic rendering, performance optimizations to display thousands of AI entities in a scene, improvements to terrain detail including 3D trees and... 9 March 2020
D3A Defence, MetaVR, Battlespace Simulations Inc and Minerva Simulation & Training will demonstrate a ‘bring your own mortar’ end-to-end virtual training system concept for mortar operations at DSET from 10-11 March, 2020. The three-station ‘bring you own mortar’ concept demonstrator will be running throughout DSET 2020, 10-11 March, 2020. 9 March 2020
MS&T’s Europe Editor, Dim Jones, visited the Empire Test Pilots’ School (ETPS) at MoD Boscombe Down to track the progress of the members of the Class of 2019; by the time of this instalment, they were approaching the halfway mark, undertaking more complex and demanding tasks. 9 March 2020