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Airbus Helicopters will offer its H135 helicopter as the solution for the U.S. Navy’s planned helicopter trainer replacement program. The H135 trainer aircraft offers advanced technologies that provide a platform for training missions for instructor pilots. As a twin-engine helicopter, the H135 provides a training environment similar to the Navy’s... 21 May 2018
Systems Engineering and Assessment Ltd (SEA) led an industry team that delivered findings on the future of modelling and simulation to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence. The core Architectures, Interoperability and Management of Simulations (AIMS) delivery team of SEA, BAE Systems, QinetiQ and Thales conducted research tasks related to... 21 May 2018
Cubic Corporation’s Cubic Global Defense business division and 4C Strategies formed a partnership to cooperate in the development and delivery of next-generation training and readiness capabilities. They will integrate products, services and solutions for shared customers and provide open and scalable training solutions with a focus on customer outcomes, rather... 18 May 2018
QuantaDyn Corporation released QFires Portable, a ROMADS (Radio-Operator-Maintainer and Drivers) video receiver Emulated Military Equipment (EME) product. QuantaDyn says it’s the first EME device that lets users switch between different aircraft video downlink feeds during distributed and stand-alone simulation training. The QFires Portable gives students a familiar fielded-receiver interface. QFires... 18 May 2018
Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim), a developer of military simulation and training software; reached an agreement with Pitch Technologies, a supplier of commercial tools and services; to bundle Pitch Talk with BISim's desktop training software products starting with VBS3. VBS3 is a desktop training package based on commercial video game technology. 18 May 2018
Seaspan Marine entered into a five-year, multi-million-dollar agreement with SeaWays Global, a provider of marine training and tugboat simulations. SeaWays will provide competency-based marine training and tugboat simulation in support of the Seaspan’s ship escort, ship assist and towing services. The agreement includes the installation of a multi-console tugboat simulator... 16 May 2018
Lockheed Martin received a $23.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy for follow-on production of Enhanced Laser-Guided Training Rounds (ELGTRs) to support the Paveway™ II Laser-Guided Bomb (LGB) weapons training. The award extends ELGTR production into late 2020. “ELGTR is the only proven low-cost, guided trainer for Paveway II Laser-Guided... 16 May 2018
The Australian Army signed another two-year license agreement for the Titan Vanguard simulation environment it has been using for the past two years to have a synthetic environment in a variety of simulators across each of the three services. This new agreement places Vanguard in the heart of the Army’s... 15 May 2018
Esterline Simulation Visual Systems, a business of Esterline Corporation, won multiple contracts from L3 Technologies to continue supporting the United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 Mission Training Center (MTC) program. Esterline has been supporting the program since 2012. The contracts include 99 latest-generation SIM7 high-contrast LCoS projectors with built-in image... 15 May 2018
CAE USA won a contract to provide the United States Navy Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA) with Contract Instruction Services (CIS) that will support the delivery of ground-based training. Under the five-year contract, CAE will provide classroom simulator instructors to support primary, intermediate and advanced pilot training at five... 15 May 2018
VT MAK released an update to its suite of simulation software, including products: VR-Forces, VR-Vantage and VR-Engage. All three products share software technology that creates advantages for customers, according to the company, which says the visual quality of VR-Vantage permeates VR-Forces’ 3-D views, bringing better visual correlation to your computer-generated... 15 May 2018
Cubic Corporation’s Global Defense (CGD) business division received $16 million worth of orders from a U.S. Navy contract for immersive game-based courseware to support the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). Cubic’s development efforts of the Immersive Virtual Shipboard Environment (IVSE) learning product for LCS are in alignment with the Navy’s... 14 May 2018
The DiSTI Corporation, a provider of graphical user interface development software, released GL Studio 6.2, its user interface development toolkit for performance, fidelity and reliability. GL Studio is used to produce high-performing reliable 2D/3D graphical user interfaces. This release offers more than 30 enhancements so non-programmers can create complex user... 14 May 2018
The first of four leased King Air KA350 aircraft have been certified for use by the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF). The new aircraft will replace the B200 fleet and provide the RNZAF with domestic multi-engine pilot training capabilities. Air warfare officers are trained to fly and operate the... 14 May 2018
The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) 306 Squadron at Leeuwarden Air Base received a desk-top simulator for UAV training. The simulator is part of the Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS) Training Technology Demonstrator (TTD) project managed by the European Defence Agency (EDA) and is part... 14 May 2018
U.S. Army Soldiers with Archer Battery, Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Cavalry Regiment conduct a fire mission with a M777 Howitzer during Exercise Dynamic Front 18 at the U.S. Army’s Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany. [DoD Image: Gertrud Zach] Sponsored by Tapestry Solutions: A Closer Look at Boeing’s Tapestry Solutions Providing Full-Spectrum... 11 May 2018
TrianGraphics GmbH released Trian3DBuilder Version 6.5. The new version more effectively supports a wider range of data and includes new scripts, integrated databases, material and shader support, and a multitude of functions for editing and getting optimal results from source data. The Trian3DBuilder Version 6.5 lets users create sophisticated game-quality... 9 May 2018
Modest Tree released 3D Editor Version 1.5, the newest version of its software for rapid creation of 3D training applications. Modest3D Editor lets users of all experience levels create 3D training using a visual storyboarding process to create complex, multi-pathed advanced 3D applications without coding. Version 1.5 includes enhancements to... 9 May 2018
Charles River Analytics won a $1.5 million U.S. Army contract to develop a medical simulation and tutorial platform to improve its medical training and patient care. Charles River is partnering with Professor Frank Ritter and Dr. Chris Garrison of Pennsylvania State University (PSU) to build a Virtual Intelligent Tutor for... 8 May 2018
Northrop Grumman delivered its multispectral testing solution for F-35 electronic warfare simulation capabilities to the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) at Point Mugu, California. The company says this delivery included the most sophisticated test environment the company has ever created. Northrop Grumman’s multispectral testing solution recreates accurate... 8 May 2018