The Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific has adopted Kongsberg Digital's new K-Sim eLearning solution and commissioned installation of a K-Sim Safety firefighting simulator.

Morten Hasås will join Kongsberg Digital as Senior Vice President for Maritime Simulation.

Kongsberg Digital have launched a new cloud-based simulation service for maritime radar training.

After covering Gladiator in Issue 3/2020, the Royal Air Force’s synthetic training initiative, MS&T Europe Editor Dim Jones explores the Royal Navy’s equivalent programme.

MS&T readers will be aware of the plans for the future of synthetic training in the Royal Air Force under the Defence Operational Training Capability (Air) (DOTC(A)), also known as Gladiator. Similarly, the Royal Navy is looking to transform the way it trains its people and also the way in which it mans and deploys its forces. The Defence Operational Training Capability (Maritime) (DOTC(M)) is key to this transformation. I visited the home of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth to learn more from the RN and industry about plans for the maritime equivalent.

 

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The technology group Wärtsilä has received an order from Costamare Maritime Training Services centre in Greece for its advanced Cloud simulation solution.

The Australian Ministry of Defence has awarded a three-year, AU$7.5 million contract to Cirrus Real Time Processing Systems.

Seven NATO Allies participated in the NATO exercise Dynamic Mariner-20 off the coast of France.

The Indian Coast Guard will soon have its own training academy, with the Ministry of Defence recently having taken over 158 acres for the purpose.