Advancing military training with VR and simulators

Advancing military training with VR and simulators
Advancing military training with VR and simulators

Our latest eBook offers a glimpse into cutting-edge VR, simulators & military training tech showcased at I/ITSEC 2024 in Orlando.

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The ways troops are using new technologies to train for today’s threats

The ways troops are using new technologies to train for today’s threats
The ways troops are using new technologies to train for today’s threats

Here’s how training for readiness in digitally immersive training environments is enabling multi-domain operations.

How to do integrated training, Marine Corps style

How to do integrated training, Marine Corps style
How to do integrated training, Marine Corps style

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.

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Enterprise training is key for the Army to train as it fights

Enterprise training is key for the Army to train as it fights
Enterprise training is key for the Army to train as it fights

The Army’s next training systems contract, called Warfighter Training Readiness Solution, adds enterprise training for multi-domain operations.

Space Force’s Saltzman: New readiness model ‘fundamentally alters’ space combat prep

Space Force’s Saltzman: New readiness model ‘fundamentally alters’ space combat prep
Space Force’s Saltzman: New readiness model ‘fundamentally alters’ space combat prep

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.

Project Convergence: The Army’s tech showcase for the future

Project Convergence: The Army’s tech showcase for the future
Project Convergence: The Army’s tech showcase for the future

This eBook collection from the Project Convergence Capstone 4 event covers network changes with ‘C2 Next’, counter-unmanned reform, autonomous ships and more.

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Virtual training for every mission in a landscape recreated to match interfaces and software tools normally used in missions

Virtual training for every mission in a landscape recreated to match interfaces and software tools normally used in missions
Virtual training for every mission in a landscape recreated to match interfaces and software tools normally used in missions

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.

Pentagon must train for ‘uncertainty,’ while better sharing data: Officials

Pentagon must train for ‘uncertainty,’ while better sharing data: Officials
Pentagon must train for ‘uncertainty,’ while better sharing data: Officials

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.

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The view from VISTA is a training landscape virtually recreating just about any C2ISR platform

The view from VISTA is a training landscape virtually recreating just about any C2ISR platform
The view from VISTA is a training landscape virtually recreating just about any C2ISR platform

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.

Pentagon’s global train and equip projects plagued by delays, unreliable equipment: GAO

Pentagon’s global train and equip projects plagued by delays, unreliable equipment: GAO
Pentagon’s global train and equip projects plagued by delays, unreliable equipment: GAO

“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.

Ukrainian pilots to train on F-16s in US in weeks: Pentagon

Ukrainian pilots to train on F-16s in US in weeks: Pentagon
Ukrainian pilots to train on F-16s in US in weeks: Pentagon

Flight training is to begin in October, following language training for what’s expected to be “several” Ukrainian pilots and more maintainers.

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What DoD needs to make JADC2 a reality is Live, Virtual, and Constructive

What DoD needs to make JADC2 a reality is Live, Virtual, and Constructive
What DoD needs to make JADC2 a reality is Live, Virtual, and Constructive

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.

DoD forming new military training exec steering group for joint, tactical challenges

DoD forming new military training exec steering group for joint, tactical challenges
DoD forming new military training exec steering group for joint, tactical challenges

“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.

Space Force to pioneer ‘integrated testing,’ digital range concepts

Space Force to pioneer ‘integrated testing,’ digital range concepts
Space Force to pioneer ‘integrated testing,’ digital range concepts

“We absolutely believe we will save money,” said Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. DT Thompson. Other military departments are looking into a similar approach, another Space Force officer said.