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LM STS BECOMES LM GTL
Headquartered in Orlando, LM Simulation, Training and Support has become LM Globat Training and Support (GTL), emphasising that organisation's increasing capabilities in logistic support. “We periodically review our portfolio of capabilities and services against the demands of the environment to find ways to continuously provide the b...
BRITISH ARMY IN iPOD TRIAL
The British Army Aviation Centre at Middle Wallop, is to trial a new iPod-based recognition tool, InsightMobile. Army helicopter pilots will use the handheld recognition trainer to help with rapid, accurate identification of vehicles and weapons. Tim Dewing, Chief Executive Officer of DTM Global Ltd, the company behind the iPod-based recognit...
THALES SELECTED FOR MORE TYPE 45 TRAINING
Thales UK has been awarded the second phase of a contract for the provision of interactive 3D media to be used for training maintainers of the long-range Sampson radar on the Royal Navy's new Daring-class (Type 45) destroyers. This second phase, under contract with BAE Insyte, is to provide Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) confo...
First USMC SAVT-1 Completed
Scalable Display Technologies, a provider of software for multi-projector display systems, along with its partner partners TJ Inc and VDC Display Systems, has announced that they have completed the installation of Scalable’s EasyBlend software in the first of six VDC visual display training systems being developed for the US Marine Corps&rsq...
SUAS TRAINING FROM AEGIS
AEgis Technologies Group has delivered a Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) embedded training solution to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) that will be used for pre-deployment training. Through collaboration with AeroVironment Inc, AEgis has developed and delivered a mission planning and operator training so...
ROCKWELL COLLINS IN UH-60M DEAL
In confirming a growing trend towards deployable training systems, the Kingdom of Bahrain has selected Rockwell Collins to provide it with a Transportable Blackhawk Operations Simulator (T-BOS) to train its UH-60M Blackhawk helicopter pilots. The T-BOS will be delivered to the government of Bahrain under a Foreign Military Sale (FMS) contract admin...
SAIC IN US ARMY ROTARY-WING TRAINING DEAL
In February, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced that it had been awarded a delivery order by the US Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) to develop the first integrated crew member simulators for CH-47 and UH-60 helicopters under the Non-rated Crew Member Manned Mo...
FORKLIFTS NEED SIMULATING TOO!
GlobalSim, the US-based supplier of simulation training systems for the crane and material handling market, has announced the installation of 11 additional MasterLift 3000 advanced training simulators for the new ATLAS II 10,000 lbs (4545 kg) rough terrain forklift used by the US Army. In January, the company delivered and installed four of th...
RAAF GETS C-17 ATS
Boeing and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) have commissioned a C-17 Globemaster III Aircrew Training System (ATS) at RAAF Base Amberley. The C-17 ATS, provided through a US Air Force Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract, was delivered for assembly and testing to Amberley in late April 2009, making Australia the first C-17 ATS customer outsi...
SECOND SWISS CTC COMPLETED
RUAG Electronics has completed its work on the Swiss Army’s second Combat Training Centre (CTC) at St Luzisteig which has now been accepted by the Swiss authorities. St Luzisteig now joins the centre Bure near Wahlenstadt, to provide the Swiss armed forces with two national CTCs, both of which are equipped with the RUAG SIMUG live training ar...
LARGEST EST EXPORT ORDER EVER FOR CUBIC
Cubic Defense has been awarded a contract worth more than $30 million to supply its EST 2000 small arms training systems to Saudi Arabia. Cubic will provide its EST 2000 Engagement Skills Trainer to the Saudi Arabian National Guard under a Foreign Military Sales Contract (FMS)contract from the US Army's Orlando-based Program Executive Offic...
UK MFTS - ARE THINGS GETTING STICKY?
As the chill winds of recession blow through the corridors of the UK Government, a Strategic Defence Review is in the offing for next year along with an election. Unofficially, the UK MoD has been preparing itself for a severe kicking by the Treasury with a number of unspecified programmes facing the axe. What then, will be the impact on the UK...
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