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Shipbuilding
April 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: Accelerated Training Program Prepares Students for Shipbuilding Careers
By Allyson ParkDANVILLE, Virginia — As the shipbuilding and submarine industrial bases struggle to hire and retain younger workers, the Navy is funding a program to boost their numbers. The Accelerated Training in Defense Manufacturing, or ATDM ... -
Training and Simulation
March 2025
IT2EC NEWS: RAF Touts Success of Synthetic Trainer for New, Old Aircraft
Senior U.K. Royal Air Force officers touted the success of the service’s Gladiator live and synthetic training system a little over two years after it reached initial operating capability. -
Global Defense Market
March 2025
IT2EC NEWS: NATO Kicks Off Campaign to Simulate Hypersonic Tech
NATO is in the begging stages of a campaign to create simulations that can ultimately help its member nations to defend against and use hypersonic interceptors. -
Emerging Technologies
February 2025
AI Company Develops YouTube for Navy Training Platform
By Allyson ParkArtificial intelligence company MARi recently introduced a video training platform that brings AI-enhanced maintenance and repair tutorials to Navy sailors on demand. -
Industrial Base
February 2025
JUST IN: Defense Industrial Base Continues to Face Headwinds, NDIA Report Says
The defense industrial base — already strained by lack of funding and a shifting security environment —will also have the political and policy trends of a new administration to contend with, an annual report released Feb. 26 by the National Defense Industrial Association stated. -
Training and Simulation
February 2025
Digital Frankenstein: Building the Perfect Human Simulation For Military
The key to building a digital human isn’t necessarily in its parts, but in a place to piece them together, and one North Carolina-based biomedical company has created a framework that can receive data from both open-source and proprietary technologies to create a real-time, multi-parameterized human digital twin. -
Marine Corps News
January 2025
Marines Reexamining Simulated Training For Young Warfighters
By Allyson ParkThe Marine Corps is modernizing its simulated training systems to ensure that young Marines are prepared for the continuously evolving battlefield. -
Training and Simulation
January 2025
Air Force, Navy Aircraft Simulator Facility Stretching Its Wings
The government-owned Joint Simulation Environment — a facility used by the Air Force and Navy to conduct high-fidelity training — has become so popular demand has outgrown its Maryland headquarters, and an expansion is in the works. -
International
January 2025
NATO Allies Canada, U.S. Look North as Arctic’s Security Challenges Grow
Global rivalries are heating up in the cold Arctic as Russia and China boost their presence in the region, causing concern within NATO nations in the alliance’s northern flank. -
Army News
January 2025
Army Building Ecosystem to Train, Verify AI Models
The Army is building an environment in which it can verify the functionality of artificial intelligence and machine learning models before they are deployed.