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ACME’s Tactile Technologies delivered replica weapons, a rescue hoist simulator and Dynamic Motion Seats to CAE for the AW101 helicopter trainers CAE is under contract to design and manufacture for the Royal Navy’s Mk4 variant of the AW101 helicopter. ACME’s True Q® AW101 Dynamic Motion Seats in the cockpit provide... 3 July 2018
Leonardo won a post-design support contract by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide in-service support for its pre-flight threat simulation equipment being used on the Typhoon, Tornado, Merlin, Wildcat, Chinook and C130J platforms. The five-year contract builds on Leonardo’s previous 10 years of support. Leonardo’s threat simulation equipment... 3 July 2018
Environmental Tectonics Corporation's (ETC) Simulation business unit won a contract to deliver an Advanced Disaster Management Simulator (ADMS(TM)) system to Northern College of Applied Arts & Technology’s Emergency Services Complex in Ontario, Canada. The ADMS-COMMAND virtual reality training system will be incorporated into the Health Sciences and Emergency Services programs... 29 June 2018
Leonardo’s U.S. subsidiary, Leonardo DRS, won a $193 million contract to provide active protection systems for U.S. Army tanks. Leonardo DRS will deliver TROPHY active protection systems, countermeasures and maintenance kits to the Army for its new Abrams tanks. TROPHY proactively detects, locates and neutralizes anti-armor threats by increasing platform... 29 June 2018
The Hungarian Ministry of Defence ordered 20 Airbus H145M military helicopters equipped with Airbus’ HForce weapon management for its military modernization program, Zrinyi 2026. Airbus will also provide an extensive training and support package. The H145M can be used for a range of tasks including troop transport, utility, surveillance, air... 29 June 2018
The ‘conscripted militia’ model presents the Swiss Army with unique problems in training organisation and logistic support. Dim Jones reports. 28 June 2018
Charles River Analytics, a developer of systems solutions, will design, develop and evaluate swarm tactics, primitives and algorithms that support warfighters in urban operations for DARPA’s (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program. A swarm is a conflict based on simultaneous attacks from numerous directions. Under its... 28 June 2018
VirTra, a provider of training simulators for the law enforcement, military, educational and commercial markets, won $1.15 million in new contracts from three United States law enforcement agencies. The Dallas, Texas Police Department, the San Francisco, California Police Department and the Southern Desert Regional Police Academy (SDRPA) in Las Vegas,... 27 June 2018
Salient CRGT, Inc. won a subcontract by Alpha Omega Change Engineering (AOCE) to support the U.S. Army Directorate of Training and Development (DOTD) Task Order under the Space and Missile Defense Advisory and Assistance Services (SMDA2S) contract. The 3-year $43 million task order mission is to provide institutional and leader... 27 June 2018
AEgis Technologies won the U.S. Army’s Synthetic Environment Core (SE Core) program contract as a subcontractor to Leidos. This five-year, $210,000,000 program enables an interoperable Synthetic Environment (SE) for simulation and training programs. The SE Core program focuses on delivering software to enable a common correlated SE for Warfighters to... 26 June 2018
The Norwegian Defence Material Agency’s (NDMA) Norwegian Air Ground Operations School (AGOS) began training with Fidelity’s Joint Fires Advanced Training System (JFATS) simulator for its Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) and Joint Fires Observer (JFO) training programs. Fidelity says this makes Norwegian AGOS the most technically sophisticated Joint Fires Center... 25 June 2018
Fidelity Technologies Corporation won the U.S. Air Force E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) Maintenance Training System (MTS) contract under the Training Systems Acquisition (TSA) III multiple award contract. Fidelity will provide Program Management support, Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) and a Training System Support Center (TSSC) for the E-3... 25 June 2018
Lockheed Martin won a $1.2 billion U.S. government contract to produce 16 new F-16 Block 70 aircraft for the Royal Bahraini Air Force; this is the first F-16 Block 70 sale, according to Lockheed. The Kingdom of Bahrain is the first customer to procure the F-16 Block 70, the newest... 25 June 2018
4C Strategies launched Exonaut Simulation Extension (ESE)®, that lets Exonaut exercise management tools control connected simulators and C2 systems, resulting in a step change in exercise management and a reduction of the manpower required in the exercise control (EXCON) organization. The Exonaut® software suite is used to build, verify, track... 22 June 2018
Esterline Belgium (formerly Barco Defense & Aerospace) signed an agreement with Lockheed Martin as part of the F-16 Replacement Program’s Essential Security Interests. Through this agreement, both companies will seek to develop further long-term partnerships if the Belgian government decides to choose the F-35 as successor for its F-16s. This... 22 June 2018
Leonardo will supply Black Shark Advanced (BSA) torpedoes and associated logistic support services to equip the Italian Navy’s U212A 2nd Series submarines. The new equipment will increase the Anti-Submarine Warfare capability of the Navy. The BSA is an evolution of the Black Shark heavy torpedo, which is already used by... 22 June 2018
Rockwell Collins completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the Tactical Combat Training System Increment II (TCTS Inc. II) program with the U.S. Navy and was approved to begin detailed design work. The PDR was performed with the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Naval Aviation Training Systems (PMA-205) program office,... 22 June 2018
Eight companies won the right to compete for individual orders of a $2.4 billion Enterprise Training Service Contract (ETSC) by the U.S. Army Contracting Command - Orlando (ACC-ORL), in concert with the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI). The orders will be to provide and manage... 21 June 2018
Raytheon Company was one of eight companies to win competitive rights for options on a $2.4 billion U.S. Army Contracting Command contract for training services. Raytheon will compete for up to $161 million in options for mission support services, as part of the parent contract. The work will be performed... 21 June 2018
AVT Simulation (Applied Visual Technology) won a U.S. Army Contracting Command contract for Close Combat Tactical Trainer (CCTT) Post Deployment, Software Support (PDSS) through 2023. The CCTT PDSS contract supports the world’s largest ground combat simulation training platform for the Abrams Main Battle Tank, Bradley Fighting Vehicle, High Mobility Multi-Wheeled... 21 June 2018