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As the Covid-19 situation continues to affect all of us around the world, Halldale Group has been forced to make the decision to distribute our publications through digital channels only for the remainder of 2020. Covid 19 has imposed many dramatic changes on us all with almost all... 14 April 2020
Designed to replicate ITEC for Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) customers, BISim’s VBS Technology Conference is a 3-day series of presentations and live demonstrations highlighting the latest developments in VBS4, VBS Blue IG and its suite of developer tools. In these one-hour presentations, BISim will give live demos of its... 9 April 2020
As the COVID-19 outbreak continues, many U.S. National Guard units throughout the country have turned to online and virtual training methods to maintain readiness while meeting social distancing protocols. “Right now, our priority remains protecting the force and the family [and] making sure our team’s health and safety is... 9 April 2020
With health care workers at the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, the demand for personal protective equipment is at an all-time high. To address this challenge, students at Camdenton High School are using 3D printers to help produce hundreds of face shields for health care workers at Lake... 9 April 2020
Web-based pandemic response training is available now through ATS’ ATSsim Suite, a collaborative platform to help organizations plan, prepare, and mitigate the impacts of a pandemic. ATSsim Suite is an online virtual collaborative environment where organizations and staff can develop and validate plans, conduct training and exercise events, gather... 9 April 2020
Leonardo has been awarded a contract by Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. to provide airborne communications systems, cockpit control panels and associated electronics for installation on-board PC-21 single-engine turboprop trainers being supplied to the Spanish Air Force (Ejército del Aire). The aircraft were ordered by the Spanish Ministry of Defense through... 9 April 2020
A challenge issued by the Montréal General Hospital Foundation and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, backed by a prize of C$200,000, has spurred engineers at flight simulator manufacturer CAE to design a prototype, easy-to-build ventilator. Ventilators are used to keep patients’ lungs supplied with oxygen... 8 April 2020
Micro Nav recently provided BAE Systems, Warton, UK with an upgrade to their existing ATC radar simulator. The ATC function at BAE Systems, Warton services a unique mix of civil, military and test flying. The upgrade consisted of a complete hardware refresh and an upgrade to the latest version... 8 April 2020
Barco is welcoming individuals to one of its upcoming free virtual classroom sessions. In knowledge and technology-based economies, teaching and learning are the foundations of future progress. But the digital revolution means that virtual real-time and face-to-face training is very much growing and has a big role to play... 7 April 2020
Presagis has released the OpenFlight to Unreal Engine (O2U) import tool. Currently available on the Unreal Engine Marketplace at no cost, the O2U tool allows users to leverage OpenFlight format (.flt) content into Unreal. Image credit: Presagis Through the O2U tool, content creators are able to convert and import... 7 April 2020
Medical professionals from the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM) are training medics at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, on the use of the Transport Isolation System (TIS) to move patients affected by COVID-19 aboard military cargo aircraft. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Alexander Cook... 7 April 2020
Raytheon Technologies Corporation has completed the all-stock merger of equals transaction between Raytheon Company and United Technologies Corporation following the completion by United Technologies of its previously announced spin-offs of its Carrier and Otis businesses. Upon closing of the merger, United Technologies’ name has changed to "Raytheon Technologies Corporation,"... 7 April 2020
HumanSim: Sedation and Airway, a 3D virtual trainer for administering emergency anesthesia and managing breathing for critically-injured or ill patients, is now available for free from Virtual Heroes to support healthcare workers as they adapt to unprecedented requirements in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Image credit: Virtual... 7 April 2020
Group editor Marty Kauchak reviews S&T trends and developments in Asia Pacific. 7 April 2020
The Levels of Fidelity (LoF) planning committee has postponed the biennial conference, originally scheduled for April in Boise, Idaho, due to travel concerns surrounding COVID-19. The training and simulation conference, which brings together members of industry, military and government civilian workforces from over 17 countries, is now scheduled for... 6 April 2020
Area9 Lyceum has successfully attained JOSCAR (Joint Supply Chain Accreditation Register) accreditation, used by the aerospace, defense and security industry to prequalify suppliers. JOSCAR, an initiative led by ADS Group, brings together prime contractors as registered buyers, as well as registered suppliers by invitation only. As a tool for... 6 April 2020
Trideum Corporation announces the hiring of Rod Summers as operations manager for the Huntsville, Alabama and Redstone markets. In this position, Summers will manage Trideum’s business portfolio in the area and pursue new business opportunities for the local company. “As Trideum continues to focus its efforts across our customer... 6 April 2020
The US Air Force is working to develop its Operational Training Structure (OTI) through the incorporation of LVC. Chuck Weirauch takes a look at the latest efforts to integrate the Live element into the LVC environment.
While US and joint training demonstrations have validated the concept of blended live-virtual-constructive (LVC)-based air combat training, the primary remaining challenge is the integration of virtual and constructive entities with front line aircraft Operational Flight Programs (OTFs) according to Michael Aldinger, Northrop Grumman manager of LVC Mission Integration.
Just how to “spoof” blue aircraft sensor systems into “believing” that the projected virtual and constructive entities they “see” on the training range are real adversary aircraft, missiles and ground elements and then showing them to the pilot of the aircraft on its screens and displays is the key to adding the “live” component to air combat LVC training. The means to accomplishing this goal is to modify the aircraft’s OTF so that it recognizes those projected false adversary virtual and constructive entities as what they were made up to be, rather than what they actually are. Multiple sources sending virtual and constructive false electronic entities into the range environment as adversaries can be added to increase the complexity and realism of the training exercise.
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U.S. Army builds synthetic battlefield to blend with live training in augmented reality, computer-generated or real-world, sensory content is placed over a soldier’s view of the real-world environment. 3 April 2020
After three years of resounding support from Commanders, Senior Instructor Pilots, and Master Gunners, the Apache Gunnery Trainer (AGT) is heading to the flight line at U.S. Army Ft Rucker, Alabama. Developed from previous AH-64 collective trainers sold internationally, refined to support the Air Cav Leader’s course and prototyped... 3 April 2020