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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
The U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) successfully completed the MISSILEX exercise off the coast of Virginia. The exercise involved detecting a simulated threat and firing a Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) at a remote controlled, subsonic missile drone acting as an anti-ship cruise missile. "There have... 15 February 2018
Orlando-based Serious Simulations has been awarded a research and development contract with Melbourne-based Aeronyde Corporation to produce a wireless augmented reality (AR) head mounted display as part of key control technology for unmanned and robotic aerial vehicles. Under this contract, Serious Simulations will use its current and soon-to-be-announced patented wireless... 15 February 2018
Northrop Grumman Corporation has received a $75 million Indefinite Deliver/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract award to deliver Joint Threat Emitter (JTE) support services to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The JTE offers realistic warfighter training and provides a modern, reactive battlespace environment that trains military personnel to identify and counter enemy... 15 February 2018
Leonardo says it proved the viability of its new “always available” model support contract business model after an initial trial with flight services provider Draken International in 2017. The “always available” model uses the company’s support, logistics and technology expertise to ensure all assets are available whenever they are needed... 13 February 2018
Inzpire Limited was sub-contracted by Lockheed Martin UK to provide aircrew instruction and technical support for the duration of a contract that will see Lockheed Martin UK provide a new simulator training facility at RAF Odiham. Inzpire also partnered with Operational Solutions Limited, which will provide technical maintenance support to... 13 February 2018
Advanced Simulation Technology inc. (ASTi) won a U.S. Air Force (USAF) contract for an Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) that licenses ASTi’s Voisus networked voice communications, radio-over-IP (RoIP) bridging and ongoing support services for the Warrior Preparation Center (WPC) in Germany. The ELA includes bundled services that ensure operational effectiveness throughout... 8 February 2018
Charles River Analytics won a two-year, $1 million U.S. Army contract to field-test, refine and transition its Monitoring, Extracting, and Decoding Indicators of Cognitive Workload (MEDIC) system to automatically sense indicators of cognitive workload. Under a previous Army contract, the company developed a system to improve training by Monitoring, Extracting,... 8 February 2018
Updated: 4/2/18 The U.S. Navy’s next generation destroyer, the USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001), completed acceptance trials after the U.S. Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey reviewed and evaluated the ship and its crew during a series of demonstrations that showed the ship’s construction and compliance with Navy specifications. Many... 7 February 2018
Cubic Global Defense, a Cubic Corporation business division, won a contract to continue providing analytical support services to the U.S. European Command’s (EUCOM) Joint Training and Exercise Division. The company will manage, develop and deliver training and exercise services for EUCOM’s Joint Exercise Program (JEP) and components’ Title X exercises. 7 February 2018
Ignition! – a joint venture between Sonaca Group and Sabena Aerospace – signed an agreement with BAE Systems to explore opportunities to work together on a range of activities, should Belgium choose the Eurofighter to replace its current F-16 fleet. A major part of the Eurofighter consortium industrial proposal is... 6 February 2018