DefenceTalkThe new platform will use the latest advances in gaming innovation to improve training for personnel making it more realistic, intuitive and immersive, while lowering the costs. SimCentric, a veteran-run software company, has been awarded £300,000 by the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) to develop and trial the simulator. After initial successful trials with the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/gaming-technology-trialed-in-training-uk-armed-forces-74724/

DefenceTalkJOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas: Air Education and Training Command is working to build a faster and smarter Air Force in partnership with multiple major commands to develop a competency-based virtual and augmented-reality training capability for the aircraft maintenance and career enlisted aviator communities. As part of its Integrated Technology Platform initiative, virtual training hangars […]https://www.defencetalk.com/usaf-majcoms-partner-to-create-virtual-aircraft-maintenance-hangars-74286/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. Army and Intel Corporation entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement to collaborate and optimize research in virtual training environments. Intel researchers have been developing technologies to scale user interaction, and they intend to focus on technologies to scale realism and immersion. As platform technology providers, they partner with application developers to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-teams-up-with-intel-to-make-training-virtually-a-reality-47302/

DefenceTalkArmy commands can start thinking now about submitting study proposals to the Army Study Program Management Office for consideration this summer. Meghan Mariman, director of the Army Study Program Management Office, known as ASPMO, which is part of G-8 at the Pentagon, said that each year, her office pays for about 30 studies at the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-studies-range-from-virtual-marksmanship-to-waste-water-reuse-47081/