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![EXCLUSIVE: Air Force reworking approach for T-7A Red Hawk, delaying production by 1 year](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/11/Red-hawk-edwards-scaled-e1700063262779-225x150.jpg)
The trainer’s production decision, or Milestone C date, will be pushed back to 2026, and Boeing will be given an opportunity to make more money if it adds new improvements to the jet, a top Air Force official tells Breaking Defense.
By Michael Marrow![Advancing military training with VR and simulators](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/12/IITSEC-2024-eBook-Featured-Image-V2-225x150.png)
Our latest eBook offers a glimpse into cutting-edge VR, simulators & military training tech showcased at I/ITSEC 2024 in Orlando.
By Breaking Defense![The ways troops are using new technologies to train for today’s threats](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/09/CAE-Featured-Image-225x150.png)
Here’s how training for readiness in digitally immersive training environments is enabling multi-domain operations.
By Breaking Defense![Enterprise training is key for the Army to train as it fights](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/06/Breaking-Defense-HII-Spotlight-Enterprise-Training-2024-Featured-Image-225x150.png)
The Army’s next training systems contract, called Warfighter Training Readiness Solution, adds enterprise training for multi-domain operations.
By Barry Rosenberg![Space Force’s Saltzman: New readiness model ‘fundamentally alters’ space combat prep](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/09/220913_DVIDS_saltzman_talking_7162458-scaled-e1663093540522-225x150.jpg)
The new, tripartite Space Force Generation readiness model will create “a more experienced, capable, and threat-focused crew force,” according to an internal memo obtained by Breaking Defense.
By Theresa Hitchens![Project Convergence: The Army’s tech showcase for the future](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/04/Project-Convergence-2024-eBook-Featured-Image-225x150.jpg)
This eBook collection from the Project Convergence Capstone 4 event covers network changes with ‘C2 Next’, counter-unmanned reform, autonomous ships and more.
By Breaking Defense![Virtual training for every mission in a landscape recreated to match interfaces and software tools normally used in missions](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/09/CAE-VISTA-can-create-essentially-any-C2ISR-platform-in-the-virtual-space.-Photo-courtesy-of-CAE.-225x150.jpg)
In the past, intelligence training focused on counterterrorism and was done through on-the-job training. But the modern threat requires training in contested environments not possible through live operations.
By Breaking Defense![Pentagon must train for ‘uncertainty,’ while better sharing data: Officials](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/09/230929_DVIDS_thai_radar_control_7248855-scaled-e1696007512848-225x150.jpg)
The Pentagon is “working to update the processes, procedures, authorities, to make it easier to share, to incentivize, to reduce those barriers so that we can actually learn from each other,” Rear Adm. Peter Vasely said.
By Jaspreet Gill![The view from VISTA is a training landscape virtually recreating just about any C2ISR platform](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/09/CAE-VISTA-can-create-essentially-any-C2ISR-platform-in-the-virtual-space.-Photo-courtesy-of-CAE.-225x150.jpg)
Training for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance is costly, complex, and forces analysts to go TDY for a Red Flag or Virtual Flag. CAE’s VISTA ends all that.
By Breaking Defense![Pentagon’s global train and equip projects plagued by delays, unreliable equipment: GAO](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/08/colombia-e1693415097876-225x150.jpg)
“The system functioned for approximately three months before becoming inoperative because of factors such as insufficient battery life, damage to ground wiring by local fauna, and sensor failures in extreme temperatures,” the GAO wrote about one $7.6 million project with a partner nation for a ground sensor system.
By Ashley Roque![Ukrainian pilots to train on F-16s in US in weeks: Pentagon](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/08/f-16-scaled-e1692903296319-225x150.jpg)
Flight training is to begin in October, following language training for what’s expected to be “several” Ukrainian pilots and more maintainers.
By Ashley Roque and Michael Marrow![What DoD needs to make JADC2 a reality is Live, Virtual, and Constructive](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/02/The-Navy-is-the-leading-practitioner-of-live-virtual-and-constructive-training-in-the-DoD-and-HII-has-a-strong-history-of-developing-LVC-solutions-in-support-of-the-Navy.-Image-courtesy-of-HII.-225x150.jpeg)
Technical virtuosity is demanded for CONOPS like all-domain operations, and so is LVC simulation so the Navy, Air Force, and Army can train and fight as one.
By Breaking Defense![DoD forming new military training exec steering group for joint, tactical challenges](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/10/Army-network-devices-2018-scaled-e1669754362809-225x150.jpeg)
“We’re trying to create a new paradigm for governing with training, for making sure that all of these efforts that might seem disparate are synchronized, unified, and all marching at the same pace in the same direction with the same vector,” Caroline Baxter said.
By Jaspreet Gill
In this op-ed from Robbin Laird, he takes a look at the importance of the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One in training and readiness.
By Robbin Laird