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TrainingIndustrynews
Published Bi-Monthly • october 2012
Vol. 23 • No. 4
NTSA’s
In This Issue
1 Current News
2 President’s News
3The Global
Marketplace
5Training &
Simulation
Report
7
Contracts
8 Who’s Where
9Major Program
Report
12NTSA Corporate
Members
Current news
IAI Plans More Spending
On R&D, Advanced Technologies
Reprinted from Aerospace Daily & Defense Report
The new chief at Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)
plans to push the company to spend more on
research and development and increase investments
in technologies including advanced cyber, stealth,
radar, communications, air defense, gallium nitride
microchips and unmanned aircraft. On the commercial side, the emphasis will be on producing
longer-range executive jets.
There also is pressure in both Israel and the
U.S. to create lower-cost stealth unmanned aircraft
designs like the RQ-170 that can serve as a truck
and network node using easily interchangeable intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance payloads.
“Those are delicate things. I cannot elaborate, but
IAI through the years has done everything it can to
keep the technological and operational edge,” said
Joseph Weiss, IAI’s new chief executive officer.
Cyber Chief: Cyber Legislation Needed ASAP
Reprinted from Defense Daily
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The head of Cyber Command warned that congressional delay in passing cybersecurity legislation is
putting the nation at risk, while he also sought to
allay concerns about the government receiving information about the private sector’s internet activity.
Army Gen. Keith Alexander, commander of the
Cyber Command and head of the National Security
Agency, avoided commenting during a speech on
the multiple cybersecurity bills lawmakers are debating. Yet he emphasized the need for legislation that
enables and encourages infrastructure entities, such
as electrical grids and banks, to quickly tell the government when they are under cyber attack.
“One of the things we have to have (with legislation), is if the critical-infrastructure entities, such as
electrical grids are being attacked by something, we
need them to tell us at network speed,” Alexander
said during a speech at the American Enterprise
Institute think tank in Washington.
“It’s like a missile coming into the United States,”
he said, adding that someone would not notify the
government about an incoming missile via “snail
mail.” He said the notification about cyber attacks
could be in “real time,” but under a construct where
citizens know “that we’re not looking at (taking
actions that would raise concerns about) civil liberties and privacy.”
Offense at Last
Reprinted from Aviation Week & Space Technology
After years of frustration in the development of
cybertools, cyberpolicy and cybercommand and
control, both the White House and the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) have
new initiatives. Plan X is Darpa’s concept to
improve cyberwarfare weaponry, define operational
employment and deflect counterattacks. The program is expected to invest $110 million into research
during the next five years to support offensive military operations.
Darpa expects to generate a formal solicitation for proposals in the form of a broad agency
announcement. That document is designed to deliver details on the capabilities being sought.
Plan X will align with Darpa’s cyberanalytical
framework and is being organized to tie together
efforts in academia with those of defense industries
and commercial technology to develop the platforms
needed by the Pentagon to plan for, conduct and
assess cyberwarfare in a way similar to how kinetic
strikes are handled now.
UCAS Takes More Steps Toward Carrier Ops
With the first phase of X-47B flight testing complete, the U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman are
turning their focus to preparing the unmanned
combat air system (UCAS) for the first trials of a
pilotless, tailless, stealthy aircraft on an aircraft carrier deck. The program, estimated to cost at least
$1.5 billion over six years, is a linchpin in the Navy’s
efforts to introduce unmanned aircraft onto its carCurrent News cont. on page 4
President’s notes
Rear Adm. Robb, USN (Ret.)
For NTSA Members:
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veryone from SecDef on down has stressed the vital importance of not repeating the past error of hollowing out the force
following drawdowns of overseas operations. If readiness is not
to suffer during this transition, we must increase our investment
in cost effective training systems, concepts and technologies that
allow our forces and the industrial base to adapt to an ever changing list of current and future security threats affecting the nation.
Given these two imperatives--the need to reduce costs wherever
and whenever possible while simultaneously maintaining high
levels of readiness through training--and we have a perfect argument for the augmentation of simulation training across the board. Couple this with simulation’s increasing ability, through dramatic
technological advances, to fully supplant live training in many
instances--and it becomes clear why modeling and simulation are
enjoying a long second look within the national security establishment. In fact, I believe we are now in a period when modeling,
simulation and virtual reality training methodologies are not
merely an adjunct to live training--they are indispensable.
The American people continue to develop and expand their
understanding of what constitutes and affects the strength of the
nation. To this point, the last chairman of the Joint Chiefs stated
the principal threat to the United States was the national debt.
Modeling and Simulation now provides key decision support for
the security of our nation in a larger context. Some of the most
dramatic breakthroughs in M&S applications are now occurring in such diverse fields as economics, transportation, energy,
climatology, epidemiology, disaster preparedness, environmental
research and a host of areas unforeseen a few short years ago. In
addition, two rapidly evolving areas—unmanned air systems utilization and cyber security preparedness—rely heavily on simulated
environments for training that are indistinguishable from the
actual mission.
We at NTSA are proud to play a key role in advancing M&S
applications and technologies across the entire spectrum of use.
We are excited and optimistic about its future and its ability to
make a meaningful, lasting contribution to our national security
and national well being. We are postured to serve as a constant
point of contact for government, academia, industry, research
organizations and the military to exchange information, share
knowledge, align business interests, and in general to stimulate the
growth and overall dynamism of the industry and community of
practice. While we of course pursue these goals through a series of
conferences, meetings and exhibitions throughout the year,
our Interservice/Industry Training Simulation and Education
Conference (I/ITSEC) is single most important such event worldwide, offering an indispensable venue for first-hand contact that
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cannot be replicated in any other format. I/ITSEC is a conference as well as an exhibition, making its contribution orders of
magnitude greater than a single-element event. At I/ITSEC, the
present and future promise and potential of modeling, simulation
and virtual reality technologies are explored and analyzed through
a series of ground breaking special events and dozens of probing
research papers and presentations.
We are proud that I/ITSEC remains the world’s largest event
of its kind and an irreplaceable date on the calendar of the worldwide modeling and simulation community, and are committed to
making it better. We continue to see increased interest and attendance by foreign governments and business. This year we also are
highlighting excellence in acquisition with a one of a kind panel
comprised of the Honorable Frank Kendall (Undersecretary of
Defense for Acquisition and Technology) and the lead acquisition
professionals from the four Services.
Two things that became extremely clear to me this summer as
we worked with our government and industry partners to navigate a tough budget climate and backlash from the GSA scandal;
1) support for I/ITSEC has never been better, and 2) I/ITSEC
brings great and tangible value to its constituents. Our non-profit
sponsorship of the event and robust training, education, scientific
and technical programs continue to put I/ITSEC at the top of the
“must attend” lists across government and industry. In 2011, over
20,000 attendees interacted with more than 550 exhibitors from
industry, government, academia and research organizations in an
exhibition hall covering more than half a million square feet. This
is the place M&S leadership meets and that will be true again in
December 2012.
See you in Orlando!
Upcoming events
Registration is open for these upcoming events.
Orlando, FL
I/ITSEC 2012
http://www.iitsec.org
December 3-6, 2012 •
Hampton, VA
MODSIM World 2013
Hampton Roads Convention Center
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Please visit www.trainingsystems.org
for more information or contact Barbara McDaniel
at (703)247-2569 or [email protected]
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The Global marketplace
Russia to Build Thales Imaging Systems
Reprinted from Jane’s Defence Weekly
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NTSA Executive
Committee Officers
Chairman
Mr. Trevor Huth
DRC
Vice Chairman
Mr. De Voorhees
GDIT
Secretary
Mr. Pete Swan
VT Mäk
Deputy, M&S Awards
Mr. Perry Geib
ATSIM, Inc.
Deputy, STEM Initiative
Mr. Charles Bartel
Moog, Inc.
NDIA President
LTG Larry Farrell, USAF (Ret.)
NTSA President
RADM James Robb, USN (Ret.)
Russia is to manufacture French thermal imaging equipment following the signing of a contract between Thales and Rosoboronexport at
Eurosatory 2012 in Paris. The contract is the
latest in a series of agreements by Russia with
Western firms for the production/purchase by
Russia of Western equipment. At a formal signing ceremony Rosoboronexport and Thales
Optronics finalized a license agreement for the
production of the Thales’ Catherine XP thermal
imagers at the Volgoda optical-mechanical plant
in Russia. It is understood that Russia intends to
install the Catherine XP thermal imaging systems
on Russian-built armored vehicles, intended for
both the domestic and export markets. Thales
and Rosoboronexport have a significant history
of past defense trade, although this signing is
understood to mark the first licensing agreement
of Thales Optronics equipment within Russia.
Will Foreign Markets Provide the Boost?
having great potential for foreign military sales
is General Dynamics’ M1 Abrams tank. But
“if you’re talking about countries that can be
considered contenders to buy the M1, you can
probably count them on half a hand’s worth of
fingers,” cautioned Byron Callan, director at
Capital Alpha Partners. Since American systems
are highly engineered, there will always be affordability issues, he said.
Even if Foreign Military Sales increase for
U.S.-based defense manufacturers, Michael
Lewis, director of Equity Research at Lazard
Capital Markets, said he doesn’t see enough gains
to offset reduced spending by the Pentagon.
“Everyone is talking about the international market and that their international market sales are
going to expand,” he said. “Are we going to see a
material increase in actual dollar sales to international participants, or is international becoming
a larger portion of a company’s sales base because
the U.S. market is contracting? I think that it’s
the latter.”
Reprinted from Defense News
France, Germany Sign Defense Agreement
Gen. Ray Odierno, The U.S. Army chief of staff,
is fond of reminding colleagues, audiences—and
perhaps most importantly, the media—that the
Asia-Pacific region is home to seven of the world’s
10 largest land armies, which makes his service
a critical component of any strategic “pivot” to
the region. The leaders of those seven armies
no doubt are paying close attention as Defense
Secretary Leon Panetta jetted around the region
in a series of meetings with his counterparts to
discuss regional security.
The region also is home to the world’s five
largest arms importers—India, South Korea,
Pakistan, China and Singapore—which together
represent 30 percent of global arms sales. India
alone is responsible for 10 percent of all global
arms imports, according to SIPRI, the Swedish
research center. That makes the Asia-Pacific region
in general, and India in particular, important for
U.S. defense manufacturers looking to expand
their international reach now that the domestic
market is heading for some belt-tightening.
One of the platforms that has been touted as
NTSA Training Industry new s
France and Germany have signed a wide-ranging
letter of intent that will broaden military procurement and development cooperation in areas
ranging from unmanned aerial vehicles to future
land combat systems: an agreement that points to
greater multi-lateral cooperation in Europe, with
Paris as a hub. Germany announced the letter
of intent on 14 June. It had been signed by the
countries’ defense ministers earlier in the day.
The letter of intent covers the exploration of
opportunities relating to space technologies; land
systems (including future artillery systems and
lightweight combat systems); helicopters; air and
missile defense; common aircraft approval standards; marine systems; logistics; and mediumaltitude long-endurance unmanned aerial systems
for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
roles. Five working groups will be established by
Berlin and Paris to drive cooperation in the space,
land systems, helicopters, military aircraft and
missile defense domains.
Global Marketplace cont. on page 9
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Current from page 1
rier decks alongside a future fleet of stealthy, single-engine F-35s
made by Lockheed Martin. Though UCAS was crafted merely as a
demonstration effort, it is a key precursor to the unmanned carrier
launched airborne surveillance and strike program that the Navy
hopes will enable it to actually field four to six unmanned aircraft
on a carrier in the near term.
The Navy’s two X-47B air vehicles executed 23 flights between
February 2011 and May 2012 during testing at Edwards AFB,
California. Both have now arrived at NAS Patuxent River,
Maryland, to begin the next phase of flight testing in preparation
for sea-based trials next year, says Carl Johnson, vice president for
Northrop Grumman’s X-47B.
The plan for the Edwards testing phase, which was scoped to
include the envelope expansion work needed to operate on and
around a carrier, included nearly double the number of flights
executed. “We finished way ahead of plan because our modeling
and simulation was very good and because our aircraft was very
reliable,” Johnson says. During testing at Edwards, the aircraft
exceeded 15,000 feet altitude and executed maneuvers essential for
aircraft carrier operations.
AUVSI Releases Code of Conduct to Build Confidence in UAVs
Reprinted Aerospace Daily & Defense Report
Anticipating regulations clearing the use of unmanned aircraft
systems in U.S. airspace, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle
Systems International (AUVSI) is hoping to set a baseline of
standards with the release of an “Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Operations Industry Code of Conduct.”
FAA is under congressional mandate to create a plan that would
integrate unmanned aircraft systems into national airspace by
September 30, 2015. The deadline is one of a series regarding
unmanned aircraft systems that the FAA must meet for the gradual
integration of the systems.
The code of conduct, meant as guidance for unmanned aircraft systems manufacturers and users, comes as AUVSI has been
pushing regulators to expedite release of a proposal covering the
operation of small unmanned aircraft systems. AUVSI wrote
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in May saying the proposal must be released “to begin the debate” on the integration of
unmanned aircraft systems.
AUVSI acknowledges that the future of unmanned aircraft
systems depends on the ability to safely operate the systems.
“The nature of unmanned aerial systems and the environments
[in] which they operate, when not managed properly, can and
will create issues that need to be addressed,” the association says.
“Our industry has an obligation to conduct our operations in a
safe manner that minimizes risks and instills confidence in our
systems.”
But whether the code will help quell concerns over unmanned
aircraft systems remains to be seen. Aviation community leaders
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have questioned the effectiveness of see-and-avoid mechanisms,
while civil liberties groups have raised privacy questions.
India Prepares to Install Missile Shield
India is preparing to install a shield to protect against intermediaterange ballistic missiles and ICBMs in some of the country’s major
cities. “The final locations, which have adequate stealth features
and protection against enemy sabotage, will soon be determined
by the government to install the ballistic missile defense system,” a
defense ministry official says.
A detailed proposal is currently being prepared for approval
by the Indian government. “Initially the sites are likely to be the
national capital, New Delhi, and the country’s financial hub,
Mumbai,” the defense official said.
The shield, developed by India’s Defense Research and
Development Organization (DRDO), has undergone a series of
successful tests. It can destroy an incoming ballistic missile with
a range of up to 2,000 km (1,240 miles). The DRDO used variants of surface-to-surface, short-range Prithvi missiles as simulated
targets and intercepted incoming missiles in test firings.
“India’s ballistic missile defense program has a two-tiered
system, with the Prithvi air defense for high-altitude, exoatmospheric [interception] and advanced air defense for low altitude
endoatmospheric interception. Future plans include two new antiballistic missiles at a range of around 5,000 kilometers by 2016,”
the defense official said.
DRDO said the system is comparable with the U.S. Patriot system, which was successfully used during the 1990 war against Iraq.
Senators to Industry: Describe DoD Budget Cut Perils
Seven hawkish senators asked the nation’s largest defense contractors to describe how a potential $500 billion cut in Pentagon
spending over the next decade would impact their firms. The senators—members of the Senate Armed Services Committee including Ranking Member John McCain (R-AZ)—sent the inquiry
letters as they try to learn more about the impact of the so-called
sequestration cuts to the defense budget, which may start next
January unless Congress stops them.
The Senate Armed Services Committee members say that
though the sequestration cuts are due to start in six months, under
current law, “significant questions exist regarding the implementation of these automatic budget cuts and how they will impact
federal government operations, our economy, and the defense
industrial base.” The senators tell the defense contractors that
“we must have a full understanding of the implications of budget sequestration on the defense industry in order to make fully
informed decisions on defense programs and activities as we move
forward in the fiscal year 2013 budget review.”
Current News cont. on page 10
Training & Simulation report
Growth Expected in Training and Simulation as Budgets Shrink
New Testing Simulator for MEADS Delivered
The virtual and simulation-based training sector is expected to
grow in the coming years as military officials seek to balance the
reality of shrinking defense budgets with the critical need of combat readiness. Simulation-based training offers cost advantages
“that cannot be ignored in today’s constrained budget environment,” according to Chris Stellwag, marketing communications
director for Canada’s CAE. “The increased cost of fuel, environmental impacts and significant wear and tear on weapon systems
all point to the greater use of simulation and synthetic training,”
he said.
Alongside the potential cost savings are some important advantages to the training itself, according to companies that produce
these technologies. “The military wants the ability to plan for missions using ‘what if ’ analysis and decision-support tools, rehearse
for missions in real time and then execute missions that will leave
less room for surprise outcomes—and be able to do this in real
time and in simulation,” said Stellwag.
The U.S. Defense Department will spend almost $14 billion
on training and simulation in 2012, according to some estimates.
Lockheed Martin expects the sector will take on added value and
importance as budget cuts take effect in the coming years and
operational needs become more complex.
“Simulation as part of an overall training program presents a
safe, effective tool to prepare soldiers, airmen, sailors and cyber
experts for the scenarios they’ll encounter during their missions,”
said Jim Weitzel, vice president of training solutions for Lockheed
Martin Global Training and Logistics. “The objective is [to] train
military personnel the way that they’ll fight, and the technology
now available offers unprecedented value for training flexibility
and increased realism.”
Quantum 3D, a California-based company with 15 years in
the business, is expressing similar confidence, thanks to budget
constraints and interest in lower-cost but still realistic training
scenarios. For Quantum 3D, maker of ExpeditionDI—a self-contained, wearable, fully-immersive close combat simulator—cuts
to the Defense Department budget mean a greater need for its
products: the company’s virtual infantry training program is one
of its main growth drivers.
“The military is transitioning across the board to virtual simulation to help with troop readiness [and] our products are benefiting
from that. We see it as a positive,” said Pratish Shah, marketing
director of Quantum 3D.
A new simulator designed to increase the rate of data collection to
reduce time needed ahead of flight tests for the medium extended
air defense system has been delivered to the White Sands Missile
Range in New Mexico, Lockheed Martin said. Lockheed Martin,
which is one of three firms behind the international venture developing the system, said the MEADS System Simulator generates
real-time synthetic targets and validates operational MEADS system performance ahead of live testing. Germany’s LFK and Italy’s
MBDA are the other two firms that form MEADS International.
“MSS-M allows MEADS to perform real-time, end-to-end,
hardware-in-the-loop simulation of various scenarios in the field
without having to use live targets for each test,” said MEADS
International President Dave Berganini. “The combination of
simulated and live targets greatly reduces the overall cost of the
flight test program. Our efforts to develop a high-fidelity simulation and the MSS-M enable a much more cost-effective MEADS
test program.”
The United States, Germany and Italy are the three countries
funding MEADS, which is a mobile system to defend against missiles and is meant to eventually replace the Patriot system.
Lifting the Lid on Next-Gen Avionics Research
Whether it is highly integrated antennas that reduce drag, certifiable data links for unmanned aircraft or simulation tools for
NextGen airspace research, it is not often that a major manufacturer takes the wraps off its internal research and development.
John Borghese, vice president for Rockwell Collin’s Advanced
Technology Center (ATC), says 70 percent of the research organization’s funding is aligned with the company’s business units
and 30 percent is directed toward long-term growth, beyond
the five-year strategic plans of the businesses. Much of the externally funded, far-horizon work is for the U.S. Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
With its acquisitions of simulator maker NLX in 2003 and
visual-system specialist Evans & Sutherland in 2006, Rockwell
Collins became a player in the simulation business, reflected
within the ATC by research into integrated live, virtual and
constructive (LVC) training. Combining live aircraft with flight
simulators (virtual) and computer-generated forces (constructive)
to conduct more realistic training, LVC was tried in the 1990s,
but failed for lack of computing power, data links and multi-level
security. “All three are available today,” Borghese says.
While it works under an Office of Naval Research contract
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Training from page 5
exploring how to maintain flight safety when inserting virtual and
constructive entities into live aircraft cockpits, the ATC is planning to use LVC to conduct NextGen research. “We can bring in
air traffic control, the airline operations center and pilots and use
LVC as a prototyping tool,” he says. “We can use LVC to do whatifs, to prevent automation surprises and look at the precursors to
accident.” Research began in June, using a network linking NASA
and FAA facilities with flight deck simulators at Rockwell Collins.
On the Map
Maps are clearly a vital tool for any military commander, but the
days when a two-dimensional, printed representation of an area
will suffice have long since passed. Dynamic mapping of the battlespace is not new, but 21st century technologies are revolutionizing the collection, dissemination and analysis of tactical intelligence. At the 2012 Defense Geospatial Intelligence conference,
participants mulled techniques from simple refinements to enable
easier comprehension of an area of operations, to radical concepts
intended to predict events based on analysis of patterns in fused
geolocated data sets.
While historically geoint has been land-based, the maritime
domain is becoming increasingly important, driven by the resurgence of piracy, which brings greater urgency to the need for
accurate intelligence about shipping movements. Also, year-round
access to formerly ice-bound routes demands real-time updates
and high-grain detail to enable safe passage through constantly
changing sea lanes.
The Italian company e-Geos, owned jointly by Finmeccanica and
Thales, can collect two complete sets of images of the Northwest
Passage within 17 hours from its Cosmo-SkyMed constellation.
Analysis of images taken minutes apart can help calculate the speed
of the movement of ice and thus aid route prediction.
ExactEarth of Cambridge, Ontario, has built a lower-orbiting
constellation specifically to map shipping movements over oceans.
At 500-750 km the satellites can receive signals from shipboard
automatic identification systems, enabling real-time intelligence
on any vessel deviating from its planned route, and flagging the
location of ships that have their automatic identification intelligence turned off.
The benefits of geoint are also apparent to homeland security and police forces. GeoEye of McLean, Virginia, acquired the
predictive analysis company Spada in 2010 and now supplies
more than 40 customers with predictive geospatial intelligence.
The software analyzes geo-tagged data to discover relationships
between events and features in the physical and human environment; a proprietary algorithm then predicts future occurrences.
The company has demonstrated prediction of phenomena as varied as burglaries and the arrival of invasive species.
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Raytheon Develops Missile Defense Analysis Tool
With politicians in the U.S. clamoring for a “hedge” against future
missile threats, and budget cuts anticipated on both sides of the
Atlantic, Raytheon is pitching a “smart defense” approach. With
internal investments, over the last 18 months the company has
designed an architectural analysis tool to show how NATO can
leverage current missile defense systems against various scenarios,
says Wes Kremer, vice president of air and missile defense systems.
The modeling capability would allow governments to look at different threats to enable them to pool their assets, but the system’s
benefit may extend beyond a mere calculation of which combination of weapons and sensors can best counter an incoming threat.
“What it really proved is the whole can be greater than the sum of
the parts,” Kremer said.
U.S. Navy Trains As It Maintains
As the U.S. Navy tries to get its fleet shipshape following years of
neglect, the service has found a way to train its sailors to do a better job of learning the ropes on their own vessels and equipment.
“Rear Adm. Dave Thomas, commander, Naval Surface Force,
Atlantic and his team have established several waterfront initiatives
over the past two years to deliver maintenance training directly to
our sailors on the deckplates,” Adm. J.C. Harvey Jr., commander
of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, said in a blog.
“These various assist teams, mini-camps, and maintenance and
operator shipboard training initiatives provide valuable training
for our sailors on their equipment, in their spaces,” Harvey says.
“Since every ship is unique, this style of ship-specific training
avoids the broad ‘not exactly what you will see on your ship’ course
content often experienced by our sailors in schoolhouse instruction. Instead, this training is truly hands-on, over-the-shoulder
instruction that emphasizes standards and demonstrates ‘what
right looks like.’”
He adds, “The training embodied in ‘the ship is the classroom’
delivers hull-specific instruction, instills pride of ownership, brings
system experts from the technical communities to the waterfront,
provides technical oversight to maintenance, and eliminates the
need for some generic schoolhouse courses of instruction.”
New Vision System
FLIR Systems Inc. has developed a lightweight driver’s thermal
vision system (DTVS) driver’s camera designed to enhance driver
safety and awareness through state-of-the-art thermal imaging
technology. The DTVS cameras will undergo final user trials
before a formal launch expected later this year, the company says.
“The Iraq and Afghan wars with the harsh driving conditions
encountered and the requirement for 24/7 operations ushered in
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Contracts
U.S. Navy Awards Hovercraft Contract
The U.S. Navy recently awarded a $212.7 million fixed-priced,
incentive-fee contract for the detail design and construction of
a ship-to-shore connector test and training craft to New Orleansbased Textron. The cumulative value of the hovercraft contract
could reach as high as $570.5 million, if the Navy exercises
options for up to eight additional craft.
The Navy touts the ship-to-shore connector as a high-speed,
fully amphibious landing craft with a 30-year service life capable
of carrying a 74-ton payload that can travel at speeds of more than
35 kt., day or night. The sea craft will support rapid movement of
Marine expeditionary forces from the sea base to shore and can
tactically deliver personnel and heavy equipment to trafficable terrain “well beyond the beach with the built-in reliability to operate
in the harshest littoral environments.”
The contract framework for the ship-to-shore was a Navy-led
effort, enabling “mid-tier builders without air-cushioned vehicle
experience to compete for the detail design and construction contract,” the Navy says, an approach that “uses the government’s
expertise with the flexibility to make component selections and
complete design details for optimal producibility and lowest possible acquisition costs.”
It has been a while since the Navy became so heavily involved
in a design of this nature. “This is the first major naval acquisition
program in more than 15 years to be designed in-house,” notes
Navy Secretary Ray Mabous. “The level of detail provided by the
government design increased competition, reduced overall procurement costs and leads to smooth transition to full production.”
The Navy says the sea craft is an “evolutionary replacement for
the current landing craft, air cushioned vehicles.”
Pentagon Tests New Way of Estimating Program Costs
The Pentagon is putting its new weapons cost-cutting strategy to
its first big test as it negotiates with Lockheed Martin over the
price of the next batch of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters. Contract negotiations for the production of 32 Joint Strike Fighters began earlier
this year. This will be the first opportunity for Pentagon officials
to see how well their “should-cost” approach to setting weapons
prices works.
Under this approach, Defense Department experts review the
program’s technical requirements, production and testing processes, and staffing to determine what they think the price should
be. That figure is based on reductions that could be made in
those areas and efficiencies that should come over time with the
program, such as improved supply chain management.
An independent office in the Pentagon—the Cost Assessment
and Program Evaluation Group, and before that, the Cost Analysis
Improvement Group—already assesses the cost of weapon systems for budgeting purposes using sophisticated models that
consider past weapon costs. Historically, the budget figure is the
floor from which costs rise, not the ceiling under which costs are
contained, defense officials have said.
L-3 Wins U.S. Special Ops Satellite Terminal Contract
Reprinted from Space News
L-3 Global Communications Solutions of Victor, New York, will
supply deployable satellite terminals to U.S. Special Operations
Command under a contract potentially valued at $500 million
over five years, the Pentagon announced June 20. The indefinitedelivery, indefinite-quantity contract for the Special Operations
Forces Tactical Assured Connectivity System family of terminals
has a minimum value of $7.5 million, the Pentagon said.
According to a Special Operations Command SOFTACS bid
solicitation, the terminals will be compatible with military and
commercial satellite communications systems operating in the C-,
X-, Ka- and Ku-band frequencies. Antenna aperture diameters will
range from less than one meter to 2.4 meters, depending on the
operating frequency.
Pentagon Counter-IED Work Up for Grabs
About 13 percent of the $6.7 billion the Pentagon is slated to
spend between fiscal 2011 and fiscal 2017 for fighting improvised
explosive devices is still up for grabs, with no contractor chosen
yet, according to an Aviation Week Intelligence Network analysis of
data provided by Avascent 050, an online market analysis toolkit
for global defense programs.
Countering improvised explosive devices had become a major
thrust for the Pentagon in the first half of the previous decade
after the U.S. began operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Enemy
forces started to attack the road convoys and ground logistic
chains of U.S. and allied forces with the powerful, lethal and wellcamouflaged roadside bombs.
Data lists the contractor as unknown for $3.5 billion in improvised explosive device contracts during that time, the analysis
shows, due in large part to the substantial number of contracts
associated with the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat
Organization, whose funding documentation makes it difficult to
ascertain the exact contractor involved in many deals.
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Who’s where
n Maj. Gen. Bob Steel, USAF (Ret.), has joined Tenax Aerospace,
Ridgeland, Mississippi, to lead strategic business development
initiatives focused on government, defense and special missions.
He was commandant of the U.S. National War College.
n David M. Van Buren has been named senior vice president,
business strategy of New York-based L-3 Communications. He
was the U.S. Air Force service acquisition executive.
n Jim Fraser has been tapped to be vice president, government
relations of Thales USA, Arlington, Virginia. He was vice president, political relations and compliance at BAE Systems.
n Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, Boulder,
Colorado, named Jeff Osterkamp vice president for engineering.
n Hughes Network Systems, Germantown, Maryland, appointed Col. Charles H. Cynamon, USAF (Ret.), senior director of its
Defense and Intelligence Systems Division.
n Edward A. Timmes joined General Dynamics Advanced
Information Systems, Fairfax, Virginia, as vice president of its
Intelligence Systems business in the Cyber Systems division.
n Jay I. Johnson, chairman and chief executive of General
Dynamics, Fairfax, Virginia, will retire December 31. Johnson,
who joined the General Dynamics board in 2003, became chairman and chief executive in 2010. The board selected Phebe N.
Novakovic to succeed Johnson as chairman and chief executive.
She has served as president and chief operating officer since May.
n David Davenport has been promoted to vice president and
regional operations manager at New York-based FlightSafety
International’s Gulfstream Learning Center in Savannah, Georgia.
n Richard A. Klumpp, Jr., has been named director of strategic
planning and deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and programs at U.S. Air Force headquarters. He has been director of
U.S. Forces-Afghanistan/liaison to the U.S. Embassy from U.S.
Central Command in Kabul.
Training from page 6
the need for driver vision enhancers,” said Ulf Kapborg, business
development director, Land Systems Europe FLIR Systems AB,
Imaging, Sweden. Cost has been prohibitive, but now, Kapborg
says they have “a DTVS platform which is not only affordable but
easily retrofitted to existing vehicles with minimum engineering
changes required. We see a huge market for this system worldwide
in military, paramilitary, police and public service organizations.”
Makeshift Bridge Trainer
Nuke Weapon Simulators
SIM Slam
Researchers at Purdue University and the U.S. National Nuclear
Security Administration’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
are perfecting simulations that show a nuclear weapon’s performance in precise molecular detail—a critical tool because international treaties forbid the detonation of nuclear test weapons,
Purdue said in a news release. The simulations—operated on
supercomputers containing thousands of processors—are needed
to more efficiently certify nuclear weapons, and may require
100,000 machines to accurately show molecular-scale reactions
taking place over milliseconds.
The U.S. Air Force still does not have an enterprise-wide grasp on
its virtual training and simulation efforts, congressional auditors
say. The armed service has reorganized offices and undertaken various initiatives to enhance existing virtual training cpabilities, but it
has not designated an entity to integrate these efforts or developed
an overarching strategy to align efforts and establish investment
priorities, according to the Government Accounting Office. This
fiscal year the Air Force cut live flying hours, which it estimates
will save $1.7 billion through fiscal 2016. Air Combat Command
says about 25 percent of its training requirements could be met
virtually.
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German company szenaris announced it has delivered its new
foldable long-span bridge training system—a virtual-reality system
based on existing hardware also developed by the company—to
the German Army. Troops who operate military engineer bridging
systems are trained in a virtual-reality simulation with networked
workplaces comprising several PCs each.
Major Program report
First Lot 3 F-35s Finally Transferred to Pentagon
Lockheed Martin has finally begun delivery of the latest lot of
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft to the Pentagon after a roughly
six-month delay. The Pentagon has accepted delivery of three
conventional-takeoff-and-landing variants and one short-takeoffand-vertical-landing version, says Marilyn Hewson, the incoming
chief operating officer of Lockheed Martin, F-35 prime contractor.
The low-rate-initial-production (LRIP) 3 aircraft were slated for
delivery by the end of 2012. All 17 of the stealthy fighters in the
lot—two F-35Bs for the U.K., one F-35A for the Netherlands,
seven F-35Bs for the U.S. Marine Corps—are off of the company’s
Fort Worth assembly line. The LRIP 3 aircraft had been awaiting
official acceptance via the official “DD250” process managed by
the Pentagon, says Vice Adm. David Venlet, the F-35 program
executive officer. He said in June that the paperwork was taking
longer than planned for the turnover process, which he says is “not
unnatural” early in the production process. The four new aircraft,
which include the Block 2A software, will join 12 already at Eglin
AFB, Florida, Hewson says. The Block 2A software will feature a
new multi-level security package.
U.S. Air Force Flies Alcohol-to-Jet Biofuel
The U.S. Air Force has completed the first flight of an aircraft
using alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) biofuel. The Fairchild A-10 completed
the test flight from Eglin AFB, Florida, on June 28 “without any
issues,” according to the service. The Air Force has approved fleetwide certification of ATJ fuel, following previous efforts involving
synthetic paraffinic kerosene fuel produced from coal and natural
Global Marketplace, from page 3
Global Military Spending Remained Flat in 2011
World military spending remained flat at $1.73 trillion in 2011
and failed to show any real increase for the first time since 1998.
This development, backed by the ongoing economic crisis affecting many Western nations, could signify a trend as governments
reduce the size of their defense budgets, the Stockholm-based
think tank SIPRI observes in its 2012 Yearbook. SIPRI warns
that while wars and conflicts are becoming smaller, shorter and
historically less frequent, the potential for escalation continues to
exist, particularly in the Middle East and Africa. The Arab Spring
demonstrates that new types of conflicts are emerging, according
to SIPRI.
Despite the decline in the strategic nuclear arsenals of the
gas and hydrotreated renewable jet fuel derived from vegetable oils
and animal fats.
Certification of the third feed stock-to-fuel pathway will help the
Air Force meet its stated goal of meeting half of its continental U.S. jet
fuel requirements from domestic sources of alternative fuels by 2016.
Fuel for the A-10 flight test was supplied by Gevo, which was awarded
a potential $600,000 Air Force Research Laboratory contract last year
to supply up to 11,000 gallons of ATJ fuel. Gevo uses a fermentation process to convert plant sugars and other biomass to isobutanol,
which is further processed to produce a drop-in replacement for JP-8
jet fuel. Fuel for the A-10 trial is derived from corn starch.
Foreign Deal
The House Foreign Affairs Committee has approved an authorization bill for the State Department, which has not been guided by
such a policy-setting law since 2002. The Fiscal Year 2013 Foreign
Relations Authorization Act “establishes important jurisdiction
and oversight authorities in the expanding fields of cybersecurity, counterterrorism communications, and arms-export controls,”
Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) said in an
opening statement for the bill’s markup session. She added: “It helps
American businesses by modifying Arms Export Control authorities
to reduce obstacles and streamline the process for exporting selected
equipment and parts. At the same time, it enhances U.S. security
by increasing safeguards against the transfer of U.S. technologies
to state sponsors of terrorism and countries subject to U.S. arms
embargoes.” Ranking Member Howard Berman (D-CA) laments
that funding levels in the bill are lower than what he thinks are
“proper to exert strong and effective international leadership.”
U.S. and Russia in 2011, the long-term modernization programs
underway in the eight primary nuclear countries suggest that
“nuclear weapons remain the currency of international status and
power,” said SIPRI researcher Shannon Kile. SIPRI estimates that
the U.S., Russia, France, China, India, Britain, Israel and Pakistan
combined held some 19,000 nuclear warheads in 2011, a decline
from 20,530 in 2010.
The reduction in the U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles was
mainly driven by the disposal of old and obsolete nuclear warheads, Kile said. The $1.73 trillion spent on the world’s militaries
in 2011 represents 2.5 percent of global gross domestic product,
equivalent to $249 per person. SIPRI attributes the flatness in
military spending growth to the new economic budget-reduction
policies adopted in most Western countries, but particularly in the
U.S. and Europe.
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Current News from page 4
U.K. Army Rebalances—Chops 23 Units
U.K. Secretary of State for Defense Phil Hammond has unveiled
the outcome of the Army 2020 review, which includes the reduction of personnel and 23 units by merger or amalgamation. “After
a decade of enduring operations, we needed to transform the Army
and build a balanced, capable and adaptable force ready to face
the future,” Hammond said speaking before Parliament’s House of
Commons. The U.K. Army will be reduced to 82,000 from today’s
102,000 and rely more heavily on its reserve soldiers. It will be
the smallest Army in 200 or so years, some said. The U.S. Army,
as well, will reduce in size to 490,000 from the current 547,000
active-duty soldiers. It also expects to rely more heavily in future
on its reserve forces. The goal for the U.K. Army of 2020 is similar
to that of the United States: a smaller, flexible, agile and adaptable
force, repositioned to face a multitude of threats of the future, in
an environment that is likely to be very different from the past
decade in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Industry Needs Shift in Approach for Program Management
Aerospace and defense industry program managers need to move
beyond the traditional fundamentals of delivering a product to
become more effective at meeting a changing environment with
tougher demands, according to an analysis released by a business
consulting firm. Pricewaterhouse Coopers said its study, based on
interviews with more than two dozen executives from 23 of the
world’s leading companies in the sector, showed program management is shifting past the norm of creating schedules, tracking
progress and pressuring suppliers for improved performance.
“The report identified key areas for program managers to
focus on success: getting systems integration right; solidifying
partnerships and joint ventures; agility and speed in business
processes; being world citizens in relationship management; and
applying a collaborative approach to supply chain management,”
Pricewaterhouse Coopers said.
The report said the aerospace and defense sectors are facing a
convergence of pressure to increasingly innovate while bringing
costs down, a distinction from the previous practice wherein one
or the other was acceptable to customer needs. The report echoed
a similar message from the U.S. Defense Department recently as
it faces reduced budgets.
Report: USCG 40 Percent Short of Cutters It Needs
The U.S. Coast Guard is operating with nowhere near the number
of cutters it needs to carry out its missions, a new study has found.
Even if the Coast Guard’s entire long-term shipbuilding plan
could be met in fiscal 2013, it would represent only 58 percent
of the cutters the service has said it needs, says a Congressional
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Research Service report released June 13, “Coast Guard Cutter
Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress.”
The Coast Guard’s shipbuilding plan calls for 91 cutters, made
up of national security, offshore patrol and fast response cutters.
But it would need 157 cutters to meet every mission, according to
service projections outlined in the report.
U.S. Military to Launch Website that Mirrors Reddit
If all goes according to plan, the U.S. military will soon have its
own analog of Reddit, the popular social site where user votes push
the best content and ideas to the top for all to see. Called Eureka,
the project is slated to go up in mid-July, joining a collection of
other Defense Department-only web tools that mirror popular
social media sites such as Wikipedia and YouTube. Eureka will be
a part of the Facebook analog known as milBook, though the site
has been designed to feel independent.
The idea is to host discussions that lead to revolutionary solutions—for example, improved training, better ways to secure
mobile devices, or any other problems that plague the military
and hamper efficiency. “Maybe someone on milBook has that
idea or can crack that nut,” said Tom Curran, product director
for milSuite, a part of the organization MilTech Solutions that is
associated with the Army’s Program Executive Office Command
Control Communications-Tactical. “It might be a dream, but it
might be something that nobody has considered yet.”
Eureka will be part of milSuite, a set of social networking tools
that live on the Defense Department’s NIPRNet, which contains
sensitive but unclassified information or content for official use only.
Strain-detecting Paint
A new type of paint made with carbon nanotubes at Rice
University, Houston, can help detect strain in buildings, bridges
and airplanes, according to a Rice news release. The scientists call
their mixture “strain paint” and hope it can help detect deformations in structures like airplane wings. Their study, published
online by the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters,
details a composite coating they invented that could be read by
a handheld infrared spectrometer. This method could tell where
a material is showing signs of deformation well before the effects
become visible, and without touching the structure. The researchers said this provides a big advantage over conventional strain
gauges, which must be physically connected to their read-out
devices. The nanotube-based system could measure strain at any
location and along any direction.
Pentagon Spending Cuts Require Better Tech Investments
Smarter strategies in spending, allocation and technology investCurrent News cont. on page 11
Current News from page 10
ments will be required to offset the coming reduction in U.S.
defense spending, a new study argues. “Strategy in Austerity,”
released June 21 by Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment
(CSBA), also argues for exploiting better military technologies,
solidly linked to new operations theories, which can allow the U.S.
to field a more effective force for the same cost.
Defense spending has gone down many times in the past, and
that history is repeating itself, as many studies from various sources
have pointed out. “Absent a direct, existential threat to the United
States comparable to that posed by the Soviet Union during the
Cold War,” the CSBA report says, “it is difficult to envision anything but a substantial erosion in funding for defense.”
CSBA examined two historical cases of major defense spending
shifts to look for strategic lessons learned: Britain at the start of the
20th century and the U.S. during 1969-80. Technology advances,
unlike smaller bureaucratic quests for spending efficiencies and cost
savings, have shown big payoffs. In the years leading up to World
War II, the report says, nations that emphasized building expensive
carriers over expensive battleships gained greater military advantage.
Stealth technology is another example, which has the bonus of
“cost-imposition,” a strategy CSBA analysts have emphasized in
previous studies. The B-1 bomber’s stealth forced the Soviet Union
to spend substantially more to guard its airspace than it would
have otherwise. Cost-imposition strategy means investments and
spending that disrupt adversaries’ plans and force them to spend
disproportionately more. Defense cannot be the only bill-payer to
address the fiscal problem, CSBA says. Moreover, failure to deal
with the deficit is itself a threat to national security, endangering
America’s ability to spend on unforeseen threats.
the Senate Armed Services Committee included a provision that
would require the Pentagon to consolidate its network activities to free up personnel who could be reassigned to U.S. Cyber
Command’s offensive missions.
NASA Releases Free “Mars Rover Landing” Video Game
Reprinted from Space News
NASA has released a new video game that celebrates the landing
of its huge Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars. The game,
called “Mars Rover Landing,” was produced in collaboration
with Microsoft and plays on the Xbox 360 system using the
Kinect motion sensor. It is available free of charge in Xbox Live
Marketplace and Kinect Central.
“Mars Rover Landing” allows players to take control of
Curiosity’s spacecraft as it streaks through the red planet’s atmostphere on a harrowing journey that mission engineers have dubbed
“seven minutes of terror.” At the end, a rocket-powered sky crane
lowers the rover to the martian surface on cables, then flies off to
crash-land intentionally a safe distance away.
Agency officials have said they hope Curiosity’s performance will
excite the American public and the nation’s politicians, perhaps
sparking a chain of events that will bring some money back to
NASA’s planetary science efforts. “Technology is making it possible
for the public to participate in exploration as it never has before,”
Michelle Viotti, Mars public engagement manager at NASA’s Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement. “Because Mars exploration is fundamentally a shared human endeavor, we want everyone
around the globe to have the most immersive experience possible.”
Future USAF Acquisition to Focus on Pacific
U.S. Regional Commanders Get New Cyber Muscle
Just as details of the covert American/Israeli collaboration in
the delivery of the famed Stuxnet bug surface, the U.S. Defense
Department has created a formal structure for cyber operations
that places increased capability in the hands of geographic combatant commanders. The structure, based on the outline drafted
by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in January, creates new cyber-focused
structures within each command that will organize the implementation of intelligence and cyber tools, both defensive and offensive. The transitional structure will be evaluated and potentially
improved within the year.
U.S. Short on Offensive Cyber Experts
While recent news stories herald the previously undisclosed
offensive cyber capabilities of the U.S., buried deep within recent
congressional legislation is an admission that the Pentagon is
actually understaffed when it comes to offensive cyber operations.
In its version of the Defense Authorization Bill for fiscal 2013,
The U.S. Air Force will return to its roots in the coming years,
tailoring its acquisition needs to meet the Pentagon’s Pacific-focused
military strategy by buying stealthy aircraft and systems. That means
the service will look to purchase systems and aircraft—particularly a
new bomber—that can fly without being noticed in denied airspace,
a reversal of Air Force operations over the past decade.
“I think right now what we’re trying to do is remind everybody
that we’ve got to start planning to build systems and to field
capabilities to fight in a contested environment again,” Lt. Gen.
Charles “CR” Davis, the Air Force military deputy for acquisition,
said during his first interview since becoming the service’s top
uniformed weapons buyer.
Several Air Force systems, from unmanned aircraft to sensors,
have played a major role in counterinsurgency operations over Iraq
and Afghanistan. However, many of them are easily detected on
radar, meaning they are vulnerable to surface-to-air missiles.
“We’ve become very good at fielding the conventional, nonhardened, non-threatened type of systems,” Davis said. “Now,
we’ve got to take a look at a different kind of mindset when we
start planning for how we’re going to tailor acquisition for that.”
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NTSA would like to recognize the following company members for their support throughout the year.
NTSA
Sustaining
Corporate
Members
AAI Corporation
ACME Worldwide Enterprises,
Inc.
ADAYANA Government Group
Advanced Interactive Systems
Advanced Simulation
Technology Inc. (ASTi)
Aechelon Technology, Inc.
AEgis Technologies Group, Inc.
Aero Simulation Inc.
Alion Science and Technology
American Systems Corporation
Analytical Graphics, Inc.
The ASTA Group, LLC
AT&T
BARCO Simulation
The Boeing Company
Bohemia Interactive
Simulations, Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton
CAE USA
Calytrix Technologies
Camber Corporation
Carley Corporation
Christie Digital Systems, USA
Cogent3D, Inc.
Cole Engineering Services, Inc.
Concurrent Computer
Corporation
Concurrent Technologies
Corporation
CSC
Cubic Defense Applications,
Inc.
DI-Guy (Boston Dynamics)
DiSTI
DRC
Dynamic Animation Sytems
Elbit Systems, Ltd.
Engineering & Computer
Simulations (ECS)
Engineering Support Personnel
Inc.
Environmental Tectonics
Corporation
Equipe Simulation
FAAC
Fidelity Technologies
Corporation
FlightSafety International
General Dynamics
Havok
ICF International
Indra Systems, Inc.
Industrial Smoke & Mirrors
Intelligent Decisions, Inc.
Israel Aerospace Industries,
Ltd. (IAI)
JHT, Inc.
JVC U.S.A.
Kongsberg Maritime Simulation,
Inc.
L-3 Communications Link
Simulation and Training
L-3 MPRI
Laser Shot, Inc.
Lockheed Martin Global
Training and Logistics
LSI, Inc.
MASA Group
Meggitt Training Systems
MetaVR
Moog, Inc.
MYMIC, LLC
Newport News Shipbuilding
nGRAIN
Northrop Grumman
Corporation
OPINICUS Corporation
Paltech, Inc.
Parsons
PLEXSYS Interface Products Inc.
Presagis
projectiondesign
QinetiQ North America
Quantum3D, Inc.
Raydon Corporation
Raytheon Company
Rockwell Collins Simulation &
Training Solutions
RUAG Defence
SAAB
SAIC
Serco, Inc.
SimiGon Ltd.
Sony Electronics, Inc.
The Tatitlek Corporation
Thales
TSM Corporation
URS
VDC Display Systems
Veraxx Engineering Corporation
VirTra Systems
VMASC (Virginia Modeling,
Analysis and Simulation
Center)
VT MÄK
Wegmann USA, Inc. Training
and Simulation
WILL Interactive
WITTENSTEIN Aerospace &
Simulation, Inc.
Zedasoft, Inc.
NTSA
Regular
Corporate
Members
3D Perception
4C Strategies
Adacel Systems, Inc.
AgustaWestland
Alelo
Allied Container Systems, Inc.
Alpha USA
Atlantis Cyberspace, Inc.
AVT Simulation
Bihrle Applied Research, Inc.
Bosch Rexroth BV
BreakAway, Ltd.
C2 Technologies, Inc.
Chemring Ordnance
CMLabs Simulations, Inc.
Computer Comforts, Inc.
Control Products Corporation
Corsair Engineering
Cranfield Aerospace Ltd.
Crytek GmbH
CymSTAR, LLC
Delex Systems, Inc.
Digital Projection, Inc.
DRS Training & Control
Systems, LLC
E2M Technologies
eMDee Technology
Extron Electronics
Georgia Tech Research Institute
IData Visual Systems
Immersive Display Solutions
InterSense, Inc.
J.F. Taylor, Inc.
JRL Ventures (Marine Concepts)
JRM Technologies, Inc.
Kentucky Trailer Technologies
Kognito Interactive
Military Wraps
Motion Analysis Corporation
National Aerospace Laboratory
NLR
National Center for Simulation
Natural Point
The O’Gara Group
Photo Etch
Pitch Technologies AB
Power Innovations International
Pulau Corporation
Q4 Services, LLC
Rave Computer Association, Inc.
RGB Spectrum
RPA Electronic Solutions, Inc.
RSI Visual Systems
Safety Training Systems, Inc.
SDS International
SIMMersion, LLC
SimPhonics, Inc.
SMART Technologies, Inc.
Soar Technology, Inc.
Sonalysts Inc.
Southwest Research Institute
SRI International
Stirling Dynamics Ltd.
Stottler Henke Associates, Inc.
Survival Systems USA
SYMVIONICS, Inc.
Sytronics, Inc.
TEAL Electronics Corporation
Tec-Masters, Inc.
Technical and Project
Engineering, LLC (TAPE)
Ternion Corporation
TerraSim Inc.
Thermodyne Cases
United Electronic Industries,
Inc. (UEI)
Vcom3D, Inc.
VSD, LLC
Zel Technologies, LLC
NTSA
Associate
Corporate
Members
Accenture
Advanced Brain Monitoring
Apex Performance, Inc.
Aptima, Inc.
ATSIM, Inc.
B-Design 3D, Ltd.
Binghamton University
BNH Expert Software, Inc.
BSC Partners, LLC
Buck Leahy Consulting &
Communications, LLC
Columbus Technologies and
Services, Inc.
Craftsmen Industries
Craig Technologies, Inc.
Crawford Thomas
Design Interactive, Inc.
e-Tech Solutions Corp.
Global Business Solutions, Inc.
(GBSI)
Heartwood, Inc.
HotSeat Chassis, Inc.
Inertial Labs, Inc.
Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Intevac, Inc.
KMS Solutions, LLC
Lone Star Aerospace
LRK Associates
Lumir Research Institute, Inc.
MBDi
MDG Fog Generators, Ltd.
Military Training Technology
Nakuuruq Solutions, LLC
Night Readiness, LLC
NVIS, Inc.
Osen-Hunter Group, LLC
Precision Lightworks
Promethean
ProModel
Riptide Software, Inc.
Sankhya Infotech Ltd.
Seay Business Solutions, LLC
SensoryCo
Silverback7
Simulation Systems and
Applications Inc.
Six Degrees of Simulation, Inc.
TIE Today, Inc.
Tier 1 Performance Solutions
University of Central Florida,
Institute for Simulation and
Training
vectorCSP
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