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Design Interactive Inc. (DI) will be exhibiting at the U.S. Air Force Association (AFA)’s Air Warfare Symposium taking place in Orlando Florida, from February 26th – 28th at the Rosen Shingle Creek. Image credit: Design Interactive DI will be showcasing AUGMENTOR, an augmented reality (AR) maintenance tool originally developed... 20 February 2020
As the Air Force continues to evolve to meet the challenges of a constantly evolving global security environment, the 82nd Training Wing is working to transform maintenance and logistics technical training. About 44% of the Air Force’s technical training is accomplished at the 82nd Training Wing, said Kenyon Bell, 82nd... 20 February 2020
As the Air Force continues to evolve to meet the challenges of a constantly evolving global security environment, the 82nd Training Wing is working to transform maintenance and logistics technical training. Airman 1st Class Christine Smith and Airman 1st Class Kaylie Cunningham, 364th Training Squadron electrical and environmental apprentice... 19 February 2020
The Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Leadership Summit is an event sponsored by the National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA) in support of the Modeling and Simulation Congressional Caucus. The purpose of the event is to bring the M&S Community of Practice together to discuss important issues related to modeling... 19 February 2020
Columbus Air Force Base’s Innovation Flight has continued its efforts to integrate virtual reality (VR) technology into pilot training, creating pilots for the U.S. Air Force faster. The Innovation Flight’s ambitions are to cultivate skills such as situational awareness, risk management, decision making and to augment the training student... 18 February 2020
As Britain finalises Brexit and leaves the European union, Cobra Simulation is busy building new partnerships across northern, central and eastern Europe. At the end of January its business development team, alongside several other SME exporters and staff from Scottish Development International, travelled to Warsaw, Poland, on a Scottish... 18 February 2020
Brad Thress, FlightSafety International President and CEO. Image credit: FlightSafety International. Brad Thress has joined the FlightSafety International company as President and CEO. He assumes this responsibility from David Davenport who has left FlightSafety. “I am honored to join FlightSafety International and look forward to leading this exceptional company,”... 17 February 2020
Alion Science and Technology has been awarded a $248 million contract for the U.S. Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE), Integrating Architecture Development. This contract has a 48-month period of performance. Alion will provide research, development, test and engineering to develop and integrate new and enhanced training architecture and systems... 14 February 2020
CAE USA recently achieved the AS9100 certification for its quality management system. AS9100 is the International Quality Management System standard specifically for the aerospace and defense industry. Steve Baigrie, Vice President, Operations holds the formal AS9100 certificate recently awarded to CAE USA. Image credit: CAE USA. The AS9100 quality standard... 13 February 2020
Gen. John M. Murray, Army Futures Command commanding general, visited the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center (CCDC SC) at the Natick Soldier Systems Center in Massachusetts. Staff. Sgt. Christian Lincoln-King (pictured here center) uses a Soldier Born Sensor System that enables Soldiers to gain improved situational... 13 February 2020
Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. (Pinnacle) was awarded the U.S. Air Force Simulator Lateral Axis Motion (SLAM) Engineering Change Proposal under the KC-10 Training Systems contract. The company has also been tasked with relocating multiple KC-10 simulators. Image credit: Pinnacle Solutions. The Pinnacle Team comprised of Pinnacle as the prime with... 13 February 2020
ITPS Canada has launched a division dedicated to tactical training with a major contract to train fighter pilots from the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF). The first course of students began training in January 2020 at the International Tactical Training Center. The second course of 10 students will begin... 13 February 2020
MASA Group has signed a major contract with the Spanish Army for the use of MASA SWORD. It includes the acquisition and full customization to the Spanish requirements of SWORD, MASA’s flagship constructive simulation software. SWORD is an automated, aggregated, constructive simulation designed to improve training, analysis, and decision... 12 February 2020
The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine is developing a training program with the University of Nebraska Medical Center through the Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills Omaha program to best prepare medical airmen to respond to infectious disease threats that could impact military personnel and... 11 February 2020
ThirdEye, an augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) enterprise solutions company, has partnered with 3D Media, a technology development firm that specializes in virtual and augmented reality solutions for the enterprise, to improve training and human performance for flight line maintainers and flight crews for one of the... 11 February 2020
PLEXSYS’ Director of Advanced Technologies, Dr. Alex Streit, will be presenting his paper “DAAPR: Distributed Debriefing in Heterogeneous Environments” at the 2020 Simulation Innovation Workshop (SIW) February 10 – 14, 2020. Image credit: PLEXSYS Whether multi-crew first responder training or large-scale multi-national defense exercises, total mission effectiveness starts at... 11 February 2020
Inzpire Limited will provide planning and operational management to the UK Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA) during its UK flight trials of unmanned aerial systems. The trials will demonstrate the advantages of using long-range unmanned capabilities in civilian airspace. "This is a huge opportunity for Inzpire," said Paul Rolfe, Inzpire’s... 11 February 2020
The CESIHEL of the Spanish Army Aviation Academy (ACAVIET) has reached 50,000 flight hours with Indra-developed simulators. The centre has Chinook, Cougar, Tiger and EC135 helicopter simulator models and, since last October, the NH90 helicopter. Indra say the NH90 is the most sophisticated simulator it has developed for a... 11 February 2020
QinetiQ Group plc, a military technology company, have purchased England-based sim training specialists Newman & Spurr Consultancy Limited (NSC). The £14m deal will allow NSC to pursue larger contracts and take larger roles within them. Further, NSC can leverage existing functional support and business infrastructure that will be key... 11 February 2020
The seventeenth annual Omega Close Air Support (CAS) conference took place at the Hilton Hotel, Reading – west of London, UK – on 20th and 21st November 2019. MS&T’s Dim Jones went along to see and hear. In continuance of the very successful arrangement established over the past couple... 10 February 2020