BISim Announces First Military & Defense Industry VBS4 Customers
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Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) announced the Swedish Armed Forces and Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace as the first military and industry partners contracting to extensively utilize VBS4, BISim’s next generation virtual training environment and simulation host. BISim is showcasing VBS4 for the first time at I/ITSEC 2019 in Orlando, Florida, December 2-6, at its booth #2534.
VBS4 is a whole-earth virtual desktop trainer and simulationhost that allows you to create and run any imaginable military trainingscenario anywhere on Earth. VBS4 offers a massive step change in modularity,openness and ease-of-use as well as the performance and terrain enhancingcapability of BISim’s new engine, VBS Blue. VBS4’s new workflow andcapabilities enable users to start training faster, make edits and updates toscenarios and terrains with greater ease and collaboration, and simulatetraining scenarios anywhere on the virtual Earth.
The Swedish Armed Forces has awarded BISim a multi-yearenterprise license contract that will upgrade its VBS3 tactical trainingsoftware to VBS4, making the Swedish Army the military launch customer forBISim’s newest virtual desktop training product.
“The Swedish Army was one of the earliest customers forVBS3, and their move to upgrade to VBS4 continues Sweden’s tradition as apioneering and innovative force in the widespread use of virtual simulationacross a wide spectrum of training, underpinned by BISim technologies,” saidBISim CEO, Arthur Alexion.
As the VBS4 Industry launch customer, Kongsberg Defence& Aerospace has acquired a new portfolio of BISim technology products forits Advanced Research & Development Laboratories and plans to upgrade to VBS4.
“With BISim’s VBS4, VBS Simulation SDK and terrain tools,customers are able to rapidly build and prototype advanced systems withstate-of-the-art artificial intelligence, highly detailed and rapidly generatedterrains, against a broad spectrum of future end customer requirements,”Alexion said.
During the week of I/ITSEC 2019, BISim expects to makefurther announcements about additional launch customers.
