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National Defense December 2013 Valerie Insinna |
LCS Training Strategy Mixes Education and Video Games Earlier this year, Cubic Advanced Learning Solutions was awarded $300 million worth of contracts to provide video game-style training to sailors for the littoral combat ship crews. |
National Defense December 2013 Dan Parsons |
Debate Continues Over Role of Simulators in UAS Pilot Training There still is no agreed upon method of training new UAS pilots -- and keeping seasoned operators proficient -- for future conflicts where U.S. drones will be flying in contested airspace. |
National Defense December 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Special Operators to Test Digital Night Vision Goggles Troops currently rely on analog night vision goggles that use image intensifier tubes to amplify existing light, but new digital goggles and cameras are finally making their way into the hands of special operators and pilots. |
National Defense December 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Cutting Costs a Top Goal for Government Network Managers Information technology leaders in federal and local government view budget constraints as an even bigger threat to infrastructure than cyber-attacks, according to a Cisco-sponsored survey conducted in September. |
National Defense December 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Air National Guard Considers Replacing Manuals With Tablets The Air National Guard is studying whether pilots may be able to replace paper copies of reference manuals with electronic versions stored on a tablet. |
National Defense December 2013 Dan Parsons |
Future of Rapid Equipping Force Remains in Doubt In Afghanistan, U.S. troops wanted robots to search caves where fighters were hiding. The Rapid Equipping Force found a commercial robot called the PackBot, outfitted it with a camera and sent it downrange in a matter of weeks. |
National Defense December 2013 Dan Parsons |
New Materials Offer Improved Armor Technology is progressing to where polymers and plastics can provide equal or better protection than metals or materials like Kevlar at a fraction of the weight, said Shitij Chabba, global life protection director for DSM Dyneema. |
National Defense December 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Army, Marine Corps Look for Better Data on Simulator Effectiveness Both services need to establish metrics to calculate just how effective their simulators are. Furthermore, they need a more comprehensive method to compare the costs of live and virtual training. |
National Defense December 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Simulation Industry Lays Groundwork for Whatever Challenges Come Next The Army's program executive office for simulation, training and instrumentation and programmers are already looking at how to adapt to new areas of operation and conflicts that may be different from the past. |
AskMen.com November 12, 2013 |
At What Point Does Perception Of Weakness Become Reality? While George W. Bush earned plenty of derision when he famously declared himself to be "the decider," the American public also hasn't liked Obama looking like anything but. |
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