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TSJ News- 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.
- 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.
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.
Commanders and operators need to take in an ever-growing amount of data, analyze it, and make decisions — but current training exercises may not accurately train these skills.
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.
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.
Italy'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.
Barco and projectiondesign displayed one of their first collaborative projects at ITEC this week.
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.
Playing cards don'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.
The Brazilian Army has taken its next step in training with constructive simulations, selecting French company MASA's artificial intelligence sim software for battalion-, brigade- and division-level training.
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.
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.
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't know which culture they will encounter?
Inside a three-story simulator in Newport, R.I., students are learning how to navigate the seas and the world of immersive ship training.
In some visions of the future, you'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'd like a Big Mac, and let the car take you automatically to the nearest McDonald's.
The US sequester is producing what many simulation companies have dreaded: falling military orders and unfortunate numbers.
Does one ocean wave look very much like the next? Not to experienced mariners, who find the water effects in today's ship simulators far from realistic.
Cutting-edge sims aren't just for training. A new Air Force Research Laboratory flight simulator will be used by researchers to measure and evaluate pilot vision.
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 — and teaching him or her techniques to manage that stress — is the best way to prevent
Constant deployment of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel on counter-IED missions is eroding training, according to a new GAO report.
FlightSafety has won the contract to provide the training system for the US Air Force's new tanker, the service announced today.
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.
US-Morocco war games, canceled by Rabat over a Washington-backed plan for the UN's Western Sahara mission, have resumed on a smaller scale after a compromise was reached, the US embassy said Wednesday.
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).
Army learning institutions are making course materials that were once hidden behind online firewalls more accessible, on students' mobile devices and in their homes.
Bohemia Interactive Simulations, developer of the ubiquitous tactical shooter Virtual Battlespace 2, has acquired TerraSim, maker of terrain software TerraTools.
Curious what effect sequestration is having on training? Thus far, it has produced a government-industry conference without the government.
Taiwan staged its biggest live-fire drill since 2008 Wednesday in an operation involving more than 7000 troops that simulated a Chinese attack as its leader warned of Beijing's arms build-up.
If you can design a medical simulation or other medical device that uses a microcontroller, a pot of money awaits you.
Canada-based simulator specialist CAE recently announced a batch of military contracts totaling approximately 130 million Canadian dollars ($128 million) from the armed services of Australia, Kuwait and the United States.
For the first time, the largest combat search and rescue exercise in the world will incorporate hefty amounts of simulation.
Service members may soon find themselves battling smart robots, which will please training aficionados and science-fiction doomsday fans alike.
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.
The Army Research Laboratory has selected six finalists in a challenge to create an original virtual environment program or feature. The contest is a chance for often lesser-known developers to share creative ideas with the simulation, training, and gaming communities and potentially solve issues that plague the Army’s virtual environments as well.
LONDON — German infantry have started training on the new “future soldier system” that aims to integrate multiple operational and survival functions into an individual soldier’s kit.
WASHINGTON — It took 56 days for the U.S. to flow two divisions’ worth of soldiers into the failed nuclear-armed state of “North Brownland” and as many as 90,000 troops to deal with the country’s nuclear stockpiles, a major U.S. Army war game concluded this winter.
The U.S. Army wants virtual-world and simulation technology capable of supporting at least five times the number of concurrent users than is possible today. To develop technology that can bring mass virtual exercises to life, the Army Research Laboratory’s Simulation and Training Technology Center is working with Intel Corp. in a cooperative research and development agreement.
The Aerial Defense Academy in southern Israel now hosts a new Patriot simulator, meaning service members training to operate the anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapon will be able to practice at home instead of traveling to the United States.
It’s a training dream come true: an island with every kind of terrain you would ever need for practice exercises, tucked neatly away in the North Atlantic. This land mass exists only as a data set, but for simulators in need of realistic terrain or vector data, it’s a place to call home.
WASHINGTON — Even as the U.S. Army’s contingent in Europe continues to shrink — losing 10,000 more soldiers to reach a postwar low of 30,000 by 2015 — service leaders say they actually plan to expand the force’s mission set.
LONDON — The U.K. Ministry of Defence has ordered three part-task trainers in anticipation of the new Airbus Military A400M Atlas transport aircraft to train rear cabin crew.
The world’s oldest training establishment for test pilots is aiming to keep pace with modern airpower trends. The Empire Test Pilots’ School at Boscombe Down in the U.K. is moving into its eighth decade and has established the Unmanned Air Systems Capability Development Centre.
An open-source physiology engine that anyone can use to develop medical simulations is being developed by the U.S. Army’s Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center.
Training flights for fighter and mobility pilots not facing deployment will grind to a halt in mid-April, and it will take years to get readiness back to an acceptable level, a top Air Force official said Tuesday.
SEOUL — South Korea and the United States launched joint drills Monday involving thousands of troops, defying North Korea’s apocalyptic threats to repudiate the 60-year-old Korean War armistice in retaliation.
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.
KARACHI — Pakistan on Friday concluded a four-day multinational exercise and seminar aimed at promoting peace and stability in the region.
Tel Aviv — Navies from the United States, Israel and Greece kicked off a two-week exercise in the Mediterranean Sea on March 7, the third in an annual trilateral event dubbed Noble Dina.
ISLAMABAD — The United States and China began naval drills in the Arabian Sea with Pakistan and other countries on Thursday, the Pakistani navy said, in a show of strength against terrorism and piracy.
