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Vectrus Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of Vectrus, won an $84 million U.S. Air Force contract to provide base maintenance support services for the Air Education and Training Command (AETC Sheppard Air Force Base (AFB), Texas. Vectrus will provide support for Installation Management, Operations and Maintenance, Installation Engineering, and Emergency Management. 24 May 2018
The U.S. Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Gonzalez conducted combined operations with the multipurpose Italian frigate ITS Alpino in May. The training was designed to promote camaraderie and collaboration among NATO partners. "The crew exchange was highly beneficial to both Gonzalez's crew and Alpino's, giving rare insight into each other's daily... 24 May 2018
Maryland National Guard cyberwarriors worked with their Estonian counterparts during Exercise Hedgehog 2018, also known as Exercise Siil 2018 locally and by NATO. Estonian police, border forces and emergency management personnel participated along with members of the Michigan and Oklahoma National Guard. With the cooperation from 15 NATO allied forces,... 24 May 2018
Bell Helicopter, a Textron company, opened its new Advanced Vertical Lift Center (AVLC) in Washington, D.C. that provides a setting for military customers, partners and policy makers to interact with new technology that is defining the future of vertical lift (FVL). Bell says it is increasing its presence in the... 23 May 2018
Charles River Analytics, a developer of systems solutions, is using its Cyber Adversary Modeling and Simulation toolkit, CyMod, to construct a cyber defense tool that models realistic behavior for the United States Air Force. The company is also using its probabilistic programming language, Figaro™, to build relational models of network... 23 May 2018
MASS led a Joint Warfare (JW) support team that delivered two Joint Forces Command training events at HQ (Headquarters) British Forces Cyprus and at RAF (Royal Air Force) St. Mawgan in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The exercise Joint Horizon 18 (JH18) and Joint Venture 18 (JV18) were two separate events running... 23 May 2018
MS&T released the 17th Annual Industry Simulation & Training Awards program that recognizes the contribution of companies in supporting warfighter readiness across the current calendar year. There are five new award categories this year including Outstanding Innovative Product; Outstanding Service and Support; Outstanding Training System Integration Project; Small Business of... 22 May 2018
Airbus Helicopters will offer its H135 helicopter as the solution for the U.S. Navy’s planned helicopter trainer replacement program. The H135 trainer aircraft offers advanced technologies that provide a platform for training missions for instructor pilots. As a twin-engine helicopter, the H135 provides a training environment similar to the Navy’s... 21 May 2018
Systems Engineering and Assessment Ltd (SEA) led an industry team that delivered findings on the future of modelling and simulation to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence. The core Architectures, Interoperability and Management of Simulations (AIMS) delivery team of SEA, BAE Systems, QinetiQ and Thales conducted research tasks related to... 21 May 2018
Cubic Corporation’s Cubic Global Defense business division and 4C Strategies formed a partnership to cooperate in the development and delivery of next-generation training and readiness capabilities. They will integrate products, services and solutions for shared customers and provide open and scalable training solutions with a focus on customer outcomes, rather... 18 May 2018
QuantaDyn Corporation released QFires Portable, a ROMADS (Radio-Operator-Maintainer and Drivers) video receiver Emulated Military Equipment (EME) product. QuantaDyn says it’s the first EME device that lets users switch between different aircraft video downlink feeds during distributed and stand-alone simulation training. The QFires Portable gives students a familiar fielded-receiver interface. QFires... 18 May 2018
Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim), a developer of military simulation and training software; reached an agreement with Pitch Technologies, a supplier of commercial tools and services; to bundle Pitch Talk with BISim's desktop training software products starting with VBS3. VBS3 is a desktop training package based on commercial video game technology. 18 May 2018
Seaspan Marine entered into a five-year, multi-million-dollar agreement with SeaWays Global, a provider of marine training and tugboat simulations. SeaWays will provide competency-based marine training and tugboat simulation in support of the Seaspan’s ship escort, ship assist and towing services. The agreement includes the installation of a multi-console tugboat simulator... 16 May 2018
Lockheed Martin received a $23.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy for follow-on production of Enhanced Laser-Guided Training Rounds (ELGTRs) to support the Paveway™ II Laser-Guided Bomb (LGB) weapons training. The award extends ELGTR production into late 2020. “ELGTR is the only proven low-cost, guided trainer for Paveway II Laser-Guided... 16 May 2018
The Australian Army signed another two-year license agreement for the Titan Vanguard simulation environment it has been using for the past two years to have a synthetic environment in a variety of simulators across each of the three services. This new agreement places Vanguard in the heart of the Army’s... 15 May 2018
Esterline Simulation Visual Systems, a business of Esterline Corporation, won multiple contracts from L3 Technologies to continue supporting the United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 Mission Training Center (MTC) program. Esterline has been supporting the program since 2012. The contracts include 99 latest-generation SIM7 high-contrast LCoS projectors with built-in image... 15 May 2018
CAE USA won a contract to provide the United States Navy Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA) with Contract Instruction Services (CIS) that will support the delivery of ground-based training. Under the five-year contract, CAE will provide classroom simulator instructors to support primary, intermediate and advanced pilot training at five... 15 May 2018
VT MAK released an update to its suite of simulation software, including products: VR-Forces, VR-Vantage and VR-Engage. All three products share software technology that creates advantages for customers, according to the company, which says the visual quality of VR-Vantage permeates VR-Forces’ 3-D views, bringing better visual correlation to your computer-generated... 15 May 2018
Cubic Corporation’s Global Defense (CGD) business division received $16 million worth of orders from a U.S. Navy contract for immersive game-based courseware to support the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). Cubic’s development efforts of the Immersive Virtual Shipboard Environment (IVSE) learning product for LCS are in alignment with the Navy’s... 14 May 2018
The DiSTI Corporation, a provider of graphical user interface development software, released GL Studio 6.2, its user interface development toolkit for performance, fidelity and reliability. GL Studio is used to produce high-performing reliable 2D/3D graphical user interfaces. This release offers more than 30 enhancements so non-programmers can create complex user... 14 May 2018