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The Navy’s eSailor program will ultimately provide continuous training and life-long career education in mobile devices. MS&T’s Chuck Weirauch explains. 15 August 2015
Boeing has named Tim Noonan as vice president of Training Systems and Government Services (TSGS). Noonan replaces Bob Gower, who is retiring this month after nearly 30 years with the company. Noonan will lead more than 2,200 employees at six major TSGS sites within the company’s Global Services & Support... 23 July 2015
The Italian Directorate for Air Armaments and Airworthiness (DAAA) has contracted CAE to develop and deliver upgrades and enhancements to a Predator Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) mission trainer being developed for the Italian Air Force. Together, CAE and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) intend to develop a high-fidelity UAS... 21 July 2015
Presagis has launched the new Ondulus Radar software product with tools for organizations to add high-fidelity, high-performance radar sensors to a variety of simulation applications. Ondulus Radar can simulate ground-based radar at a given geographic location as well as radar on board simulated vehicles, including tanks, ships, planes and fast... 20 July 2015
Lockheed Martin has won $24.2 million in contracts from the US Navy to produce Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds (ELGTR). ELGTR emulates the flight characteristics of Paveway™ II laser-guided weapon systems and gives pilots the same information they would see in an actual mission. The award represents the third order... 20 July 2015
Environmental Tectonics Corporation's Aircrew Training Systems (ATS) business unit has announced the award of multiple contracts totalling $45.4 million for customers in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Europe. Products to be provided under the contracts include an authentic tactical flight simulator (AFTS-300) with spatial disorientation training capabilities; an eight... 15 July 2015
Thales and DCI have joined forces to deliver high-level training in electronic warfare. Through this partnership, the two companies will combine their skills and offer comprehensive and innovative solutions to even better meet the needs and expectations of military customers around the world. Thales and DCI have developed a catalogue... 12 July 2015
The CAE Brunei Multi-Purpose Training Centre (MPTC), a joint venture of CAE and the Ministry of Finance of Brunei Darussalam, is supporting the Royal Brunei Air Force with pilot selection and screening using the new CAE-built PC-7 flight training device installed at the MPTC. The Royal Brunei Air Force will... 11 July 2015
CAE USA has been awarded a US Army contract to provide comprehensive initial and recurrent training for more than 600 US Army and US Air Force fixed-wing pilots annually. CAE USA will provide turnkey training services in a new company-owned, company-operated training center to be built at Dothan Regional Airport... 11 July 2015
Acceptance Tests Passed Within 15 months after contract award, Rheinmetall produced a driving simulator and a gunnery simulator for training Indonesian Leopard 2 personnel and both passed factory acceptance tests (FAT) conducted by an Indonesian delegation. The Leopard gunnery skills trainer (LGST) and driver training simulator (DTS) will primarily be... 11 July 2015
The Pakistan Air Force has signed a training memorandum of understanding with the Turkish Air Force during the opening ceremony of the Multinational Military Flight Crew Training Centre (MMFCT-C) in Izmir, Turkey. The agreement calls for the two services to exchange two pilots for training each year. The new Multinational... 7 July 2015
Cubic Global Defense has introduced a new technology that can adapt the C16 Automatic Grenade Launcher System (AGLS) for use in realistic, live training environments without interfering with the weapon's normal operation. Cubic will provide the Canadian Army with the enhanced system capability under a $5.5 million contract as part... 6 July 2015
Retired US Navy Vice Admiral David Buss has been named as vice president and deputy to the president of Cubic Global Defense (CGD). Buss will lead the business strategy for Cubic’s live, virtual and constructive (LVC) training for combined air, land and naval forces in addition to his duties as... 5 July 2015
Salient Federal Solutions’ subsidiary Salient Federal-SGIS has been awarded a prime contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) supporting the Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF) to provide training and support services in the United States as well as in support of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). 5 July 2015
The South African Navy has taken into service a new state-of-art simulation centre at SAS Simonsberg, the Navy's maritime warfare training centre. The centre is the result of a joint venture with industry to enhance naval training using the latest technology. The centre has four sections: a naval bridge simulator... 5 July 2015
Buffalo Computer Graphics (BCG) has completed an upgrade to the US Army’s C4ISR Training System at the Transportation School in Fort Eustis, Virginia. The upgrade provided modernization and enhanced capabilities for Army personnel training on the use of crypto key loading and device operations to perform encrypted data and voice... 5 July 2015
Engineering and Computer Simulations (ECS) has integrated technologies from two major US tech firms to create a total virtual training world game for training - one in which the player is fully integrated into the game action. ECS has integrated Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect 2 hardware into the Oculus Rift headset... 5 July 2015
RTDynamics has released the first version of its physics based real-time electronic warfare, RADAR and missile simulation C++ library, named EWAWS. It allows developers to model air-to-air, air-to-ground and surface-to-air missile engagements and countermeasures in real-time in engineering and training simulations. EWAWS includes mathematical models for RADAR, IR, LASER, jammer,... 5 July 2015
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Russian Federation have both ramped up the frequency of live military training exercises, especially along shared borders in easternmost Europe. Rick Adams provides a balanced view of the exercise programmes in the context of the times. 2 July 2015
High attendance and a focus on future technology marked this year’s event. MS&T’s Chuck Weirauch reports. 1 July 2015