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  <title><![CDATA[Why Can&apos;t Military Labs Help Stop Sexual Assaults?]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Whenever there is a scandal, be it in the U.S. military or a big corporation, the response is always the same: &apos;Let&apos;s institute more training.&apos; It&apos;s the standard damage-control solution, a box to be checked off to pacify the public and the press.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[NATO Needs Members to Develop Distributed Capability]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[For a widespread organization such as NATO, distributed simulation and training will grow more important in the days ahead.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[LCS Freedom underway from Singapore, begins exercises]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Seven weeks after arriving at Singapore, the littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) left Changi Naval Base on June 11 to begin a series of regional exercises with navies of friendly nations.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dutch Police To Test Crowd Control Trainer]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Crowd control, a practical skill regularly taught to members of the military and police, is periodically brought to the forefront during clashes such as the Kent State shootings or the recent protests in Turkey&apos;s Taksim Square.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Creative Crowdsourcing Meets Military Training]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[You&apos;re writing a crime novel. It&apos;s a bank heist, see, and your protagonist Two-Gun Schmuckatelli is gonna grab a cool 50 grand in cash.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Spanish LVC Middleware Gets U.S. Help]]></title>
  <link>http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130606/TSJ01/306060017</link>
  <description><![CDATA[A U.S. simulation center will evaluate a Spanish framework for live, virtual and constructive simulations with an eye toward fitting the technology into U.S. products.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Singapore To Continue Training in India]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Singapore will use military facilities in India for exercise and training of its troops for another five years.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Selex ES Pitches Training Centers]]></title>
  <link>http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130531/TSJ/305310023</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Selex ES, Finmeccanica&apos;s new electronic and information technologies company, hopes to use ITEC to persuade military clients to let it train their troops.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Design your own testing range]]></title>
  <link>http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130530/TSJ01/305300015</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The U.S. military, which owns numerous sites where troops can train in urban combat, has far fewer citylike places to develop new weapons.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Game Theory That Defeats Terrorists]]></title>
  <link>http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130528/TSJ01/305280010</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Listen up, kids: Here&apos;s a math problem to solve. You have 100 airline flights that terrorists might attack. You have 10 air marshals to guard them, which means 17 trillion combinations.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[NATO Hunts Operational and Strategic Sims]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[NATO leaders searching for operational and strategic simulations are using 2013 ITEC simulation and training show to flesh out their requirements and pinpoint gaps in training and technology.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sims Promise &apos;Revolution&apos; in Medical Training]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[- Future medical training needs for military and civilian doctors are similar; the list includes virtual patients and cadavers, haptic technology, advanced simulators for high-fidelity operations, and patient-specific sims.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Trainers: Today&apos;s Exercises Are Too Simple]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Commanders and operators need to take in an ever-growing amount of data, analyze it, and make decisions &#45; but current training exercises may not accurately train these skills.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Panel: Test, Measure Training Tech]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[When it comes to delivering training, future technology needs to be thoroughly tested, more focused on the learner and more carefully tracked in terms of results, experts said.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Designing For Future Interoperability]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Exactly what technology will be used for training in the coming years remains uncertain, but members of the military and industry alike are pushing for future tools to fit into a standardized system in an interoperable future.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[When Buying Weapons, Don&apos;t Neglect Training Systems, Study Warns]]></title>
  <link>http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130523/TSJ01/305200032</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Setting up a new training system to match its weapon is just like any relationship. It requires good communication and hard work, and things get stressful when money is tight.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Barco and Projectiondesign Collaborate]]></title>
  <link>http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130522/TSJ01/305220027</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Barco and projectiondesign displayed one of their first collaborative projects at ITEC this week.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Finmeccanica Nears Linking-Up 8 Sim Facilities]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Italy&apos;s Finmeccanica is close to completing the link-up of eight of its simulator facilities to allow the integration of simulation training involving vehicles, helicopters, UAVs and other platforms.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Study: Driving Sims are Surprisingly Effective]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Military driving simulators are as effective as live training for basic tracked-vehicle maneuver skills, according to a study publicly presented for the first time today at ITEC.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Playing With Augmented Reality]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Playing cards don&apos;t typically save lives. But researchers at the University of Central Florida are using augmented reality combined with a special deck of cards to reinforce procedures and concepts for combat medics.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Brazilian Army Catching Up on Constructive Sims]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Brazilian Army has taken its next step in training with constructive simulations, selecting French company MASA&apos;s artificial intelligence sim software for battalion-, brigade- and division-level training.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[ITEC Speakers: Don&apos;t Neglect Morality]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The ITEC conference is a confluence of technology and military, where one expects to see big screens, high-res graphics and fake weapons. It hardly seems like the place for a discussion on morality.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tight Budgets Drive Training Innovation]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Financial austerity has become a key driver for distributed training, multinational cooperation and integrated virtual systems, military and industry leaders said at ITEC today, the opening day of the training conference and exhibition.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[New Trainer Lets Students Stare Down at Virtual Sea]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Inside a three-story simulator in Newport, R.I., students are learning how to navigate the seas and the world of immersive ship training.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Cultural Training: More Than Learning a Culture]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[As the U.S. military shifts its focus away from the Middle East and over to Asia, the Pacific and Africa, it faces a particular quandary: How do you give soldiers cultural awareness when they don&apos;t know which culture they will encounter?]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Navy Seeks To Map the Mind]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[In some visions of the future, you&apos;ll drive your car with little more than your mind. Electrodes on your head, you can climb into your car, think about how much you&apos;d like a Big Mac, and let the car take you automatically to the nearest McDonald&apos;s.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Military Sales Fall for CAE]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The US sequester is producing what many simulation companies have dreaded: falling military orders and unfortunate numbers.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Making Better Waves for Maritime Sims]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Does one ocean wave look very much like the next? Not to experienced mariners, who find the water effects in today&apos;s ship simulators far from realistic.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Better than 20/20: High-Fidelity Vision Research]]></title>
  <link>http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130514/TSJ/305140019</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Cutting-edge sims aren&apos;t just for training. A new Air Force Research Laboratory flight simulator will be used by researchers to measure and evaluate pilot vision.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Using Stress to Treat Suicides and PTSD]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Army is developing a roadmap for incorporating mental resilience into training devices, basing the decision on the theory that stressing a soldier during training &#45; and teaching him or her techniques to manage that stress &#45; is the best way to prevent]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[GAO: EOD Training Has Eroded]]></title>
  <link>http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130508/TSJ/305080010</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Constant deployment of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel on counter-IED missions is eroding training, according to a new GAO report.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[FlightSafety Wins KC-46 Training Contract]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[FlightSafety has won the contract to provide the training system for the US Air Force&apos;s new tanker, the service announced today.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[US, South Korea Wrap Up Drills As Tensions Simmer]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The United States and South Korea on Tuesday wrapped up military drills at the center of soaring tensions with North Korea, as Pyongyang ignored a new overture over a flagship joint industrial zone.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Scaled Down US-Morocco War Games Resume]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[US-Morocco war games, canceled by Rabat over a Washington-backed plan for the UN&apos;s Western Sahara mission, have resumed on a smaller scale after a compromise was reached, the US embassy said Wednesday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Turkey&apos;s Indigenous Trainer Nears Maiden Flight]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[An indigenous basic trainer aircraft that Turkey designed and has been developing is going through a final round of tests before it makes its maiden flight in June, according to officials from its maker, Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI).]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Army&apos;s learning cloud means accessible class materials]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Army learning institutions are making course materials that were once hidden behind online firewalls more accessible, on students&apos; mobile devices and in their homes.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Bohemia Interactive Acquires TerraSim]]></title>
  <link>http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130419/TSJ01/304190012</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Bohemia Interactive Simulations, developer of the ubiquitous tactical shooter Virtual Battlespace 2, has acquired TerraSim, maker of terrain software TerraTools.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Government Absent from GameTech]]></title>
  <link>http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130418/TSJ01/304180017</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Curious what effect sequestration is having on training? Thus far, it has produced a government-industry conference without the government.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Taiwan Shows Force in Live-fire Drill]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Wanted: Clever Medical Training]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[New CAE Work: Helos to Hercs]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Faster, More &amp;#8216;Human&apos; Smart Targets]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Biggest CSAR Exercise Adds Sims]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[New Missile Sims at Vandenberg]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Wear and tear is a common problem for military equipment, but it also plagues the very simulators trainees learn on. Replacing these trainers can be a lengthy process, evidenced by new Air Launch Cruise Missile simulators that took more than five years to get to students at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Germany Trains on &amp;#8216;Future&apos; Gear]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[LONDON &amp;#8212; German infantry have started training on the new &amp;#8220;future soldier system&amp;#8221; that aims to integrate multiple operational and survival functions into an individual soldier&apos;s kit.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[U.S. Army Learns Lessons in N. Korea-like War Game]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &amp;#8212; It took 56 days for the U.S. to flow two divisions&apos; worth of soldiers into the failed nuclear-armed state of &amp;#8220;North Brownland&amp;#8221; and as many as 90,000 troops to deal with the country&apos;s nuclear stockpiles, a major U.S. Army war game concluded this winter.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Israel Gets a Patriot Simulator]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Building a Virtual Continent]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Europe Continues To Loom Large in U.S. Army&apos;s Plans]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[U.K. Plans Turboprop Training]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Army Making Physiology Engine for the Masses]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[An open-source physiology engine that anyone can use to develop medical simulations is being developed by the U.S. Army&apos;s Telemedicine &amp; Advanced Technology Research Center.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Training For Some Air Force Pilots To Stop Mid-April]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[S. Korea-U.S. Drill Starts as North Rejects Armistice]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[SEOUL &amp;#8212; South Korea and the United States launched joint drills Monday involving thousands of troops, defying North Korea&apos;s apocalyptic threats to repudiate the 60-year-old Korean War armistice in retaliation.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sandshark Replicates Multiple UAVs]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Getting a remotely piloted aircraft on and off the ground can be a tricky operation. Northrop Grumman is betting that a cheap training aircraft, about a quarter of the size of a Reaper, will help pilots learn to do it.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Pakistan, Guest Navies Conclude Aman-13 Exercise]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[KARACHI &amp;#8212; Pakistan on Friday concluded a four-day multinational exercise and seminar aimed at promoting peace and stability in the region.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[U.S.-Israel-Greek Navies Drill in Med]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Joint Venture To Train RAF Crews on Atlas A400M]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[4 Nations Sign Multinational Aviation Training Centre Letter]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[KC-46 Program &amp;#8216;Stable&apos; But Trainer Schedule Slips Again]]></title>
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