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Tapestry Solutions, a Boeing Company, won a contract worth up to $58 million to provide mission command training support services for the 7th Army Training Command – the U.S. Army’s largest overseas training command that provides realistic, tailor-made training solutions to the U.S., NATO and partner nations. The contract award... 24 May 2017
Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and NLR are to support the Dutch Ministry of Defence in investigating the possibilities for setting up a simulation network. Such a network would allow the Ministry to save on training and education costs, and to prepare military personnel more effectively for the execution... 24 May 2017
Cementing an already strong partnership in EMEA, Antycip Simulation has announced its achievement as the first and only partner of Scalable Display Technologies, Inc. in Europe to complete the company's Advanced Comprehensive Training (ACT) programme. This enables Scalable Display Technologies and Antycip Simulation to fully support a growing number of... 24 May 2017
CAE has completed a major upgrade on the German Navy's Sea King MK41 helicopter simulator ahead of schedule and it has re-entered service at the Nordholz Naval Airbase in Germany. Previously, Sea King training was conducted on a basic instrument flight rules (IFR) training device originally built by CAE in... 17 May 2017
The strategic relationship between MASA Group and Bohemia Interactive will be reinforced this month following the signing of a reseller agreement. This agreement will confirm BISim as the official reseller of MASA SWORD in North America. With many global military powers already using both SWORD and BISim's Virtual Battlespace 3... 17 May 2017
Cubic Global Defense has announced the expansion of recruitment efforts for its Orlando, Florida operations to support the development of advanced learning products and solutions for the US Navy. During the past few months, Cubic has been awarded more than $12 million for the creation and delivery of immersive game-based... 17 May 2017
Bartragh Services, LLC, a Tampa-based company has acquired C4i Consultants, Inc. of Calgary, Canada, and established a new company, C4i Training and Technology, Inc. The new company will still be based in Calgary. Bartragh has announced that Harry H. Thompson, III has been selected as the new company chief executive... 17 May 2017
CAE has announced that the C-130 Aeromedical Evacuation Training System for the United States Air Force at Dobbins Air Reserve Base (ARB) is now on-motion, fully operational and ready-for-training. The addition of a motion platform for an aeromedical fuselage trainer is believed to be the first of its kind in... 17 May 2017
After more than five years of successful operations in Brazil, Colombia and Peru, MASA Group has opened a subsidiary company in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, consolidating its position in South America and increasing its customer outreach. The new company, MASA do Brasil, which is fully operational, will employ local resources... 17 May 2017
Saab has launched BattleTek 5, an immersed command and staff training system, at ITEC in Rotterdam Ahoy, Netherlands. BattleTek 5 is a constructive simulation system designed to make the work of military commanders and civil security leaders more efficient and effective. It combines constructive simulation and virtual-view technology to train... 16 May 2017
ITEC 2017 is fast approaching. Taking place at Ahoy, Rotterdam in the Netherlands on 16-18 May, Europe's leading military training and simulation event will feature a conference that covers topics across the broad spectrum in this evolving and ever-changing sector. The three-day, multi stream conference features sessions on M&S Technologies... 11 May 2017
Quantum3D, Inc. has been selected to provide image generation technology as part of the first flight simulator being delivered to Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) in support of its new T-625 helicopter design. The simulator will feature Quantum3D's Independence® IDX 8000 Series image generator (IG), which is Quantum3D's most powerful IG solution... 10 May 2017
In June 2015, NATO designated cyber as an official operational domain of warfare, along with air, land and sea. Less than two years later, on 5 April 2017, the German Minister of Defence, Ursula von der Leyen, solemnly introduced a new service branch: the "Cyber-und InformationsRaum (CIR) which stands for... 10 May 2017
VT MAK has announced the official release of VR-Engage 1.0, MAK's new multi-role virtual simulator. VR-Engage lets you play the role of a first-person human character; a vehicle driver, gunner or commander; or the pilot of an airplane or helicopter. VR-Engage can be deployed as a trainee simulator, as a... 10 May 2017
Bagira's full MAGNET system, including MAGNET adaptation for Galil assault rifle and anti-tank rocket Panzerfaust 3, has been delivered to the Peruvian army, accompanied by one year of operational and maintenance service, as part of Bagira's focus on the mission readiness of its customers. The MAGNET, an infantry tactical weapon... 9 May 2017
Lockheed Martin won a contract to deliver a tailored simulation-based F-16 training environment for the Romanian Air Force that includes a comprehensive suite of full-mission trainers and combat-tactics trainers that can be networked together, aligning technologies to enable multiple pilots to train together on advanced scenarios. Under this contract, Lockheed... 9 May 2017
CAE has been awarded a C$56 million contract by the General Headquarters (GHQ) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to provide the UAE Air Force and Air Defence with a comprehensive training solution for remotely piloted aircraft (RPA). Under terms of the five-year contract, CAE will deliver an integrated training solution... 8 May 2017
Two United States F-35A (USAF) Lightning IIs and about 20 supporting Airmen have arrived at Bulgaria’s Graf Ignatievo Air Base from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England to participate in the first training deployment to Europe. The aircraft and total force Airmen are from the 34th Fighter Squadron, 388th Fighter Wing,... 8 May 2017
Cubic Global Defense (CGD) has received a contract award worth more than $35 million to continue supporting the British Army. The three-year contract allows Cubic to deliver services and repair to the Area Weapons Effects Simulator (AWES) at Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA) in the United Kingdom and at the British... 4 May 2017
Cubic Appoints Diane Giuliani Senior Vice President Cubic Global Defense (CGD), a business unit of Cubic Corporation, appointed Diane Giuliani as senior vice president of global business development and strategy. Giuliani will be responsible for global business development efforts across the CGD business, including the implementation and execution of business... 26 April 2017