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National Defense December 2011 Eric Beidel |
Gaming Technology Puts Soldiers' Boots on Ground The Army increasingly is turning to the commercial video game industry to create higher fidelity, less expensive and more portable simulations.  |
National Defense December 2013 Valerie Insinna |
LCS Training Strategy Mixes Education and Video Games Earlier this year, Cubic Advanced Learning Solutions was awarded $300 million worth of contracts to provide video game-style training to sailors for the littoral combat ship crews.  |
National Defense July 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Simulation, Gaming Sector Plagued by Fiscal Challenges Restrictions on the travel of government officials gutted the Defense GameTech Users Conference in Orlando, Fla. Conference attendance, which aims to increase the use of serious games by the Defense Department, dropped to a third of the previous year's show.  |
National Defense February 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Defense Simulation Firms Turn to Commercial Sector for Inspiration With near-term military simulation procurement uncertain, defense contractors are eyeing the commercial sector for potential fixes to looming headaches.  |
National Defense April 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Littoral Combat Ship Sets Sail on First Deployment As the littoral combat ship USS Freedom sets out for Singapore this spring, Navy officials are hoping a smooth first deployment will finally prove the ship's worth to critics.  |
National Defense February 2006 Grace Jean |
Game Branches Out Into Real Combat Training The Army's PC-based video game, America's Army, is morphing beyond its original mission, becoming the platform for numerous other military and government training simulations.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 Courtney E. Howard |
The America's Army development team introduces new version, new partner AA:SF marks the 22nd update to the America's Army computer game and the third release focused on the Special Forces' role in the Global War on Terrorism.  |
National Defense February 2005 Michael Peck |
Soldiers Learn Hazards Of War in Virtual Reality The U.S. Army is testing the utility of a web-based training technology, the military version of the popular multiplayer online role-playing games, that lets soldiers share their combat experiences with troops preparing to deploy.  |
National Defense June 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Army Releases New Video Game Training The Army in March debuted its newest flagship video game, Virtual Battlespace 3, meant to help troops practice tactics before enacting them in a live environment.  |
National Defense August 2010 Eric Beidel |
Remotely Piloted Aviation Looks to Gaming Technology The line separating military training and video games continues to become thinner as the military is training a generation that grew up on video games.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Combat training with COTS Developers of military simulation and training systems and solutions are tapping commercial off-the-shelf technology to keep costs in check and take advantage of commercial hardware and software innovations.  |
National Defense December 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
Budget Cuts, Fuels Costs Could Spur Military Spending on Virtual Training The Air Force estimates it could save about $1.7 billion over five years by reducing flying hours by 5 percent and shifting more of its pilot and crew training to simulators.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 Courtney E. Howard |
War Games Increasingly, military training and simulation companies are tapping commercial gaming technologies to enhance precision and realism for military training, simulation and mission rehearsal systems.  |
National Defense December 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Army, Marine Corps Look for Better Data on Simulator Effectiveness Both services need to establish metrics to calculate just how effective their simulators are. Furthermore, they need a more comprehensive method to compare the costs of live and virtual training.  |
National Defense January 2007 Grace Jean |
Fleet Expansion Hinges On Littoral Combat Ship The Navy took its new warship, the littoral combat ship, from concept to reality in record speed. The service, however, may take years to define the vessel's future missions and develop its various weapon systems.  |
National Defense May 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Jury Still Out on Future of Littoral Combat Ship The Navy's littoral combat ship is under fire by lawmakers who are threatening to pull the plug at a time when the Obama administration is prepared to commit long-term funding to the program.  |
National Defense April 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Littoral Combat Ship Faces Uncertain Future On Feb. 24, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirmed rumors that had been swirling around the littoral combat ship program for months -- instead of going forward with its planned 52 ship buy, purchases would be limited to 32.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 |
U.S. Army selects Cubic small arms training system Officials in the U.S. Army recognized a need to better train soldiers in the engagement of enemies with the help of a virtual, interactive training solution.  |
National Defense December 2004 Michael Peck |
'America's Army' Fan Base Expanding At least half a million video-game aficionados each month play what has become a successful military recruiting tool: America's Army.  |
National Defense August 2014 Dan Parsons |
Littoral Combat Ship Will Be Modified, If Not Replaced The Navy may soon dramatically change course on its decade-long, multi-billion dollar experiment to build a relatively inexpensive surface combatant.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
Training for the War on Terror Military personnel throughout the ranks hone their skills with advanced training and simulation systems.  |
National Defense February 2012 Eric Beidel |
Avatars Invade Military Training Systems The influence of video games on military training has been substantial, and the military's interest in avatars -- for soldiers and other actors in simulations -- is growing.  |
National Defense December 2011 Eric Beidel |
Battle-Scarred Troops Have Message for Army Training: Get Real A decade at war has presented officials with a dilemma: The training environment now must be made even more authentic to hold the attention of soldiers who already have experienced the real deal.  |
National Defense May 2010 Austin Wright |
Recruits Expect, But Don't Always Get, Cutting-Edge Training Simulations Many military recruits grew up playing video games, and they expect training simulations to stack up with the latest Xbox or PlayStation products.  |
National Defense December 2010 Eric Beidel |
Greater Appetite for Unpiloted Aircraft Combat Zones Fuels Demand for Simulators The growing demand for unmanned spy aircraft in combat zones has increased the burden on training organizations that are being asked to produce more operators, and faster.  |
National Defense December 2012 Dan Parsons |
Soldiers Test Impact of Virtual Training on Live-Fire Performance During a recent exercise called Bold Quest, held at Ft. Benning, Ga., soldiers and Marines tried their hands at the latest virtual training technology. The event was aimed at studying whether and how such training can augment live exercises at the small-unit level.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 Edward J. Walsh |
Navy on the verge of major shipboard electronics breakthroughs Open-architecture and COTS technologies are critical for advances in ship propulsion, navigation and guidance, weapons control, ballistic missile defense, modular mission packages, and related systems for the nation's maritime defense.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2009 Edward J. Walsh |
Navy steps out on MODERNIZATION Top Navy leaders are struggling to balance the right kind of ships, the best number of platforms, and the best mix of electronic and electro-optic technologies to meet the changing worldwide threats of the 21st century.  |
National Defense December 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Industry Shows Off New Army Combat Simulation Tools Soldiers could face a myriad of threats in the coming years, and simulation training can affordably and reliably keep them ready for a multitude of situations.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
USS Freedom Demonstrates Its Power Plant Can Handle Vessel's Sensors and Electronics U.S. Navy personnel powered up the nation's first littoral combat ship to demonstrate that the on-board electric plant can deliver the power required by the warship's advanced sensors and electronics systems.  |
National Defense October 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Game Engine May Improve Realism of Tactical Trainer An information technology company is trying to stretch the limits of a popular video-game engine with the goal of making its tactical trainer more lifelike, including improvements in non-player characters' intelligence and more realistic virtual landscapes.  |
National Defense March 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Builders of the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship Pull Out All the Stops When the Navy later this year picks a winner to build its littoral combat ship, no matter which contractor is selected, the decision will be seen as a turning point for the troubled program.  |
National Defense December 2005 Grace Jean |
Navy Purchases 3-D Simulation For Anti-Submarine Warfare The Navy in July awarded an $11.4 million contract to ManTech Gray Hawk, based in Alexandria, Va., to provide a videogame technology-based simulation for the Naval Sea Systems Command.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 Edward J. Walsh |
Shipboard Electronics Tune up for Future Conflicts Navy pushes smart engineering and open-systems architectures for the shipboard electronics and electro-optics aboard the nation's combat fleet.  |
National Defense December 2009 Jean & Erwin |
Navy Sailors Experience 'Virtual' Shipboard Flight Operations A new training simulation immerses junior officers and senior enlisted sailors in flight deck operations from the vantage point of an officer in the control tower.  |
National Defense August 2007 Grace Jean |
Littoral Combat Ship Could Slip Behind Schedule as Price Tag Nears $500 Million In the midst of a contentious debate about the Navy's embattled littoral combat ship program, the service's coveted warship has come under fire by its own supporters on Capitol Hill.  |
National Defense April 2015 Valerie Insinna |
Questions Remain About Navy's Modified Littoral Combat Ship Instead of cutting down the program of record, the service will procure the full 52-ship buy, and the last 20 ships will be outfitted with beefed up weapons, sensors and armor, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert announced in December.  |
National Defense July 2005 Michael Peck |
War Fuels Sales of Ground Combat Training Devices The war in Iraq has boosted the demand for ground-training systems, particularly those dedicated to small-unit operations and convoy security, officials said.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 |
SAIC to Develop U.S. Army Aviation Crew Member Simulators SAIC will develop the first CH-47 Chinook and UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter simulators under terms of an order from the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI).  |
National Defense February 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Training and Simulation Industry Optimistic About Future Opportunities Smaller defense budgets are forcing the military to conduct fewer costly live exercises and instead put troops in the cockpits and drivers' seats of more affordable simulators.  |
National Defense December 2003 Sandra I. Erwin |
Littoral Combat Ship Sensors Pose Integration Challenges The LCS is a new warship being designed specifically for coastal operations, in particular anti-submarine warfare, maritime patrol, and mine detection and clearance. It must be integrated with a dispersed force of smaller networked platforms with distributed unmanned sensors.  |
National Defense December 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Sailors Move From Classrooms To Shipboard Simulators The U.S. Navy will be plowing millions of dollars into new simulators that will be used aboard ships, rather than ashore, to help sailors acquire specialized skills before they depart on a mission  |
National Defense September 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Lockheed Martin Tries to Lure International Customers for Littoral Combat Ship Lockheed Martin Corp. is advertising a "multi-mission" variant of the U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship here in hopes of garnering international customers.  |
National Defense December 2004 Joe Pappalardo |
Demand for Non-Combat Skills Fuels Interest in Games The success of tactical shooting games as military training tools has bolstered the case for expanding the use of this technology into non-combat areas.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 Ed Walsh |
The Next Step for Shipboard Electronics Growth of the U.S. Navy's fleet of surface warships and submarines is riding on systems innovation and new technologies to introduce open-systems solutions for network-centric warfare, ballistic-missile defense, and other capabilities for the 21st century maritime warfare.  |
National Defense December 2007 Breanne Wagner |
Simulations Promise Better Training for Combat Medics As improvised explosive devices continue to claim lives and maim troops, a new market has emerged for medical simulations to train combat medics.  |
National Defense October 2015 Taylor Feuss |
Army Leaning on New Crop of Soldier System Simulators As limited budgets and time constraints make live training more difficult, the Army must continue to rely on simulators to prepare soldiers for combat.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 |
U.S. Army Officers Select Cubic Virtual Training Systems for Use in Iraq, Afghanistan Officers at the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation and Training Instrumentation (PEO STRI) use Cubic's Engagement Skills Trainer 2000 (EST 2000) small arms training system.  |
National Defense August 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Army Officials Detail New Live-Virtual Training System At a time when the Army is shrinking and financial resources are becoming scarce, the service is hoping to field a new system that will merge live and virtual training into a seamless environment.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 Edward J. Walsh |
Navy Advances Surface-Ship Technologies Program managers go all-out on open systems and COTS to upgrade existing destroyers, cruisers, and other surface warships, while looking ahead to new destroyer and cruiser electronics and electro-optics technologies.  |