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Ascent Flight Training, the Lockheed Martin/VT Group joint venture managing the 25-year United Kingdom Military Flight Training System (UKMFTS) program, has delivered the first flight training device (FTD) to the Hawk training center at Royal Air Force Valley in Wales, the company announced March 1. Part of the ground-based training system element of the Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) component of UKMFTS, the FTD is the first of six such ...
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The U.S. Army has selected SAIC to build and deliver a CH-47 and UH-60 helicopter crew trainer by the middle of next year. The $12 million contract includes an option for the delivery ...
SAIC acquired San Mateo, Calif.-based Forterra Systems’ On-line Interactive Virtual Environment (OLIVE) product line Feb. 15. The real-time 3D virtual world of OLIVE permits users to create environments to conduct training exercises, meetings or ...
 

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It will be hard to turn up at this year’s I/ITSEC exhibition and convention and not feel a sense of optimism. Aside from the December sunshine and warmth Orlando typically offers, this will be another record year for exhibitors — some 550 booths — and the need for training systems ...
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A straw poll of the training community has revealed great concern as to whether the U.K.’s upcoming Strategic Defense Review (SDR) will give in-depth consideration to training requirements and, if so, what impact the review will have. Here, then, are some suggested focus areas that the SDR, which ...
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