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  1. Barco and Projectiondesign Collaborate

    Barco and projectiondesign displayed one of their first collaborative projects at ITEC this week.

    • May. 22, 2013

  2. Study: Driving Sims are Surprisingly Effective

    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.

    • May. 22, 2013
  3. Combat-medic training cards are augmented with multimedia content when viewed with a tablet or smartphone. University of Central Florida

    Playing With Augmented Reality

    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.

    • May. 22, 2013

  4. Brazilian Army Catching Up on Constructive Sims

    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.

    • May. 22, 2013

  5. ITEC Speakers: Don't Neglect Morality

    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.

    • May. 22, 2013

  6. Tight Budgets Drive Training Innovation

    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.

    • May. 22, 2013
  7. CAMO, the Culture Awareness for Military Operations trainer, provides interactive lessons in cultural awareness. Aptima

    Cultural Training: More Than Learning a Culture

    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?

    • May. 20, 2013
  8. The Full Mission Bridge Simulator 2 at the Surface Warfare Officers School lets students look down alongside the ship when docking or interacting with nearby vessels. U.S. Navy

    A new trainer lets students stare down at a virtual sea

    Inside a three-story simulator in Newport, R.I., students are learning how to navigate the seas and the world of immersive ship training.

    • May. 20, 2013

  9. Navy Seeks To Map the Mind

    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.

    • May. 17, 2013

  10. Military Sales Fall for CAE

    The US sequester is producing what many simulation companies have dreaded: falling military orders and unfortunate numbers.

    • May. 17, 2013

  11. Making Better Waves for Maritime Sims

    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.

    • May. 15, 2013

  12. Better than 20/20: High-Fidelity Vision Research

    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.

    • May. 14, 2013

  13. Using Stress to Treat Suicides and PTSD

    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

    • May. 13, 2013

  14. GAO: EOD Training Has Eroded

    Constant deployment of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel on counter-IED missions is eroding training, according to a new GAO report.

    • May. 8, 2013

  15. FlightSafety Wins KC-46 Training Contract

    FlightSafety has won the contract to provide the training system for the US Air Force's new tanker, the service announced today.

    • May. 1, 2013

  16. US, South Korea Wrap Up Drills As Tensions Simmer

    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.

    • Apr. 30, 2013

  17. Scaled Down US-Morocco War Games Resume

    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.

    • Apr. 24, 2013

  18. Turkey's Indigenous Trainer Nears Maiden Flight

    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).

    • Apr. 23, 2013

  19. Army's learning cloud means accessible class materials

    Army learning institutions are making course materials that were once hidden behind online firewalls more accessible, on students' mobile devices and in their homes.

    • Apr. 22, 2013

  20. Bohemia Interactive Acquires TerraSim

    Bohemia Interactive Simulations, developer of the ubiquitous tactical shooter Virtual Battlespace 2, has acquired TerraSim, maker of terrain software TerraTools.

    • Apr. 19, 2013

  21. Government Absent from GameTech

    Curious what effect sequestration is having on training? Thus far, it has produced a government-industry conference without the government.

    • Apr. 18, 2013
  22. Rockets are launched April 17 from the Thunderbolt 2000, a Taiwan-made multi-rocket launcher system, during a military drill in the western Penghu islands. Taiwan's defense ministry staged its biggest live-fire military exercise since 2008, aimed at reviewing the island's defense capability against a simulated Chinese invasion. Sam Yeh/AFP

    Taiwan Shows Force in Live-fire Drill

    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.

    • Apr. 17, 2013

  23. Wanted: Clever Medical Training

    If you can design a medical simulation or other medical device that uses a microcontroller, a pot of money awaits you.

    • Apr. 11, 2013

  24. New CAE Work: Helos to Hercs

    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.

    • Apr. 9, 2013
  25. Marathon Targets' newest T-40 4-Wheel Drive smart target can accelerate and move faster than older versions and seems more human, thanks to changes in its design and external speakers that allow it to "talk" or emit simulated gunshots. Marathon Targets

    Faster, More ‘Human’ Smart Targets

    Service members may soon find themselves battling smart robots, which will please training aficionados and science-fiction doomsday fans alike.

    • Apr. 8, 2013
  26. Angel Thunder, the largest personnel recovery exercise in the military, will rely heavily on simulated entities in addition to live aircraft. Air Force

    Biggest CSAR Exercise Adds Sims

    For the first time, the largest combat search and rescue exercise in the world will incorporate hefty amounts of simulation.

    • Apr. 8, 2013
  27. Students at the 532nd Training Squadron work with one of four new Air Launch Cruise Missile Simulators that replaced worn-out equipment. Air Force

    New Missile Sims at Vandenberg

    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.

    • Apr. 3, 2013

  28. Army Picks Virtual Challenge Finalists

    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.

    • Apr. 1, 2013
  29. Gladius, currently being tested by troops preparing for deployment to Afghanistan in June, is designed to bring German infantry into the network-centric age. Ralph Zwilling

    Germany Trains on ‘Future’ Gear

    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.

    • Mar. 28, 2013

  30. U.S. Army Learns Lessons in N. Korea-like War Game

    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.

    • Mar. 26, 2013

  31. Army Wants Sims to Handle More Users

    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.

    • Mar. 22, 2013
  32. Two U.S. privates practice operating the Patriot missile launcher in 2012. Until the recent arrival of a Patriot simulator, Israeli operators typically traveled to the U.S. for training. U.S. Army

    Israel Gets a Patriot Simulator

    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.

    • Mar. 21, 2013

  33. Building a Virtual Continent

    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.

    • Mar. 19, 2013

  34. Europe Continues To Loom Large in U.S. Army’s Plans

    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.

    • Mar. 18, 2013
  35. A CAD image of the A400M Part Task Trainer shows it reproducing the “kneeling” maneuver the aircraft can undertake to ease loading and unloading. Dytecna

    U.K. Plans Turboprop Training

    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.

    • Mar. 14, 2013

  36. Training School Takes On UAS Development

    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.

    • Mar. 13, 2013

  37. Army Making Physiology Engine for the Masses

    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.

    • Mar. 12, 2013

  38. Training For Some Air Force Pilots To Stop Mid-April

    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.

    • Mar. 12, 2013

  39. S. Korea-U.S. Drill Starts as North Rejects Armistice

    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.

    • Mar. 11, 2013
  40. Northrop Grumman's Sandshark UAV, known until recently as Sandstorm, comes equipped with software and weights that allow it to replace the takeoff and landing feel of different UAVs. Northrop Grumman

    Sandshark Replicates Multiple UAVs

    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.

    • Mar. 10, 2013

  41. Pakistan, Guest Navies Conclude Aman-13 Exercise

    KARACHI — Pakistan on Friday concluded a four-day multinational exercise and seminar aimed at promoting peace and stability in the region.

    • Mar. 9, 2013

  42. U.S.-Israel-Greek Navies Drill in Med

    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.

    • Mar. 8, 2013

  43. U.S., China Take Part in Pakistan Naval Drills

    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.

    • Mar. 7, 2013
  44. Thales' A400M full-flight simulator allows an instructor to closely monitor performance and adjust scenarios to meet the training needs of flight crew. Thales

    Joint Venture To Train RAF Crews on Atlas A400M

    LONDON — Royal Air Force crews set to fly the new Atlas A400M airlifter are to be trained by a joint venture company set up by Airbus Military and Thales UK.

    • Mar. 4, 2013

  45. U.S., South Korea Launch Major Joint Exercises

    SEOUL — Thousands of U.S. troops converged on South Korea on Friday for the start of annual joint military exercises, a report said, as tensions run high on the peninsula following North Korea’s third nuclear test.

    • Mar. 1, 2013

  46. 4 Nations Sign Multinational Aviation Training Centre Letter

    Representatives of Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the United States have signed a “Letter of Intent” to the Multinational Aviation Training Centre, according to a Czech Republic Ministry of Defense statement.

    • Feb. 28, 2013
  47. The KC-46 trainer contract is now expected to be awarded in the third quarter of this fiscal year. Boeing illustration

    KC-46 Program ‘Stable’ But Trainer Schedule Slips Again

    WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force’s decision to award a training contract for its new tanker has slipped again, even as the government’s watchdog arm has declared the program to be on budget and schedule.

    • Feb. 28, 2013

  48. CAE Wins Contracts from Australia, New Zealand

    CAE announced two new contracts for simulation and training in Australia and New Zealand at the Avalon Australian International Air Show this week.

    • Feb. 27, 2013
  49. A 33rd Fighter Wing maintainer watches as the first F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter taxi to its new home at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., in July. The Defense Department grounded all F-35s on Feb. 22. Samuel King Jr. / Air Force

    F-35 Grounding Sends Pilots To Simulators

    The Air Force’s first class of six F-35 pilots might have to delay their first flights if the Defense Department doesn’t clear the Joint Strike Fighter to resume flying by next week.

    • Feb. 25, 2013

  50. A Virtual One-on-One for Land Nav

    WASHINGTON — Before cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., hit the land navigation course for real, they’ll do it virtually, and with a seasoned teacher by their side.

    • Feb. 24, 2013
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