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U.K. Army Trains Anew for Traditional Warfare
The British Army is beginning to restore traditional skills to its units as the U.K. winds down its 11-year involvement in Afghanistan.
- Jun. 18, 2013
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Why Can't Military Labs Help Stop Sexual Assaults?
Whenever there is a scandal, be it in the U.S. military or a big corporation, the response is always the same: 'Let's institute more training.' It's the standard damage-control solution, a box to be checked off to pacify the public and the press.
- Jun. 17, 2013
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NATO Needs Members to Develop Distributed Capability
For a widespread organization such as NATO, distributed simulation and training will grow more important in the days ahead.
- Jun. 14, 2013
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LCS Freedom underway from Singapore, begins exercises
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.
- Jun. 12, 2013
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Dutch Police To Test Crowd Control Trainer
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's Taksim Square.
- Jun. 12, 2013
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Creative Crowdsourcing Meets Military Training
You're writing a crime novel. It's a bank heist, see, and your protagonist Two-Gun Schmuckatelli is gonna grab a cool 50 grand in cash.
- Jun. 7, 2013
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Spanish LVC Middleware Gets U.S. Help
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.
- Jun. 6, 2013
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Singapore To Continue Training in India
Singapore will use military facilities in India for exercise and training of its troops for another five years.
- Jun. 4, 2013
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Selex ES Pitches Training Centers
Selex ES, Finmeccanica's new electronic and information technologies company, hopes to use ITEC to persuade military clients to let it train their troops.
- May. 31, 2013
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Design your own testing range
The U.S. military, which owns numerous sites where troops can train in urban combat, has far fewer citylike places to develop new weapons.
- May. 30, 2013
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Game Theory That Defeats Terrorists
Listen up, kids: Here'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.
- May. 28, 2013
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NATO Hunts Operational and Strategic 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.
- May. 24, 2013
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Sims Promise 'Revolution' in Medical Training
- 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.
- May. 24, 2013
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Trainers: Today's Exercises Are Too Simple
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.
- May. 23, 2013
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Panel: Test, Measure Training Tech
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.
- May. 23, 2013
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Designing For Future Interoperability
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.
- May. 23, 2013
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When Buying Weapons, Don't Neglect Training Systems, Study Warns
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.
- May. 23, 2013
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Barco and Projectiondesign Collaborate
Barco and projectiondesign displayed one of their first collaborative projects at ITEC this week.
- May. 22, 2013
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Finmeccanica Nears Linking-Up 8 Sim Facilities
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.
- May. 22, 2013
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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New Trainer Lets Students Stare Down at 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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