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Group Editor Marty Kauchak reports on how CAE is responding to COVID-19 in its civil and defense sectors together with reporting on wider S&T Industry initiatives from Thales, VT MAK, Bohemia Interactive Simulations and Pitch Technologies. 4 May 2020
NATO has tapped into its pool of defence scientists – the largest such network in the world - to support the COVID-19 emergency response. The NATO Chief Scientist, Dr Bryan Wells, has launched the “NATO Chief Scientist Challenge”, calling for solutions in virus detection, improved situational awareness, decontamination, resilience... 4 May 2020
Special Tactics Airmen from the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron conducted interoperability training with the 14th Weapons Squadron assigned to the U.S. Air Force Weapons School detachment at Hurlburt Field, Florida, for a special operations force exercise. U.S. Air Force Special Tactics operators spread out on a berm to provide... 30 April 2020
The first 10 startups to participate in the U.S. Air Force Lab with MassChallenge, a two-year pilot project designed to increase non-traditional participation in Small Business Innovative Research program opportunities, were selected April 24. Christian Melton, center, senior partnerships manager for MassChallenge Boston, discusses the U.S. Air Force Lab... 30 April 2020
The Joint Systems Integration Lab (JSIL) has ordered 171 new MetaVR Virtual Reality Scene Generator (VRSG) licenses for the MALET-JSIL Aircrew Trainer (MJAT) training capability. The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper RPAS flies over virtual geopsecific 3D terrain in MetaVR’s Virtual Reality Scene Generator (MetaVR image). The MetaVR real-time 3D... 30 April 2020
Meggitt Training Systems has been awarded a $78-million contract for the design and equipage of a sophisticated, multi-mission, indoor and outdoor training facility in a Middle Eastern country incorporating the latest virtual and live-fire equipment. Image credit: Meggitt Training Systems The training facility will include multiple indoor and outdoor... 30 April 2020
Canadian pilot school, International Pilot Academy, has become another academy in the country to launch FlightLogger’s flight school management and operations platform. Under normal circumstances, FlightLogger flies out from its base in Aarhus, Denmark to carry out the setup and training during a tightly packed two-day session. This time,... 30 April 2020
Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, is partnering with commercial tech companies Red Hat and VMware to pursue Cyber TRIDENT, a critical training platform for the U.S. Military’s Cyber Mission Force. The contract, valued at up to $957 million, is expected to be awarded in early 2021. 30 April 2020
Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group One (SNMCMG1) completed training with the Finnish Navy over two days at the end of April. The Finnish Navy's Coastal Fleet held the International Mine Countermeasures Exercise in the Archipelago Sea, with participants from the Finnish Navy’s 4th Mine Countermeasures Squadron and SNMCMG1. The... 30 April 2020
One positive element about the current situation is having a bit more time to do documentation. The global simulator manufacturer ALSIM is taking advantage of this unique time of lockdowns and restricted travel to work on many new projects related to their flight training devices and support. They recently... 30 April 2020
One way to plan survival in the coronavirus world is to rapidly adapt to the new paradigm. 30 April 2020
In these unprecedented times where most airline flight crew are not flying, VRpilot, a Danish aerospace startup, has begun user testing of their interactive virtual reality cockpit procedure trainer, VRflow. 30 April 2020
