Training
UK adds long-overdue helicopter aircrew training capacity
The UK MoD has signed a £183 million ($240 million) Military Flying Training System (MFTS) contract to add capacity to train rotary-wing pilots, filling a long-overdue shortfall. This ...
Training
I/ITSEC 2019: Treality SVS wins C-130 display contract
Xenia, Ohio-headquartered Treality SVS has won a contract to provide two glass mirror collimated visual CD Series systems for C-130H and C-130J full motion trainers ...
Training
I/ITSEC 2019: Cubic to deliver P5 CTS for Typhoon customer
Cubic Global Defense has announced that it is to deliver its P5 Combat Training System (CTS) to an international Eurofighter Typhoon customer. The contract was ...
Training
I/ITSEC 2019: Spanish Air Force opts for PC-21
Spain is set to acquire 24 Pilatus PC-21 turboprop training aircraft to replace its ageing Casa Aviojet C-101 jet trainers.
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Training
I/ITSEC 2019: TRAX aims to stem pilot shortage
2nd December 2019
CAE has launched its TRAX Academy pilot training system along with its core component, the Sprint VR trainer. The company has said that TRAX Academy ...
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Training
I/ITSEC 2019: Boost for LMCO C-130 training
29th November 2019
Lockheed Martin has received a major boost for its Hercules Training Center (HTC) with the award of a not-to-exceed $87 million firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity single ...
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Training
I/ITSEC 2019: T-1A Jayhawk support contract awarded
27th November 2019
Madison, Mississippi-based Vertex Aerospace LLC, part of the American Industrial Partners group of companies, has been awarded a $77.25 million firm-fixed-price contract for contractor operated ...
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Training
I/ITSEC 2019: DCS&S success for Pitch
27th November 2019
BAE Systems owned Pitch Technologies has been awarded a contract from the UK’s DOTC(A) Core System and Services (DCS&S;) prime contractor, Boeing Defence UK, to ...
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Training
I/ITSEC 2019: Decision made on initial CMV-22 trainers for US Navy
27th November 2019
The Bell Boeing Joint Project Office (JPO), Amarillo, Texas, has been awarded a $14.32 million firm-fixed-price order for the design, fabrication, installation, test and delivery ...
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Training
I/ITSEC 2019: Varjo links with Antycip Simulation
27th November 2019
Head mounted display specialists, Varjo Technologies, has announced the expansion of its value-added reseller network by securing a deal with Antycip Simulation. Antycip provides virtual ...
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Training
UK on path to fulfil fast jet training gap
21st November 2019
One of the issues of buying training systems is that stove-piped procurements can lead to an inability to network devices to fulfil a common, overarching ...
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Training
US NAWCAD selects JF Taylor
12th November 2019
JF Taylor has been awarded a $109.4 million contract for the development of simulation systems and software to support training activities as well as acquisition development ...
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Defence Notes
UAE looks for the Edge in Gulf defence market
5th November 2019
Amid the glitz and audio-visual wizardry of an upscale Abu Dhabi hotel, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces officially launched ...
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Training
$6.4 billion ADAIR and CCAS contract
31st October 2019
The USAF Air Combat Command has awarded seven companies combined contracts valued at $6.4 billion to support its Combat Air Forces Contracted Air Support (CAF ...
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Training
Antycip assists Agueris
23rd October 2019
Antycip Simulation has teamed with Agueris, a subsidiary of John Cockerill Defense (formally CMI Defense) to deliver ground terrain databases and turret simulation solutions used ...
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Training
BISim to launch VBS4
22nd October 2019
Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) is set to launch the latest iteration of its highly successful Virtual Battlespace visualisation product, VBS4, planning to unveil the system ...
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Training
MTS wins additional $15.8 million ATS III orders
28th September 2019
Georgia-based Meggitt Training Systems (MTS) has announced a number of additional orders that form part of the overall US Army live-fire range combat skills training ...
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Training
Kongsberg and BISim team for Protector training
27th September 2019
Norway’s Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace and Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) have announced the signing of a framework agreement to jointly develop simulation solutions for the ...
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Training
Meggitt wins US Army AWSS programme
26th September 2019
Meggitt Defense Systems has been awarded a $48.5 million contract for the US Army’s Aerial Weapons Scoring System (AWSS) enhancement programme. This so-called hybrid contract (cost-plus-fixed-fee ...
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Training
Iraqi Army to get M1A1 training system
26th September 2019
Orlando-based Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems has been awarded a $9.7 million firm-fixed-price FMS contract for an undisclosed number of M1A1 Abrams Situational Awareness ...
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Training
Cubic and SECAPEM create framework partnership
25th September 2019
French target and adversary air specialists SECAPEM and Cubic Global Defense have signed a framework partnership agreement that will enable the two companies to offer ...
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Training
Team AERALIS adds KBR
20th September 2019
AERALIS, the British company developing a family of new military and aerobatic jet trainer aircraft, has signed a MoU with service provision specialists, KBR. The ...
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Training
Mirage F1 takes to the skies in Texas
19th September 2019
Textron subsidiary, Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC), has undertaken the first flight of its Mirage F1 aircraft from the company’s Alliance Airport Adversary Center of ...
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Training
Swedish Navy awards naval warfare training upgrade
5th September 2019
CAE has been awarded a contract from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) on behalf of the Royal Swedish Navy to upgrade and expand the ...
