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Technology and collaboration has created an optimal training environment for the CC-130J. Managing Editor Jeff Loube visited the RCAF’s Air Mobility Training Centre. 2 March 2018
Following his Military Keynote address on November 28, at 2017 I/ITSEC, General David G. Perkins, Commanding General, US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) sat down with Group Editor Marty Kauchak. 2 March 2018
Airbus Helicopters, Thales and Helisim are to join forces to construct a new, state-of-the-art helicopter pilot and maintenance crew training center in Texas. The Airbus Helicopters Training Center in North America will be located at the headquarters of Airbus Helicopters Inc. in Grand Prairie. Helisim, a joint venture of Thales... 28 February 2018
Sundog Software has released version 4 of its Triton Ocean SDK for training and simulation software developers. 28 February 2018
The Army Contracting Command (ACC) in support of PEO STRI has awarded Gamesim an OTA (Other Transaction Authority) to research the development of deep learning techniques to extract attribution from point clouds of individual structures, especially buildings. The research executed under this OTA will allow more geospecific attributes to be... 27 February 2018
The MASA Group has announced that, after an intensive selection procedure, the Belgian Army has selected MASA SWORD as the Constructive Simulation Solution. MASA SWORD will be deployed in the simulation centre at one of the biggest Belgian Army site in Leopoldsburg in the northeastern province of Limburg. MASA SWORD... 27 February 2018
MS&T Editors relish the opportunities to engage with leadership in the defense community: to learn, network and engage. We value the opportunity to seek leadership insights about horizons, and challenges; we also value the opportunity to share these insights in both the magazine and this web site. During I/ITSEC 2017... 27 February 2018
Experts from Inzpire Limited's Integrated Sensors and Systems (ISS) and Synthetic Training Divisions recently deployed to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, to support Exercise RED FLAG 18-1. Inzpire Typhoon Mission Data (MD) and Defensive Aids (DASS) technical and developmental subject matter experts based at RAF Coningsby's Typhoon Mission Support Centre... 27 February 2018
The Italian Air Force recently accepted into service a Predator Mission Trainer at Amendola Air Force Base (AFB) in Italy. The trainer is for the Italian Air Force's Predator and was jointly developed by CAE and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI). Over the next several months during phase two... 26 February 2018
UAE Air Force RQ-1E remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) aircrews have completed several courses for the past few months that are being delivered by CAE Maritime Middle East (MME), including an RPA Sensor Operator Fundamentals Course and RPA Aircrew Fundamentals Course. And, the first class of cadets at the Khalifa Bin... 26 February 2018
Tenosar Corporation signed an agreement with the U.S. Army Contracting Command Orlando, and the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), to lead a Synthetic Training Environment (STE) project. The company is working with SimBlocks LLC to build the Globally Oriented Architecture Topology (GOAT), taking commercial-off-the-shelf solutions... 22 February 2018
The U.S. Air Force will use the Advanced Pilot Trainer (T-X) at existing undergraduate pilot training bases, replacing the T-38C Talon. The Air Force expects to award a contract for the T-X in 2018, with the first aircraft expected to arrive at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph as early as 2022. 22 February 2018
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory and computer science researchers at North Carolina (NC) State University entered an agreement to develop a program called DeepGen to generate customizable virtual training scenarios. The scenarios created by DeepGen will run on the Bohemia Interactive Simulations-developed Virtual Battlespace 3 (VBS3), a program already used... 22 February 2018
Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC) opened its Adversary Center of Excellence (ACE) at Fort Worth Alliance Airport in Texas. The center, also called ATAC-ACE, will include up to 200 personnel responsible for over 80 high-performance aircraft, as well as house ATAC’s upgraded Mirage 1 fighter jets through adversary air and... 22 February 2018
A Precision Flight Controls and Ryan Aerospace joint venture developed a new, cost-effective helicopter simulator that just received certification as an Advanced Aviation Training Device (AATD) by the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). The simulator is reconfigurable between the Bell 206 and Bell 407. “This is a real game-changer for flying... 22 February 2018
Pinnacle Solutions will support M1 Support Services as a subcontractor on its Fort Rucker Aviation Maintenance Services contract. The company will fulfill maintenance and logistical support service requirements for the Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command (AMC), Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM), Army Aviation Center. These support services will... 21 February 2018
Teledyne Technologies subsidiary, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., won a $45.7 million Task Order from the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) for missile defense modeling and simulation tools and software. Work is planned to begin immediately and could extend through July 2023. The task order is for Teledyne... 20 February 2018
After a successful pilot program at the Liwonde National Park, the U.K. Ministry of Defence is deploying troops to the Nkhotakota and Majete Wildlife Reserves in Malawi to expand counter-poaching training. A conservation crisis around the globe is causing the loss of countless species with the illegal wildlife trade being... 20 February 2018
Britannica Knowledge Systems, the Fox Training Management System developer, is restructuring its business to enhance both its product and customer responsiveness following customer feedback from the Britannica Users Summit in November 2017. A new Customer Solutions & Delivery (CS&D) department will merge from two separate units; Project Management and Customer... 16 February 2018
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected Northrop Grumman as a Phase 1 Swarm Systems Integrator for the Agency’s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program. The OFFSET program provides small-unit infantry forces with small unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) or small unmanned ground systems (UGSs) in swarms of 250 or more... 15 February 2018