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Raytheon debuts portable V-22 virtual reality trainer

Air December 6, 2019

Raytheon has debuted a virtual reality version of its portable V-22 trainer at I/ITSEC, the modeling, simulation and training event. Aircraft Functional V-22 Trainer-Virtual Reality is a fully immersive system that provides hyper-realistic training across all experience levels, including early-career aviation maintenance students and those engaged in continuing education. “The system is ...

General Dynamics Mission Systems wins deal for next-gen satellite communications system

Air December 6, 2019

General Dynamics Mission Systems has announced that it has been awarded a cost-plus-award-fee and firm-fixed-price indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity sole-source contract worth $731.8 million for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) ground system sustainment. MUOS is a next-generation satellite communications system that provides secure voice and data communications for US forces worldwide. ...

Northrop Grumman, MBDA and Saab demonstrate IBCS ability

Air December 6, 2019

Northrop Grumman, MBDA and Saab have successfully completed a joint, collaborative effort to demonstrate the ability to integrate MBDA’s Common Anti-air Modular Missile (CAMM) family and Saab’s Giraffe radar system family into Northrop Grumman’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS). CAMM was the first non-US missile system to ...

Global outreach: How international space research is inspiring collaboration

Air December 4, 2019

Space is an international domain that any government or enterprise is able to access. The space race characterised early advancements in the sector and arguably was responsible for the moon landing and Sputnik. Space still remains a domain for international rivalry and potential future battlegrounds, but in modern times it ...