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Thales was selected to deliver an FNPT II (Flight and Navigation Procedures Trainer) simulator to the Royal Malaysian Air Force for the purposes of initial training. The simulator, delivered to the company Gading Kasturi, has been in operation since December. The flight and navigation training simulator for H120 helicopters is a... 23 March 2017
Military, police forces, and other government agencies have used unmanned ground robots for many years to go into harsh environments that may be unsafe for humans. Unfortunately, many of these robots, while essential, have proven to be expensive and to have long-term reliability issues. To address this challenge, Realion Robotics... 21 March 2017
Defense Conseil International (DCI), the reference operator of the French ministry of defence for the international transfer of French military know-how, has created Helang Flying Academy, the first regional helicopter training centre in Malaysia, in a joint venture with Major Flagship Sdn Bhd (MFSB). The joint venture, the first involving... 21 March 2017
4C Strategies has been chosen to be part of the delivery of the new Unit Based Virtual Trainer (UBVT) to the British Army. UBVT will enable units to collectively practice fire and manoeuvre, command and control, and tactics, techniques and procedures in a realistic synthetic environment. UBVT will manage and... 21 March 2017
Founded on Saint Patrick's Day in 1947, CAE launched a year of celebrations on Friday with its 8,000 employees worldwide to commemorate its 70th anniversary. CAE is today a global training company headquartered in Montreal. Employees in each of CAE's 160 sites around the world will participate in celebrations which... 20 March 2017
Charles River Analytics - CRA Inc., the developer of intelligent systems solutions, has announced a contract to build a virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) training interface for the US Army, as part of continued efforts in advanced, agile, customer-focused engineering. The two-year contract for a Virtual Interface for Real-Time User... 20 March 2017
An official partnership agreement has been signed by SMR Links Consultants and VSTEP, making SMR Links the exclusive partner of the NAUTIS maritime simulators and RescueSim Incident Command Simulator in the UAE Region. Through SMR Links, VSTEP has officially made available its simulator solutions to major stakeholders in the UAE... 20 March 2017
Diamond Visionics released its latest GenesisRTX version, 10.5.1, with some major technology upgrades and new feature enhancements that focus on a number of core areas, including new options for zooming, dynamic visibility controls, improved entity tracking and others. Diamond Visionics’ GenesisRTX worldwide database generation system provides cutting-edge visualization and manipulation... 17 March 2017
Cubic Global Defense (CGD), a business unit of Cubic Corporation, won a contract worth more than $42 million from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to support live, virtual and constructive (LVC) training services for the Joint Readiness Training Center’s (JRTC) Operations Group at Fort Polk, Louisiana. Cubic will support rotational... 16 March 2017
CAE’s Defence and Security business unit expanded its operations in the United Arab Emirates by moving to new facilities in Abu Dhabi. The offices in Abu Dhabi will house staff from CAE and CAE Maritime Middle East LLC, CAE's local UAE-based company that is serving as the prime contractor and... 13 March 2017
United States Marine Corps and Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces conducted aerial integration training using the Marines’ MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft and Japanese CH-47 Chinook helicopters during exercise Forest Light 17-1 in the Soumagahara training area of Gunma prefecture, Japan on March 10, 2017. This portion of the exercise familiarized both nations'... 13 March 2017
L3 Technologies and HNA Group L3 Technologies won a contract worth more than $115 million from HNA Group’s Hainan Sky Plumage Flight Training Co., Ltd, to provide 11 full flight simulators (FFS) and auxiliary training equipment over the next 18 months. L3 Commercial Training Solutions (L3 CTS) will deliver RealitySeven... 10 March 2017
The Kuwait Ministry of Defence has appointed the Australian College of Kuwait and its partners Airways International Ltd. (NZ) and 3SDL (UK) as its training providers. The Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) will be responsible for overall training management along with engineering and flight training programmes while Airways will be... 9 March 2017
Sikorksy and Bristow Group are working to enter into a long-term agreement that establishes Bristow as Sikorsky's preferred supplier for ab initio pilot training for Sikorsky aircraft customers at Bristow Academy. The intent of the agreement is to allow Sikorsky BlackHawk, S-70i, S-92, S-76 and Light Helicopter customers to complete... 9 March 2017
Sonalysts, Inc. has been awarded a $14 million contract to develop two Standard Space Trainer, or SST, variants, for Air Force operators of the Milstar and the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite communication systems, both of which are elements of the overall Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) system. The two... 9 March 2017
One of CAE USA's senior instructor pilots on the MQ-1 Predator remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) recently participated as one of the aircrew during the ceremonial "final flight" of the MQ-1 Predator at Holloman Air Force Base (AFB) in New Mexico. In total, seven pilots and seven sensor operators participated in... 8 March 2017
Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) has released a new version of VBS IG, which shares a common baseline with Virtual Battlespace 3 (VBS3) and inherits the many improvements of the latest version of VBS3. VBS IG provides common visualization technology for the land, sea and air training domains with a highly... 8 March 2017
SimCentric Technologies has opened a North American Office in Fayetteville, North Carolina to enhance the engagement, responsiveness, program support and collaborative teaming capacity for its military and industry partners. The company has named Lee Power as its new Senior Director – North America, and head of U.S.-based operations. Power had... 7 March 2017
The Empire Test Pilots' School (ETPS) has been recognised by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) as an Approved Training Organisation (ATO), certified to train test pilots to civil standards. The accreditation means ETPS is one of three schools in the world, and the first in the UK, able to... 7 March 2017
CAE USA has celebrated the grand opening of the new CAE Dothan Training Center located at the Dothan Regional Airport in Alabama. The first class of United States Army aviators officially started training at the center in mid-February, including the first class for the Initial Entry Fixed-Wing training track created... 7 March 2017