Editor Andy Fawkes considers the opportunities and challenges of training data exploitation.

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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As the tempo of US Navy’s Pacific Fleet operations increases, it is deploying the latest methods and technologies to enhance and accelerate training. MS&T’s Chuck Weirauch reports.

With one eye on probable decreases in defense budgets for European forces, government-industry teams continue to quickly increase the breadth of technology offerings for military training audiences. Group Editor Marty Kauchak reviews S&T trends and developments in Europe.

With the increasing digitisation of the battlefield and greater automation, the crew of armoured fighting vehicles must be trained in ever more complex scenarios. MS&T Guest Writer Dr. Trevor Dobbins explores the role of simulation and the move from analogue to digital. 

Group Editor Marty Kauchak provides a high-level glimpse of rapidly evolving defense S&T trends and programs in Asia.

Asian military services are using learning technologies to strengthen their readiness levels across their mission sets. At one end of the spectrum, new training and education systems are supporting the introduction of the fifth-generation F-35A to the Royal Australian Air Force. At the same time, regional defense forces are using wargame-like solutions to allow their units and staffs to prepare for tasks in and beyond warfighting domains. Further to these trends, the overarching, major development to which simulation and training (S&T) companies, beyond and from the region, are responding is the expanding, insatiable demand for products and services by diverse Asian customers – hardware OEMs, defense departments and other government organizations, and others. This feature article selectively reviews developments in the Asian Pacific S&T defense market space through the regional portfolios of four industry companies.

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As new and upgraded platforms come into service in India, training systems and services are also being enhanced, but the sourcing of equipment from a variety of nations has its own integration challenges. MS&T's Asia and Pacific correspondent Atul Chandra reports.

Group Editor Marty Kauchak provides highlights of the US Air Force’s quickly evolving “Rebuilding the Forge” Concept of Operations that aims to dramatically cut the time to train.

It seems that most tech company CEOs are mentioning the metaverse this year. What is the metaverse, why is it important and is the military already building it? MS&T Editor Andy Fawkes reports.

Vice Admiral Roy Kitchener, Commander, Naval Surface Forces/Naval Surface Force US Pacific Fleet assumed command this 3 August. On 24 September, the service’s surface warfare community leader responded to a wide range of questions from Halldale Group Editor Marty Kauchak.

This 26 October, Andy Smith, President, Halldale Media, Andy Fawkes, Editor, MS&T, Rick Adams, Editor, CAT and Marty Kauchak, Halldale Group Editor, completed a wide-ranging interview with Daniel Gelston, Group President of CAE's Defence & Security Group.

In the second of three articles on UK Armed Forces Officer Training, MS&T’s Dim Jones visited the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, located in the town of Camberley on the Berkshire-Surrey border some thirty miles south-west of London.

In a normal year the MS&T team would attend conferences in person and report on the proceedings. This year, we have not travelled, but logged in. As well as congratulating the organisers for delivering the conferences in a whole new way, what did we learn from the conferences and the pros and cons of these virtual events?