⊲ Saab ⊳ The U.S. Army has awarded Saab a $22.4 million order under the BEST MAC contract to supply Vehicle Tactical Engagement Simulation System (VTESS) Base Kits. Managed by the Army's Capability...
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Immersive Collaboration Enhances Factory Planning
⊲ The Manufacturer ⊳ Glass maker Pilkington UK, part of the NSG Group, is using immersive virtual reality to reshape how its engineering teams design, test and validate manufacturing systems. At...
Air Force Trials Treadmill-Based Trainer
⊲ VR.org ⊳ Virtuix, maker of omnidirectional VR treadmills, has secured a US Air Force AFWERX SBIR Phase I award for its Virtual Terrain Walk platform, a feasibility study rather than a fielded...
AI and Simulation Meet on Your Desk
⊲ NVIDIA ⊳ NVIDIA and Microsoft have unveiled RTX Spark, a superchip designed to shift Windows PCs from simple tools to digital teammates capable of assisting with work, content creation and...
Agentic AI Adversaries for Marine Training
⊲ Halldale ⊳ The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded Orlando-based XRT a $5.1 million contract to develop an AI-driven crew gunnery mission rehearsal prototype trainer for the Amphibious Combat Vehicle....
ITEC Showcases Military Training Innovations
⊲ Royal Aeronautical Society ⊳ Tim Robinson reports on the ITEC 2026 event, held in London, identifying key trends including the use of mixed reality for immersive training, the resurgence of...
Simulation & Digital Twins Serve Different Purposes
⊲ The Robot Report ⊳ The article examines how simulation and digital twins serve different roles in virtual manufacturing. Simulation is presented as a tool for testing scenarios, layouts and...
Accessible Flight Simulator On Tour
⊲ Royal Aeronautical Society ⊳ The Falcon 2 programme's mobile full-motion flight simulator has been created to give young people, including those with special educational needs and disabilities,...
Simulation + XR for Urgent Drone Training
⊲ Varjo ⊳ Juny, a Uruguayan combat veteran wounded three times by FPV drones while serving with Ukrainian Special Forces, now works with Applied Virtual Simulation on the Horizon Guardian...
CAE Urges Pilot Training Overhaul
⊲ CAE ⊳ CAE's 2026 Blueprint argues that allied defence forces must overhaul pilot training to meet a more volatile geopolitical era. Legacy fixed-curriculum programmes are ill-suited to Generation...
Digital Twins Reach the Battlefield
⊲ Medium ⊳ David Burden explores how digital twins are moving beyond industrial systems into military operations, creating detailed battlefield models that combine platforms, infrastructure and...
Simulators Support More Car Testing in Less Time
⊲ Ford From the Road ⊳ Ford's Product Development Simulator, launched in 2020 in Dearborn USA, allows engineers to run ten times more tests in a tenth of the time compared to real-world testing....