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Training & Simulation Journal TSJ News

  1. Scheherazade crowdsources likely plot points to create scenarios and could be adapted for military training. Mark Riedl

    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

  2. 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

  3. 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
  4. Selex ES, which produces command-and-control systems and other technologies, is also offering to train military technicians and pilots. Selex ES

    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

  5. 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
  6. ARMOR software is used to place checkpoints and dispatch patrols at Los Angeles International Airport. Getty Images

    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

  7. 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
  8. Lauren Biron / Staff

    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
  9. Lauren Biron

    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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Barco and Projectiondesign Collaborate

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

    • May. 22, 2013

  14. 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

  15. 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
  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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
  20. 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

    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
  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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
  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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

  41. 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
  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. 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
  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. 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
  48. 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

  49. 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

  50. 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
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