⊲ Military AI ⊳ US firm Syntec Optics has secured new orders for optical components supporting AI-enabled military augmented reality headsets that use eye tracking to identify where soldiers are...
Category: Military & Security
Potential Civil-Military AR Crossover
⊲ Road to VR ⊳ Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril and Oculus, has revealed a prototype pair of compact augmented reality glasses believed to be under development at Anduril, claiming they deliver...
HLA Bridge to Learning Ecosystems
⊲ Yet Analytics ⊳ Yet Analytics, a leader in the Experience API (xAPI), Learning Record Store (LRS) technology, has released Federate xAPI, an open source tool that lets High Level Architecture...
Daily 3D Maps for Uncrewed System Navigation
⊲ Space Daily ⊳ Vantor, the Earth observation company formerly known as Maxar, has launched WorldView 3D, a service producing daily updated three dimensional maps of Earth accurate to 15...
Fifteen Year £2 Billion Training Contract
⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ Omnia Training, a Raytheon UK-led consortium including Capita, Cervus, Rheinmetall UK, and Skyral, has secured a £2bn, 15-year contract from the UK Ministry of Defence to deliver...
Rifle Becomes New Drone Controller
⊲ Military.com ⊳ The US-based startup PYRRHUS Aeronautics has developed LADRS, a rifle mounted device that lets soldiers control drones through weapon movement rather than a handheld joystick or...
Korean Simulator Supports Emergency Flight Practice
⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ The Republic of Korea Army has fielded a new KUH-1 'Surion' flight training simulator. Developed by Korea Aerospace Industries under a December 2023 contract, the simulator...
“Sim Pods” for British Army Drone Training
⊲ Halldale Group ⊳ Skua Defence Limited and UFDS EU have partnered to bring Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator, a Ukraine-developed UAS training system, to UK and allied forces. UFDS has trained more...
Battlefield Vision Platform Unveiled
⊲ Distance Technologies ⊳ Helsinki-based deep-tech startup Distance Technologies has launched Acuity, a visual intelligence platform built on its new Acuity OS, designed to connect sensors, battle...
AI-Powered Military Training Analytics Launched
⊲ Thales Group ⊳ Thales has launched its Gladiator Training Data Analytics AI-powered platform that converts raw land training exercise data into structured intelligence for After Action Reviews....
Naval Dome Replicates Drone Attacks
⊲ Defense Express ⊳ The French Navy is using a 360-degree projection dome simulator to train ship crews against mass drone and unmanned surface vessel attacks. Armed with Minigun, M2 Browning and...
XR Training Strengthens Ukrainian Tank Crews
⊲ Varjo ⊳ Finnish XR manufacturer Varjo and Norwegian simulation firm Fynd Reality are supplying 39 extended reality training systems to the Ukrainian Armed Forces through Norway's Nansen...