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DT MEDIA SELLS TO ROYAL SAUDI ARMED FORCES DT Media won two major contracts with the Royal Saudi Air Force and Navy in conjunction with its Saudi partner, Rahaden Trading and another with the Royal Navy of Oman. The Air Force will use DT Media’s ‘Insight’ recognition training system to maximize accuracy in combat identification. The King Fahad Naval Academy in Jubail will use Fleetman Bridge Trainer for interactive training in ship handling and bridge procedures. The Royal Navy of Oman ordered a bridge trainer for interactive training in ship handling and bridge procedures; a radio communications trainer to sharpen communication skills and a recognition training system to maximise accuracy in combat identification.
Above The Royal Navy of Oman has ordered DT Media’s Fleetman Bridge Trainer. Image credit: DT Media.
SAIC WINS $10M U.S. AIR FORCE CONTRACT Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) won a U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) contract to provide requirements assessment, strategic planning, and programming support. The contract has a one-year base performance period, a one-year option, and is worth more than $10 million if the option is exercised.
DiSTI Releases GL Studio 4.1 DiSTI released GL Studio, Version 4.1 which increases fidelity and image quality and reduces the time required to generate interactive 2D panel images from photographs with the original Photoshop 30
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file importer. GL Studio users can now integrate animated schematic diagrams with speed and direction properties into a GL Studio project with the new Animated Schematics Plug-In.
DISMOUNTED SOLDIER SIMULATION PLATFORM Organic Motion unveiled OpenSTAGE, the world’s first multiple person motion tracking platform that does not require participants to wear attached devices, tags or sensors. The OpenSTAGE technology enhances simulated training environment operations and improves the way
personnel can be prepared for operations such as Military Operations on Urban Terrain (MOUT) and Close Combat Tactical Training Dismounted Soldier (CCTT DS) simulations.
LASER SHOT LAUNCHES REAL COMBAT Laser Shot installed the first of its new Real Combat™ Mixed Reality Immersive Training Systems product line at Fort Bragg to provide close-quarters battle training for live fire and laser based training engagement. The training system combines new technologies, software and components to offer a realistic “trainas-you-fight” environment in a live-fire training exercise to improve training effectiveness and better prepare trainees by increasing their ability to achieve a true “suspension of disbelief” and feel realistically immersed in their training environment.