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7 April 2025 MS&T’s Andy Fawkes reported from IT2EC 2025, where urgency and readiness dominated every conversation.
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BAE Systems’ Pioneer wargaming platform will use Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing enabled services to deliver more realism in the platform’s high fidelity simulations providing customers increased confidence in decision making. 30 November 2022
Hadean is set to collaborate with Microsoft and power the digital transformation of the defence industrial base with scalable, interoperable, and secure cloud-based military training capabilities. 30 November 2022
Unreal Engine, an open and advanced 3D game engine developed by Epic Games, is engaged in a long-term research and development effort with Lockheed Martin to create more realistic simulation solutions. 30 November 2022
The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) is a “system of systems” envisioned as swarming drones and a sixth-generation fighter to replace France’s Rafales, Germany’s Typhoons, and Spain’s EF-18 Hornets. 30 November 2022
This new capability means that large numbers of Simthetiq’s high fidelity, DIS/HLA compliant 3D simulation entity models can be deployed in Unreal Engine 5 environments that use the Nanite system, in an optimised but visually compelling way. 30 November 2022
Quantum3D Inc. is now offering Level D capable Training solution, a system bundle with hardware, software, and visual content. 30 November 2022
Rheinmetall together with Capita, Cervus, Improbable Defence has joined the Raytheon UK-led team, Omnia Training. Omnia Training is an industrial team that will be bidding to become the Strategic Training Partner for the British Army’s Collective Training Transformation Programme (CTTP). 29 November 2022
BAE Systems will collaborate with Red 6 to explore the integration of the Advanced Tactical Augmented Reality Systems (ATARS) onto the Hawk fast jet trainer aircraft. This will enable pilots to identify, engage and defeat virtual threats and cooperate with virtual wingmen. 29 November 2022
Group Editor Marty Kauchak provides impressions from his walkabout of I/ITSEC conference rooms and the exhibition floor. 29 November 2022
The US Defense Department is experiencing its most severe recruiting challenges in more than a generation. The services are moving forward with a diverse set of solutions to not only recruit but retain servicemen and-women. Group Editor Marty Kauchak reviews some developments. 29 November 2022
Any thought of the US taking its policy eyes off the Pacific Rim during the ongoing Ukraine-Russia War should be set aside following US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin’s just-concluded visit to Cambodia where he attended the 9th ASEAN Ministers’ Meeting. Austin reaffirmed the US’s commitment to working with ASEAN to address the complex set of challenges confronting the region – from terrorism to nuclear proliferation to maritime security threats. 29 November 2022
ST Engineering Antycip is back in-person at I/ITSEC 2022 supporting its sister company, MAK Technologies. 29 November 2022
SimCentric Technologies is exhibiting at I/ITSEC 2022 on Booth #1580 in Orlando, Florida, from 28 November – 1 December. With a dedicated focus on “Enabling the Warfighter”, SimCentric is demonstrating its technologies used globally across NATO and 5-Eyes nations. 29 November 2022
A British-led defence alliance has used Systematic’s battle management software to enable the command and control of a two-week multi-national exercise. 29 November 2022
Finnish professional-grade VR/XR hardware and software maker Varjo (I/ITSEC booth 3010) unveiled its XR-3 Focal Edition headset, which the company says "provides superior visual quality for mixed reality implementations where real-world objects such as cockpits, car dashboards, cell phones, and kneeboards are used.” 29 November 2022
Treality Simulation Visual Systems (I/ITSEC Booth 1949) has received awards from three unnamed customers in Europe and the Middle East for RP-X displays for fast-jet full mission simulators. 28 November 2022
QinetiQ (I/ITSEC booth 1370), KBR (booth 2308) and PA Consulting have formed Team Paladin to compete for the British Army’s upcoming Collective Training Transformation Programme (CTTP). 28 November 2022
CAE has continued to refine its approach to building flight simulators, aiming not only for higher fidelity, but for a much-shortened development period. 28 November 2022
A team led by Lockheed Martin (I/ITSEC booths 689 & 1748) will support cyber readiness and training for up to 17,000 US Army civilian cyber personnel under an Other Transaction Agreement awarded by the US Army. 28 November 2022
As delegates and exhibitors trek to 2022 I/ITSEC, Major General Shawn N. Bratton, Commander, Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM), shared insights and perspectives on his portfolio with MS&T Group Editor Marty Kauchak. 28 November 2022