The Naval Aviation Training Systems and Ranges (PMA-205) and the F/A-18 and EA-18G (PMA-265) program offices are fielding a sophisticated Live Virtual Constructive (LVC) training system that has the potential to revolutionize the way the U.S. Navy trains, leading to greater readiness and significant cost savings.
HII’s Mission Technologies division was awarded a $242 million contract to provide shore-based training, engineering and development support for the U.S. Navy.
Applicants will develop prototypes that address the challenges often associated with distributed mission training events, such as interoperability and configuration management. Submissions are open now until 21 April, with cash prizes totaling $100,000.
PLEXSYS and THALES are collaborating closely to develop a set of complementary expertise, tools, and capabilities that offer even more advanced integrated training and simulation solutions to Ministry of Defence customers.
The HX Fighter Program to acquire multi-role fighters, at an estimated €10 billion, maybe the most expensive state purchase ever made by Finland. Boeing, Dassault, Eurofighter, Lockheed Martin, and Saab are competing to replace the country’s aged fleet of F/A-18 C/D Hornets. This guest commentary is published by permission of Defence Command Finland.
The US Air Force is working to develop its Operational Training Structure (OTI) through the incorporation of LVC. Chuck Weirauch takes a look at the latest efforts to integrate the Live element into the LVC environment.
While US and joint training demonstrations have validated the concept of blended live-virtual-constructive (LVC)-based air combat training, the primary remaining challenge is the integration of virtual and constructive entities with front line aircraft Operational Flight Programs (OTFs) according to Michael Aldinger, Northrop Grumman manager of LVC Mission Integration.
Just how to “spoof” blue aircraft sensor systems into “believing” that the projected virtual and constructive entities they “see” on the training range are real adversary aircraft, missiles and ground elements and then showing them to the pilot of the aircraft on its screens and displays is the key to adding the “live” component to air combat LVC training. The means to accomplishing this goal is to modify the aircraft’s OTF so that it recognizes those projected false adversary virtual and constructive entities as what they were made up to be, rather than what they actually are. Multiple sources sending virtual and constructive false electronic entities into the range environment as adversaries can be added to increase the complexity and realism of the training exercise.
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