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CAE has appointed Daniel Gelston as Group President, Defence & Security, effective August 24, 2020. 11 August 2020
MS&T Editor Andy Fawkes considers the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on the military
S&T community now and into the future. 10 August 2020
Educating and training US Military health professionals in various service branches is an enormous, complex task as MS&T’s Robert W. Moorman discovered. 10 August 2020
MS&T Army Correspondent Gareth Davies reports on how necessity and soldier expertise is driving innovation in the British Army. 10 August 2020
The international military simulation and training community has determined the year’s best of the best for the 2020 MS&T Awards. 10 August 2020
With the world now some months into the pandemic, MS&T’s Editor Andy Fawkes reports on developments in remote training and working during and beyond Covid-19.
“Remote Working”, “Working from Home”, “Teleworking”, once minority ways of working have in the space of weeks become commonplace and with some employees unlikely to return to offices anytime soon. In 2019 a UK ONS study reported that just over 5% of the total workforce worked mainly from home, and in June 2020 this had risen to 49%. Similar trends have taken place across the world because of Covid-19 and words such as “Zoom” have entered day to day language. Live events and exhibitions have moved wholesale online. The pandemic has accelerated the digitalization of the workplace and remote work has become a new reality, making connectivity, speed, reliability, cybersecurity, and undisrupted access essential elements of organizations. Further, a whole generation of children, future recruits, and employees, are experiencing remote education and schooling over an extended period.
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The U.S. Army’s Synthetic Training Environment Cross-Functional Team soon plans to unveil new labs where it can tap into the innovation of vendors that could one day improve individual and collective training. 7 August 2020
British technology company Improbable’s Defence business has secured a contract with the British Army to supply its synthetic environment platform as a pathfinder technology demonstrator project for the Army’s Collective Training Transformation Programme. 6 August 2020
Two games created for use in military or government training programs have been awarded for their excellence in the 2020 International Serious Play Awards Program. 4 August 2020
Airborne Tactical Advantage Company, part of the Textron Systems segment of Textron Inc, has been selected to provide two U.S. Air Force bases with adversary air live training under the Combat Air Forces Contracted Air Support program. 4 August 2020
More than 4,000 participants from the US and ally and partner nations will participate in Saber Junction 20 at the US Army’s Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels training areas from 3-27 August, 2020. 3 August 2020
Cobra adds precision cut outs to the Cobra180® product line that improves immersion. 1 August 2020
Cubic Global Defense has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantitycontract worth more than $99 million to support the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division’s Surface Training Immersive Gaming and Simulations effort and the development, delivery and total life cycle support of a new virtual environment training system. 31 July 2020
Street Smarts VR has announced a contract with US Air Force Global Strike Command Security Forces to support the adoption of innovative commercial technologies for military use. 30 July 2020
Pinnacle Solutions has launched its Virtual X Training product line to address the growing demand for virtual training solutions. 29 July 2020
Centrik has been selected by QinetiQ to provide comprehensive operational management support to the Empire Test Pilots’ School as part of its complex civilian and military flight test training programmes. 29 July 2020
Ultra has won a Joint Interface Control Cell Extended Trainer contract for the delivery of advanced trainers to support National Guard Warfighter objectives. 28 July 2020
PLEXSYS recently participated in the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) Virtual Pitch Black (VPB) exercise. 27 July 2020
One of the most significant US Navy training projects in development is Carrier-Advanced Reconfigurable Training Systems. The project is designed to immerse the crews of this sea service’s carriers into next generation learning experiences. Group Editor Marty Kauchak reports. 26 July 2020
Group editor Marty Kauchak provides an update on one successful pilot project which is advancing the business case to invest in AR technologies for US Navy learning audiences. 26 July 2020