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Readiness for the arrival of the UK's first F-35 Lightning II jets took another step forward with the awarding of a contract by the US Department of Defense F-35 Joint Program Office worth more than £80m (US$102.2m) to Lockheed Martin to deliver the initial training, engineering maintenance and logistics support... 3 April 2017
AEgis Technologies named Anthony (Tony) Krogh as its new Director of Business Development. Krogh will focus on growing AEgis’ business at key sites regionally, while also serving as the AEgis Orlando office lead. Krogh joins AEgis following several years as a senior program manager at Lockheed Martin and 30 years’... 31 March 2017
CAE has signed a contract with the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) to provide comprehensive training services, including instructors, for the NATO E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircrew training program at NATO Airbase Geilenkirchen in Germany. The new contract, with options to extend up to five years,... 31 March 2017
Simlat has delivered a full crew solution for UAS training and simulation to Macquarie University for research purposes. The C-STAR simulation alongside Simlat's PANEL module (Performance Analysis & Evaluation suite) supports the Human Factors research for UAS operators at Macquarie. The Simlat PANEL is a module which enables automatic performance... 29 March 2017
A contract worth more than a million Euros will provide advanced Eurofighter Typhoon simulator visual systems to the Royal Air Force. BAE Systems has awarded the contract to Esterline to provide advanced Eurofighter Typhoon simulator visual systems, based in Kortrijk, Belgium, further strengthening a relationship spanning more than 10 years on... 29 March 2017
UFA, a provider of Air Traffic Simulation and Voice Technologies, was selected by the Austrian Armed Forces to deliver an ATTower ® ATC Training Solution to Langenlebarn Air Base. The turnkey UFA solution includes the ATTower software product suite, hardware, consoles and 3D aerodrome visual model. UFA will deliver a... 27 March 2017
Damen signed an agreement with VSTEP for the delivery of a NAUTIS Full Mission Bridge Simulator with Alphatron Marine equipment to the Royal Bahamas Defence Force. The delivery is part of the Sandy Bottom Project that will have the Defence Force acquire a range of Damen patrol vessels, upgrade its... 23 March 2017
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NGC) Amherst Systems business unit delivered a Combat Electromagnetic Environment Simulator (CEESIM) to SAAB AB, Surveillance in Jarfalla, Sweden. CEESIM will perform aircraft testing on the Gripen JAS 39 multirole fighter. The CEESIM system includes the advanced pulse generation (APG) capability, which uses the latest digital technology... 23 March 2017
Completing the first major delivery under the New Zealand ANZAC Frigate System Upgrade Project, prime systems integrator Lockheed Martin Canada and Chief of Navy Rear Admiral John Martin have officially opened the New Zealand ANZAC combat system trainer. The combat system trainer was delivered ahead of schedule to the Maritime... 23 March 2017
Thales was selected to deliver an FNPT II (Flight and Navigation Procedures Trainer) simulator to the Royal Malaysian Air Force for the purposes of initial training. The simulator, delivered to the company Gading Kasturi, has been in operation since December. The flight and navigation training simulator for H120 helicopters is a... 23 March 2017
Military, police forces, and other government agencies have used unmanned ground robots for many years to go into harsh environments that may be unsafe for humans. Unfortunately, many of these robots, while essential, have proven to be expensive and to have long-term reliability issues. To address this challenge, Realion Robotics... 21 March 2017
Defense Conseil International (DCI), the reference operator of the French ministry of defence for the international transfer of French military know-how, has created Helang Flying Academy, the first regional helicopter training centre in Malaysia, in a joint venture with Major Flagship Sdn Bhd (MFSB). The joint venture, the first involving... 21 March 2017
4C Strategies has been chosen to be part of the delivery of the new Unit Based Virtual Trainer (UBVT) to the British Army. UBVT will enable units to collectively practice fire and manoeuvre, command and control, and tactics, techniques and procedures in a realistic synthetic environment. UBVT will manage and... 21 March 2017
Founded on Saint Patrick's Day in 1947, CAE launched a year of celebrations on Friday with its 8,000 employees worldwide to commemorate its 70th anniversary. CAE is today a global training company headquartered in Montreal. Employees in each of CAE's 160 sites around the world will participate in celebrations which... 20 March 2017
Charles River Analytics - CRA Inc., the developer of intelligent systems solutions, has announced a contract to build a virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) training interface for the US Army, as part of continued efforts in advanced, agile, customer-focused engineering. The two-year contract for a Virtual Interface for Real-Time User... 20 March 2017
An official partnership agreement has been signed by SMR Links Consultants and VSTEP, making SMR Links the exclusive partner of the NAUTIS maritime simulators and RescueSim Incident Command Simulator in the UAE Region. Through SMR Links, VSTEP has officially made available its simulator solutions to major stakeholders in the UAE... 20 March 2017
Diamond Visionics released its latest GenesisRTX version, 10.5.1, with some major technology upgrades and new feature enhancements that focus on a number of core areas, including new options for zooming, dynamic visibility controls, improved entity tracking and others. Diamond Visionics’ GenesisRTX worldwide database generation system provides cutting-edge visualization and manipulation... 17 March 2017
Cubic Global Defense (CGD), a business unit of Cubic Corporation, won a contract worth more than $42 million from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to support live, virtual and constructive (LVC) training services for the Joint Readiness Training Center’s (JRTC) Operations Group at Fort Polk, Louisiana. Cubic will support rotational... 16 March 2017
CAE’s Defence and Security business unit expanded its operations in the United Arab Emirates by moving to new facilities in Abu Dhabi. The offices in Abu Dhabi will house staff from CAE and CAE Maritime Middle East LLC, CAE's local UAE-based company that is serving as the prime contractor and... 13 March 2017
United States Marine Corps and Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces conducted aerial integration training using the Marines’ MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft and Japanese CH-47 Chinook helicopters during exercise Forest Light 17-1 in the Soumagahara training area of Gunma prefecture, Japan on March 10, 2017. This portion of the exercise familiarized both nations'... 13 March 2017