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Training & Simulation Journal TSJ News

  1. DECKsim can be configured to represent a variety of helicopters and ships. The Norwegian version will feature the Scandinavian nation's Eurocopter NH90 shipborne helicopters. SEA

    Virtual Flight Trainer Gets Gesture Control

    LONDON — The third generation of the Flight Deck Officer Training System (DECKsim) features gesture recognition that can train officers to guide helicopters using natural movements.

    • Jan. 10, 2013

  2. From the Editor: Between Compliance and Creativity

    “Everybody play nice” is no longer just a phrase for schoolchildren. Interoperability is the buzzword hanging over heads throughout the training and simulation industry. If your sim hasn’t proven that it can talk politely to others and run without breaking things, it won’t be welcome in the military.

    • Jan. 9, 2013

  3. Commentary: Making the Cloud Work

    U.S. military forces are among the best-trained, best-equipped in the world. But like many government programs, training budgets could be subject to spending freezes and even cutbacks as Congress and the administration work to contain record deficits.

    • Jan. 7, 2013

  4. Four New Year’s Resolutions the Pentagon Should Make

    The start of a new year is when many of us resolve to do better in the coming 12 months (or fiscal year, whichever works for you). With that in mind, TSJ has a few suggestions for resolutions that the Pentagon should make:

    • Jan. 3, 2013

  5. Technical Briefing: Data Farming

    Data farming is not all that new, but it is still not well-understood, even in the operations research and modeling and simulation communities. But as researchers come to understand it, they come to love it.

    • Jan. 3, 2013
  6. Marines from 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, train in 2010 with Pointman, a virtual locomotion control that uses a conventional dual joystick gamepad combined with a tracked head-mounted display and sliding foot pedals to allow users to execute realistic tactical infantry movements. John F. Williams / Navy

    Pointman Adds Head, Leg Motion to PC Sim

    For all their sophistication, vehicle and flight simulators are relatively self-contained systems — trainees are basically sitting in a box. That won’t fly for training dismounted infantrymen.

    • Jan. 2, 2013
  7. New LED-based projectors for the C-130 Aircrew Training System will improve the sim's out-the-window views. Lockheed Martin

    Pushing the Limits of Projectors

    It takes a lot to make a simulator run. The databases of information, the instrumentation panels, even the seats are all engineered to match reality as closely as possible. But in the end, the projected image is what the trainees stare at.

    • Dec. 28, 2012
  8. Gen. Edward Rice, commander of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command, says that fifth generation fighters could incorporate train-at-your-own-pace learning. Air Force

    Interview: Gen. Edward Rice

    As the Air Force adapts to the end of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and flat defense budgets, the commander of the Air Education and Training Command is looking to revolutionize the way the service approaches training.

    • Dec. 27, 2012

  9. Canada Taps UK’s Argon for Chemical Warfare Training Simulators

    LONDON — UK chemical warfare training simulator specialist Argon Electronics will supply Canadian forces with a range of training systems after a $6.6 million contract was placed via Argon’s Canadian representatives, Patlon Aircraft & Industries.

    • Dec. 26, 2012
  10. CAE's Common Database, a plug-and-play database that can move across simulators, was originally developed for U.S. special operations forces. CAE

    Open Sharing Key to Interoperability

    Simulation can be sexy: the excitement of explosions as a Humvee navigates a market, smooth barrel rolls in a jet flying over sprawling Italian countryside, immersive worlds for deskbound target practice. But most people’s eyes stop at the visuals and forget what lies beneath. All of the beautiful rendering in the world doesn’t do a lick of good without the data to power it.

    • Dec. 26, 2012

  11. A Bumpy Road to Mobile Learning

    No revolution is painless, not least the mobile one. Smartphone and tablet sales are outpacing those of desktop and laptop computers, the U.S. military is embracing apps and the face of humanity appears glued to tiny screens.

    • Dec. 20, 2012
  12. A model of pressures in the brain due to blast wave propagation indicates which functional areas are subjected to the highest pressures. TASC

    Laser Research Illuminates IED Effects

    Research into laser protection for pilots has led to better computer modeling of how to protect soldiers from IED blast effects.

    • Dec. 20, 2012
  13. Serco's tug simulator replicates a typical vessel's bridge, complete with authentic controls that reproduce the close-in maneuvering behavior of a tug. Serco

    Tug Masters Train at U.K. Ports

    U.K. defense services contractor Serco is using a new simulator to train tug masters and pilots in the U.K.’s main naval ports. These azimuth stern drive tugs use 360-degree rotatable thrusters to navigate ships safely in and out of port.

    • Dec. 18, 2012
  14. Microsoft's Kinect gaming device, which detects a user's body motions, can be adapted for physical therapy for combat veterans. Interknowlogy

    Microsoft Wants to Kinect with Pentagon

    Microsoft hopes its popular Kinect gaming accessory will score with veterans who need physical therapy.

    • Dec. 17, 2012

  15. Non-Military Games Prevail At I/ITSEC

    At a military-dominated training technology conference like I/ITSEC, one would expect the winners of a serious games contest to be, well, military.

    • Dec. 14, 2012

  16. Quality, Not Quantity, at I/ITSEC 2012

    A combination of tight budgets and increased scrutiny on conference spending knocked attendance at the world’s largest training and simulation conference down about 15 percent from last year.

    • Dec. 12, 2012

  17. CAE Demonstrates New UAS Trainer

    CAE is offering a new unmanned aerial systems mission trainer.

    • Dec. 11, 2012

  18. Search for More Training Space Drives Innovation

    ORLANDO — An inescapable theme at this year’s largest training and simulation conference was the need for more space for training. With shrinking — or at the very least, shifting — operational fields and a resurgence of home-station training, trainers are looking for a way to create a larger, equally immersive virtual world that is bigger than the one in their backyards.

    • Dec. 7, 2012

  19. Ranger Training Board Game Goes Digital

    ORLANDO — In the midst of a flashy I/ITSEC floor full of simulators running high-definition visuals, one product hearkened back to a simpler era of wargaming.

    • Dec. 7, 2012

  20. Serious Games Contest Announces 2012 Winners

    ORLANDO — The winners in the six categories of the Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (SGS&C) were announced Dec. 5 at the 2012 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) here. Picked from a field of 18 announced in late October, and including the Business and Student standouts unveiled at Australia’s inaugural SGS&C at SimTecT in June, the winners are:

    • Dec. 6, 2012

  21. Companies Offer New Visual Systems for Training

    ORLANDO — Several companies at this year’s I/ITSEC conference are hoping that the government will embrace enhanced visual systems for training. Various types of augmented and virtual reality are on display, with developers hoping for further military interest despite tight budgets.

    • Dec. 4, 2012

  22. Boeing Gets $56M for Sim Maintenance Work

    Boeing has won a $56 million contract to maintain training simulators for six types of Navy aircraft, the first in what the company sees as a segue into further contracts to maintain simulators for Navy maritime patrol aircraft.

    • Dec. 4, 2012

  23. U.K. Aircrew Training Holds Steady

    LONDON — The quality of aircrew training among NATO’s European members is holding up despite the strains on defense budgets from the continent’s ongoing financial crisis, a senior British analyst said.

    • Nov. 29, 2012

  24. Army Cracks Down on Unauthorized Training Games

    An Army Training & Doctrine Command directive warns Army training centers against using unauthorized games, simulators and other training aids.

    • Nov. 26, 2012
  25. In a major shake-up of the U.S.-led combat mission in Afghanistan, up to eight newly designed units - dubbed security force assistance brigades (SFABs) - will replace an equal number of U.S. Army brigade combat teams (BCTs) across the east and south of the country by next spring, bringing a new focus to the training and advising mission while pushing Afghans to take the lead in security operations. U.S. Army

    New Army Units Prep for Long-Term Afghan Training

    In a major shake-up of the American-led combat mission in Afghanistan, up to eight newly designed units — dubbed security force assistance brigades (SFABs) — will replace an equal number of Army brigade combat teams (BCTs) across the east and south of the country by next spring, bringing a new focus to the training and advising mission while pushing Afghans to take the lead in security operations.

    • Nov. 26, 2012
  26. The Infantry Immersion Trainer at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows will get updated props, such as signs, that recreate an Asian-Pacific town rather than a Middle Eastern one. Cpl. Jody Lee Smith / Marine Corps

    Immersion Trainer Makeover Reflects Marines’ Asia-Pacific Focus

    Marines who go through Hawaii’s Infantry Immersion Trainer will see significant changes to match the Corps’ new focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

    • Nov. 26, 2012

  27. Tough Fiscal Climate Slims Some Air Training

    With the Air Force forced to find savings amid a tough fiscal climate, some units have been forced to focus on cheaper, local training to keep up to speed instead of taking part in massive exercises internationally. Several units on the East Coast have started doing this monthly with Exercise Razor Talon.

    • Nov. 26, 2012

  28. MASS Eyes U.K. EW Training

    LONDON – Shrinking U.K. defense budgets may cause the armed services to outsource their electronic warfare (EW) training to private industry, according to one training company.

    • Nov. 20, 2012

  29. Game Review: Tactical Zombie Killing

    Now that the U.S military and its contractors are preparing to fight a zombie war, it seems a good time to examine a zombie wargame.

    • Nov. 16, 2012

  30. Army Integrates Sims for Network Exercises

    As head of the U.S. Army’s Brigade Modernization Command, Brig. Gen. Randal Dragon is one of the service’s point men when it comes to biannual network integration evaluation (NIE) exercises. So when he says, “we’re really at a start point” with where the service wants to go with the event, it’s a significant statement.

    • Nov. 9, 2012
  31. The arrival of Yak-130 advanced jet trainers is ushering in a new chapter of fast jet training for the Russian air force.

    Russia Gets New Fast Jet Trainers

    The arrival of Yak-130 advanced jet trainers is ushering in a new chapter of fast jet training for the Russian air force.

    • Nov. 9, 2012

  32. Ireland Seeks Helo Training for Air Corps

    The Irish Air Corps is seeking helicopter simulator time to provide initial and recurrent training for its Eurocopter EC135 twin-engine light helicopters.

    • Nov. 9, 2012
  33. The U.S. Army wants to update its optical tracking systems, some of which are 30 years old and still rely on film. Department of Defense

    New Cameras for Army Ranges

    Weapons have changed drastically over the last 30 years, but the cameras on Army test ranges have not. So the Army is preparing to upgrade the kineto-tracking mounts — the squat turrets that look like R2-D2 from Star Wars, if cameras were mounted on his head.

    • Nov. 7, 2012

  34. Odierno: New Training Focus for Army

    As the Army and Marine Corps begin to plan for the long, uncertain transition away from wartime force rotations and rapid-equipping strategies, they’re casting a wary eye at the platform-hungry Air Force and Navy, which argue that their long-rage capabilities are what’s needed for the new emphasis on the Pacific.

    • Nov. 1, 2012

  35. Rheinmetall to Open Sim Group in Australia

    German conglomerate Rheinmetall Defence plans to increase its presence in the Asia-Pacific region with the creation of a new business unit, Rheinmetall Simulation Australia.

    • Oct. 31, 2012

  36. Thales, Transas To Develop Full Warship Simulator

    Bonn — Thales Germany and Transas Marine International have agreed to develop and market a system that can create a virtual simulation of an entire warship for training purposes, according to both companies.

    • Oct. 29, 2012
  37. Lance Cpl. Elias Martinez surfaces after making his way through the pit and pond underwater obstacle at the Jungle Warfare Training Center on Okinawa. Maj. Gen. Tom Murray, commanding general of Training and Education Command, said the Corps is looking at additional locations to train Marines in the jungle. Lance Cpl. Nicholas Ranum / Marine Corps

    Marines to Expand Tropical Training

    The Marine Corps wants to enhance its jungle warfare training program and make it more accessible to units based in the continental U.S.

    • Oct. 29, 2012

  38. Technology Lets U.S. Army Sync 3 Types of Training

    The U.S. Army will soon begin fielding new technology that allows units to conduct live, virtual and constructive training at the same time.

    • Oct. 23, 2012

  39. 1st Indian-Malaysian Exercise Ends This Week

    NEW DELHI —Conventional war in an urban setting, including counterterrorism and counterinsurgency activities, is the focus of Harimau Shakti, the first-ever joint exercise between the Indian and Malaysian militaries, an Indian Army official said.

    • Oct. 22, 2012

  40. Myanmar Could Join U.S.-led Cobra Gold Exercises

    BANGKOK — The United States plans to invite Myanmar to a major regional military exercise next year, host country Thailand said Oct. 19, reflecting a dramatic easing of tensions between the former foes.

    • Oct. 19, 2012

  41. Can We Simulate Non-American Wars?

    The cardinal mistake in military history has always been mirror-imaging: the assumption, often colored by wishful thinking, that your enemy will conveniently devise the same goals, strategy and tactics as you do. But this doesn’t just apply to enemies. Even allies frequently misperceive each other.

    • Oct. 19, 2012
  42. Israel and the U.S. will hold a major joint missile defense drill, a senior Israeli Air Force officer said Oct. 17. Above, Israel's Iron Dome missile system launches a rocket. Jack Guez / Agence France-Presse

    U.S., Israel Prepare for Major Joint Military Drill

    JERUSALEM — U.S. troops and equipment have begun arriving in Israel ahead of what a senior air force officer on Oct. 17 called “the largest exercise in the history of the longstanding military relationship between the U.S. and Israel.”

    • Oct. 17, 2012

  43. CAE Wins $205M in Sim Contracts

    In September, CAE won a batch of military contracts in the Middle East, Asia and U.S. with a total value of about $200 million Canadian ($205 million).

    • Oct. 16, 2012

  44. India, Indonesia Discuss Joint Training, Co-production

    NEW DELHI — Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony and his Indonesia counterpart, Purnomo Yusgiantoro, met Oct. 16 to discuss joint training, and possible co-production and sales of military equipment.

    • Oct. 16, 2012

  45. Japanese, U.S. Troops Mull Drill To Take Island: Reports

    TOKYO — Japan and the United States are mulling a joint military drill to simulate retaking a remote island from foreign forces, reports said, amid a festering row between Tokyo and Beijing over disputed islets.

    • Oct. 14, 2012
  46. A Czech subsonic combat aircraft L-159 ALCA lands last month at the Namest air force base near Brno. Iraq will buy 28 Czech-made L-159 training jets valued at $1 billion, a Czech defence ministry spokesman said Oct. 12 in Prague. Radek Mica / AFP

    Iraq to Buy 28 Training Jets for $1 Billion: Czech Minister

    PRAGUE — Iraq will buy 28 Czech-made L-159 training jets valued at $1 billion (770 billion euros), Czech Defense Minister Alexandr Vondra said in Prague on Oct. 12.

    • Oct. 12, 2012
  47. A Stryker combat vehicle maneuvers along a tank trail during Saber Junction 2012 on Oct. 13. The U.S. Army in Europe's exercise Saber Junction trains U.S. personnel and more than 1,800 multinational partners from 18 European nations, ensuring interoperability between forces and an agile, ready coalition force. Gertrud Zach / Army

    U.S. Army Europe Returns to Force-on-Force Training

    To train for the future, U.S. Army Europe is looking to the past.

    • Oct. 11, 2012
  48. The Homestation Instrumentation Training System sends geo-referenced data to a central control point, tracking when and where soldiers shoot or get shoot. U.S. Army

    Army Puts LVC Tool Through Paces

    Several U.S. Army posts will get a new tool that combines live, virtual and constructive (LVC) training if leaders at the National Simulation Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., are satisfied with the first field test.

    • Oct. 10, 2012

  49. Lockheed To Shift Training Division

    The world’s largest defense contractor will divide its largest operational unit, Electronic Systems, into Missiles and Fire Control (MFC) and Mission Systems and Training (MST) business areas effective Dec. 31, the company announced Oct. 8.

    • Oct. 8, 2012
  50. Maj. Gen. Tom Murray, commanding general of Training and Education Command, said the commandant's priorities - like ethics and jungle warfare training - will shape Marines' education. Cpl. Susan Smith / Marine Corps

    USMC General Details Training Changes

    MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — Marines are about to see a lot of changes in their training as the Corps shifts from steady combat in Afghanistan to new missions focused on U.S. interests in the Asia-Pacific region.

    • Oct. 4, 2012
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