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Three Purdue University alumni will soon help more members of the U.S. Air Force advance critical communication skills to keep them safe in the cockpit. PlaneEnglish, a simulator created by the three Purdue alumni, has received a $1 million SBIR Phase II award, sponsored by the U.S. Air Force... 31 January 2020
AVT Simulation in Orlando, Florida, was awarded a $31 million firm-fixed-price contract to design, develop, integrate, manage, deliver, install, test, document and support construction equipment virtual trainers. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date in January 2025. U.S. Army Contracting Command,... 31 January 2020
AVT Simulation broke ground at a new headquarters facility that once completed, will be the 40,000 square-foot home in the Quadrangle in Orlando, Florida. Left to right: Kimberly Sheldon, CFO; Kyle Crooks, President; Robert Abascal, Founder, and CEO; Christina Wilson, Operations Manager, and FSO; Todd Andrew, President of Andrew... 30 January 2020
Airman from the Air Force’s 34th Combat Training Squadron and the U.S. Army collaborated with coalition forces from Canada during the joint forcible entry and airborne assault training to kick off exercise Green Flag Little Rock 20-03 (GFLR 20-03) at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana,... 29 January 2020
British Army’s Wiltshire-based 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment has received a new Inflatable Walls Training System (IWTS). This IWTS training system replicates complex urban structures and helps improve combat training for military and law enforcement. Using the system, users can design, plan, build temporary urban structures and train in... 29 January 2020
CAE has signed a contract amendment with the NATO Airborne Early Warning & Control Program Management Agency (NAPMA) to perform avionics updates on the E-3A flight deck simulator and E-3A flight training device located at NATO Airbase Geilenkirchen in Germany. CAE will be upgrading the avionics on the NATO... 28 January 2020
The NATO Modelling & Simulation Coordination Office (MSCO) has issued a Call for Papers for the 2020 conference of the NATO Modelling & Simulation Group (NMSG). The Symposium will be held in Bath, UK from 22 to 23 October 2020, supported by the NATO Modelling and Simulation Group of... 28 January 2020
Acroamatics Telemetry Systems (Acroamatics), a Delta Information Systems Company, has been selected by Northrop Grumman to deliver multiple Model 3022AP Portable Multi-function Telemetry Processing Systems in support of the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) program production and test operations. Image credit: Acroamatics Telemetry Systems Northrop Grumman’s AARGM is a... 27 January 2020
Midshipmen got a 360-degree view of flight training during Aviation Selection Night at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, marking a new era in technology for prospective flight students. A U.S. Naval Academy Midshipman conducts a simulated T-6B Texan II flight on a newly installed virtual reality trainer... 27 January 2020
U.S. Navy sailors assigned to the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) air department began using virtual-reality to simulate flight deck operations inside the mobile Carrier-Advanced Reconfigurable Training System (C-ARTS) classroom located at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. US Navy aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78). U.S. Navy... 27 January 2020
In April 2019, MS&T published online an article entitled “The Brexit Impacts on UK-EU-NATO Training”, which subsequently appeared in Issue 2/2019. At that time, Theresa May was the UK’s Prime Minister, and Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty (UK’s withdrawal from the European Union) had been triggered, leading to... 27 January 2020
VT MAK, a company of ST Engineering North America, has successfully completed a programmatic milestone by demonstrating the core technologies that make up the U.S. Army’s Synthetic Training Environment’s (STE) Common Synthetic Environment (CSE), integrated with the One World terrain (OWT) and the Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Trainer (RVCT) devices. 24 January 2020
Soldiers from multiple countries took part in pyrotechnic training to become qualified observer, coach, trainers (OC/T's) for the Combined Resolve XIII exercise at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC). Pyrotechnic training is one component of the three-day academy course. Once completed, the soldiers are certified to work as an... 24 January 2020
Dr. Shanan Gwaltney Gibson, a scholar with deep expertise related to job analysis, entrepreneurship and small business development, has been named dean of the David B. O’Maley College of Business at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The Mori Hosseini Student Union on Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach Campus. Image credit: Embry-Riddle/Daryl LaBello. Gibson,... 23 January 2020
The Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) has awarded a contract to Cubic Global Defense (CGD) to supply its P5 Combat Training System (P5CTS). Cubic and principal subcontractor Leonardo DRS will deliver P5CTS airborne subsystems and associated ground subsystems to integrate with ROKAF aircraft and training infrastructure. The P5CTS... 23 January 2020
The 5th edition of DSET will take place in Bristol, UK on 10th & 11th March. DSET’s conference focusses on the military training and simulation’s current and future objectives and challenges, with 90% of the conference delivered by international military, government and academic speakers. 2019’s event was the largest... 22 January 2020
The MOD’s UK Military Flying Training System (UKMFTS) has signed a £183 million contract to boost training services for new Rotary Wing pilots. The contract amendment includes an uplift of four new Airbus H145 helicopters and a state-of-the-art simulator and infrastructure improvements. There is also support in attracting and... 22 January 2020
Saab has started assembly production of its section of the T-7A aircraft, the advanced trainer developed and produced together with Boeing for the United States Air Force. Saab is developing and producing the aft fuselage section for the advanced trainer. Seven aft units are in production in Linköping, Sweden... 22 January 2020
CAE has appointed Todd Probert as Group President, Defence & Security, effective January 27, 2020. He will be based in Washington, D.C. and is succeeding Gene Colabatistto, who retired from CAE in December 2019. Todd Probert, Group President, CAE Defence and Security Probert worked for Raytheon, the world's fourth... 20 January 2020
Leonardo, through AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corp., has been awarded a firm-fixed-price contract valued at USD 176.5 million by U.S. Department of Defense for the production and delivery of 32 TH-73A helicopters, initial spares, support and dedicated equipment, and specific pilot and maintenance training services. This contract, as Fiscal 2020 aircraft... 20 January 2020