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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
The Royal Norwegian Navy (RNN) is the first customer to order the upgraded portable DECKsim Virtual Reality Trainer from the Cohort plc company SEA. The DECKsim system replicates flight decks and land-based airfield environments to train personnel on aircraft handling procedures. The system can be configured for specific airframes, platforms... 6 February 2018
Matrox Graphics released the Matrox Mura IPC 4K DisplayPort capture and IP encode/decode cards. The dual DisplayPort 1.2 capture boards feature 4K60 full color support to give systems integrators and OEMs the ability to seamlessly capture, encode, stream, record and decode demanding 4K and 60-frames-per-second (4K60) content. Available in passive... 5 February 2018
Inzpire Limited designed and delivered the first Exercise STEEL DRAGON of 2018 at the U.K. Royal Air Force’s Air Battlespace Training Centre (ABTC) in January. The four-week exercise focused on Joint Fire and Air-Land Integration training for the Royal Artillery as a five-day activity that was repeated each week. Each... 5 February 2018
The following is a continuation of the Publisher's note from the MS&T eNewsletter 2/1/2018 This week’s news contains a piece released in late December but it is worth repeating. The Air Force Association and Civil Air Patrol have linked to jointly promote flying careers to the next generation of recruits. 1 February 2018
U.S. Army military police officers from Fort Riley, Kansas are training with the small unmanned aerial system (sUAS), RQ-11 Raven, to enhance their environment awareness in combat during the Allied Spirit VIII exercise in Hohenfels, Germany this week. Members of 287th Military Police Company, 97th Military Police Battalion and 89th... 31 January 2018
Quantum3D developed a free augmented reality (AR), maintenance training app for use with an iPhone or iPad called Quantum3D Maintenance Trainer. The app comes with a demo that puts the user in the role of an aircraft mechanic training on the procedures for repairing a helicopter jet turbine engine. A... 31 January 2018
The Air Force Association (AFA) is partnering partnership with Civil Air Patrol (CAP) to advance both organizations’ mission to advocate and promote aerospace education at the local, state and regional levels. “In an era so intensely focused on national security, it is crucial that our two organizations partner to make... 31 January 2018
Consolite Technology played a part in the evaluation of the Night Vision Goggle (NVG) Flight Trials for the UK Royal Navy’s HMS Queen Elizabeth after Consolite carried out multiple Harbour Trials on the ship to reduce risk. The trial included flying at low levels over the sea -- sideways and... 30 January 2018
The Royal Norwegian Navy frigate HNoMS Roald Amundsen and the German Sachsen-class frigate Hessen arrived at the Norfolk, Virginia naval base to participate in Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group’s (HST CSG) upcoming Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX). Both of these ships are new additions to the Harry S. Truman... 30 January 2018
Diamond Visionics released version 10.5.3 of GenesisRTX with some major technology upgrades and new feature enhancements that support the company’s priority of providing high-fidelity image generation. New features include: High-resolution dynamic ground tracks: The key part of this new feature is that the ground tracks are dynamic, not just another... 30 January 2018
U.S. Army and coalition medical personnel from New Zealand, Singapore and Australia took part in a real-world, medical-training scenario at Camp Taji in Iraq. The exercise helped train the participants to handle a flood of wounded patients coming into the Role Two Enhanced Medical Facility. Camp Taji is overseen by... 25 January 2018
General Dynamics Information Technology won a $58.9 million U.S. Army Medical Command contract to provide customized medical training and exercises at more than 15 U.S. Army Reserve regional training-sites medical program locations throughout the country. For more than a decade, General Dynamics has provided mission command and integrated training support... 25 January 2018
The U.S. Army awarded CALIBRE Systems a five-year contract worth up to $554 million to support its Training Support Systems Enterprise (TSS-E). Under this contract, CALIBRE will deliver a wide range of training services and solutions in five major task areas including Sustainable Range Program (SRP), Combat Training Center (CTC)... 25 January 2018
The U.S. Navy Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA) named the Fleet Readiness Center Southeast (FRCSE) as the primary source for T-6 repairs. The T-6 Texan II trainer is the first aircraft Navy and Marine Corps pilots train on, regardless of whether pilots go on to fly helicopters, multi-engine planes... 25 January 2018
Personnel from five Royal Navy ships took part in the latest validation exercise on the U.K.’s new aircraft carriers. The U.S. Navy ran the U.K. Carrier Strike Group (CSG) exercise that also included the French, Danish and German navies operating from the U.K. Maritime Composite Training System site at HMS... 23 January 2018