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MILO Range Training Systems, part of Arotech Corporation’s Training and Simulation Division, received $2.5-million in new U.S. Air Force (USAF) awards. MILO will provide its training systems including the MILO Range Theater 300, MILO Range Theater 180 and MILO Range Advanced to train U.S. Air Force (USAF) security forces. It... 24 October 2018
QinetiQ Group plc agreed to become a majority investor in Inzpire Limited with an 85 percent ownership and an agreement for QinetiQ to acquire the remaining 15 percent after two years. Inzpire, a defense services and training provider, will be able to expand its product and service offerings to a... 23 October 2018
PLEXSYS won the Enhanced Control and Reporting Center (CRC) contract from the U.S. Air Force to deliver hardware, software and technical support services to Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma that will enable battlespace simulation in the Air Force’s existing operational command and control (C2) system. PLEXSYS will also provide... 23 October 2018
CAE launched the CAE Medallion MR e-Series Visual System, a complete and turnkey visual solution designed specifically for military fighter and fast-jet training. The company says the new visual system is a cost-effective, fully-integrated visual solution that includes a back-projection 360-degree dome display system, laser projectors and CAE MedallionTM image... 23 October 2018
U.S. Air Force officials activated the Special Warfare Training Wing (SWTW) at Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) in Texas to meet the demand for special operations warfighters and improve retention rates for these career fields. The mission of the new wing is to select, train, equip and mentor Airmen to... 22 October 2018
The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM) set up the Air Force’s first operational training program to prepare Air Force mental health care providers, technicians and social workers to join Integrated Operational Support (IOS) teams at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The program opened in May to give... 22 October 2018
Saab received an order from Boeing for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase of the T-X Advanced Pilot Training Aircraft. The T-X program is divided into multiple phases, and the order is for the first phase. The order is valued at MUSD 117.6. and will run until 2022. In... 19 October 2018
Advanced Simulation Technology inc. (ASTi), under contract with L3 Technologies, provided its Voisus voice communication equipment for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Secure Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) Advanced Training Environment (SLATE) project. SLATE technologies integrate live aircraft, pilots in simulators and computer-generated forces to increase the realism and... 18 October 2018
PULAU Corporation selected Bagira Systems to be part of Team PULAU (with PULAU Corp. as the prime contractor and its team of 15 subcontractors) to provide training and training services throughout the assimilation and operation stages of the Enterprise Training Services Contract (ETSC) from the U.S. Army's Contracting Command and... 17 October 2018
REMBRANDT, BMT’s integrated navigation and maneuvering simulator suite, was awarded Class A, B and C certification from DNV GL, a global quality assurance and risk management company. This classification award verifies BMT as a quality manufacturer offering a simulator system that complies with STCW 78 and the DNVGL-ST-0033 Maritime Simulator... 17 October 2018
Simjet Training Systems won a contract with the Commonwealth of Australia to provide the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) Aviation Candidate Management Centre (ACMC) with two Super Hornet simulators, support staff and other peripheral training aids. ACMC conducts National Aviation Motivational Programs to attract Officer Aviation candidates to consider the... 17 October 2018
Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim), a developer of advanced military training and simulation software, won an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) extension from the U.S. Army to demonstrate technologies for a cloud-enabled, virtual world training capability to meet the requirements of the Army’s revolutionary Synthetic Training Environment (STE) initiative. The goal of... 16 October 2018
Advanced Simulation Technology inc. (ASTi), a provider of networked voice, radio-over-IP and military training and simulation solutions, says its Voisus® product line was granted a significant U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) information assurance (IA) accreditation that gives ASTi’s Voisus products “Authority to Operate (ATO)” status in full compliance with the... 16 October 2018
FlightSafety International named David Davenport and Ray Johns the company’s new Co-CEOs, succeeding Bruce Whitman, who passed away October 10, 2018. Davenport will also serve as President, Commercial, and Ray as President, Government and Manufacturing. In addition to serving as Co-CEOs, Davenport will continue to oversee all aspects of FlightSafety’s... 15 October 2018
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc., a national security solutions provider, won $30-million contract scope increases for several of its existing training contracts with unnamed customers. Kratos Senior Vice President, Jose Diaz says with these awards, Kratos will provide training that will sharpen warfighter resiliency, increase real mission preparedness, improve... 15 October 2018
Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS) promoted Jeffrey Huber to Vice President of Operations for its Huntsville, Alabama office. Huber is a retired U.S. Army pilot with more than 24 years of aviation leadership; he joined ECS in 2017 as the Director of Operations. Huber is a subject-matter expert on the... 12 October 2018
Saab received an order from the General Tadeusz Kosciuszko Military University of Land Forces (AWL) in Wroclaw, Poland to expand its GAMER laser-based training capability (LSS) with a new Laser Tactical Simulator (LTS) system. The LTS will help AWL increase the functionalities of its current GAMER live training system and... 12 October 2018
Bruce Whitman, Chairman, President & CEO of FlightSafety International, passed away on October 10, 2018 at the age of 85. FlightSafety says Whitman will be remembered with great admiration and affection. He was highly-respected and held in the utmost regard by those in the company and the industry. Whitman joined... 11 October 2018
TraumaFX, a division of Kforce Government Solutions Inc. and a provider of ruggedized human and canine medical training simulators, delivered its first phase of shipments for its Tactical Combat Casualty Care – Exportable (TC3X) medical simulators to the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI)... 11 October 2018
VT MÄK added a new role - a Sensor Operator to its VR-Engage multi-role virtual simulator. VR-Engage lets you play the role of a first-person human character; a vehicle driver, gunner or commander; or the pilot of an airplane or helicopter – and now – a Sensor Operator. Using... 11 October 2018