With ongoing war in Europe and global tensions rising, there was a serious edge to IT²EC 2023 in Rotterdam. MS&T Special Correspondent Andy Fawkes attended.

BAE Systems, an aerospace and defense company, and Heart Aerospace, a Swedish electric airplane maker, are collaborating to define the battery system for Heart's ES-30 regional electric airplane. 

The Ministry of Defence has awarded BAE Systems and Pitch Technologies UK a contract to support the British Army to deliver a new virtual training programme.

BAE Systems and Flight Simulation Technique Centre have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in which the companies will develop a Twin Dome Full Mission Simulator for BAE Systems’ Hawk Mk132 fast jet trainer aircraft.

BAE Systems’ Pioneer wargaming platform will use Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing enabled services to deliver more realism in the platform’s high fidelity simulations providing customers increased confidence in decision making.

BAE Systems will collaborate with Red 6 to explore the integration of the Advanced Tactical Augmented Reality Systems (ATARS) onto the Hawk fast jet trainer aircraft. This will enable pilots to identify, engage and defeat virtual threats and cooperate with virtual wingmen.  

VRAIs ReACT VR Armour Crew Sim has won the prestigious Military Simulation & Training Award for Outstanding XR Application by a small company. The award was announced in MS&T Magazine’s I/ITSEC conference edition on 21 November and was demonstrated at the I/ITSEC conference at the Microsoft Defence & Intelligence stand, with whom VRAI has partnered with to bring next-generation simulation solutions to military end users.

BAE Systems and training specialists Inzpire will work together to explore the development of next generation military training.

BAE Systems and Supernal have entered into an agreement to design and develop the flight control computer for Supernal’s electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing vehicle.

BAE Systems and VR simulation company, VRAI, will work together to use virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) to explore the next generation of training for the military forces of tomorrow.