Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division during the Combined Resolve exercise in Germany. (Photo: US Army)
The Pentagon could have to wait until 2024 to make progress on a number of acquisition and development programmes, many of which have been operating under continuing resolutions (CRs), as US congressmen speaking at I/ITSEC 2023 in Orlando, Florida, that they did not expect FY 2024 budget to be approved before the end of the current calendar year.
‘I believe there will be, as you can tell, a lot of debate over the budget’, Republican representative Matt Gaetz (Florida) stressed. ‘We are literally working on it.’
The overall national defence budget request comprises $886.3 billion, with $842 billion being allocated to the DoD. It
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The service has shown an interest in a range of training solutions from individual to battalion levels and plans to award multiple contracts ahead of new programmes set to run from FY2024 to FY2031.
VirTra has unveiled the integration of VBS4 and BlueIG into its simulator systems with the aim of enhancing the capabilities of its technology for military training.
The company has also used its platform at I/ITSEC 2023 to announce a new partnership with the Switzerland-based firm EDMS.
SAMT, a laserless, plug-and-play mobile system, can incorporate small arms, anti-tank weapons, military vehicles and remote weapon stations.
For the first time CAE exhibited a digital F-16 cockpit integrated with the Simulators Common Architecture Requirements and Standards (SCARS) marking a major step forward in training equipment virtualisation.
Deploying several simulation solutions with different operating systems and programming languages has been a challenge for armed forces worldwide.
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