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VirTra Systems Receives International Simulator Order
Tuesday January 22, 8:15 am ET
HOUSTON, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VirTra Systems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VTSI - News). Major General Perry V. Dalby (USA-Retired), VirTra Systems' chief executive officer, today announced the receipt of an IVR® 360 totally immersive small arms training simulator order from a prominent South American customer.
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The completely immersive small arms simulator, VirTra Systems' most advanced product, features six high-definition screens, is deployable world-wide, and fully immerses trainees in a true-to-life 360-degree environment. Along with the Company's patent-pending Hybrid-CGI(TM) scenario engine, the simulator order specifies original high-definition training courseware in judgmental use-of-force, pistol qualification, automatic-rifle qualification (AFQC), and tactical rifle qualification (TRQC).
The system is to be used for South American law enforcement training programs including advanced force-option, less-lethal force option, and a variety of marksmanship courses.
Major General Dalby commented, "I am extremely pleased VirTra Systems continues to win tenders over other available systems on the market and expand its international footprint. I believe this sale to be quite significant, as it opens up an entirely new sales frontier, providing valuable exposure of our 'flagship' IVR small arms simulation product to the southern hemisphere of the Americas."
About VirTra Systems
Utilizing patented technology, VirTra Systems sells situational awareness firearms training systems to military agencies such as the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Department of Defense, and to national and international law enforcement agencies. The company also produces multisensory promotional virtual reality systems and 3-D theaters for clients such as General Motors, Pennzoil, and the U.S. Army and Navy. For more information, visit http://www.virtra.com.
One of our most important responsibilities is to communicate with shareholders in an open and direct manner. Comments are based on current management expectations, and are considered "forward-looking statements," generally preceded by words such as "plans," "expects," "believes," "anticipates," or "intends." We cannot promise future returns. Our statements reflect our best judgment at the time they are issued, and we disclaim any obligation to update or alter forward-looking statements as the result of new information or future events. VirTra Systems urges investors to review the risks and uncertainties contained within its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Dec 2007; Threats of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil are prompting law enforcement agencies and first responders to turn to military-grade training facilities.
Law enforcement officials are requesting training for urban combat so that units can better respond to events such as school shootings. The April massacre at Virginia Tech proved that there is a need for more effective response capabilities, officials said.
"That's certainly more militaristic than the American public has had in mind for the last few decades," said Tim Shook, director of marketing for General Dynamics Information Technology's homeland security and law enforcement division.
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Once the exclusive domain of the Pentagon's forces, instrumented urban warfare trainers are attracting the attention of civilian customers, including state and local law enforcement agencies, fire and rescue crews.
Housed inside shipping containers, mobile tactical trainers provide targets, sounds, smells and other special effects to produce realistic scenarios for trainees. Cameras and microphones track and record teams as they proceed through the training.
The trainers can be configured to replicate bar rooms, hotel foyers and other civilian locales, said Shook, a bomb technician and retired agent for the North Carolina Bureau of Investigation. They can reproduce the distinctive smells encountered by first responders, such as those associated with methamphetamine labs.
First responder agencies, unlike the Defense Department, do not have a large treasure chest of funds to spend on high-end training technologies. General Dynamics has initiated a program to help agencies write requests for grants and will also allow agencies to rent its system, said Fred Pickens, senior director for business development.
Before units are deployed to Iraq, they undergo "close quarter" combat training that is designed to prepare them for the rigors of urban warfare. But after completing their tours, troops have complained that current training facilities fall short in replicating the challenges of fighting in large cities.
Such demands have spurred companies in the training industry to modify the equipment and make it more relevant to troops' needs.
In recent years, they have managed to package urban training systems in shipping containers that can be quickly transported, configured, stacked and decorated to look like city dwellings. Along with moveable walls, fixtures and special effects equipment to test troops' abilities, these mobile trainers also are equipped with cameras, microphones, speakers and computers to capture the experience for post-training evaluations.
Industry is trying to insert the latest instrumentation into those training systems to create realistic urban conditions, said Fred Pickens, senior director for business development at General Dynamics Information Technology.
The company developed a mobile MOUT (military operations in urban terrain) training system with simulated human targets that swing out from around corners or pop up from sitting positions to challenge trainees' firing techniques. In response to troops' requests, the targets were programmed to fall down only after they had taken multiple hits--a pattern that troops have encountered with insurgents in Iraq, said Pickens.
Additionally, the appearance of the targets have been enhanced so that troops can learn to discriminate them when using night vision goggles and other optics, said Jerry Tussing, vice president and general manager for simulation, training and instrumentation solutions.
In Iraq, troops discovered that gaining access to rooftops typically required climbing ladders that are found behind the houses. At the top, there was usually a trap door.
"A lot of Marines got killed trying to climb up those ladders only to find an insurgent at the top with a machine gun," said Dick Coltman, vice president for integrated instrumentation. As a result, trap doors are routinely included as part of the configuration of the mobile MOUT.
In training exercises, when troops breach the door to a mobile MOUT, their senses are immediately assaulted by an assortment of realistic sounds and smells, said Pickens, a retired Army colonel.
"The stink of the battlefield is something that's hard to get used to," he said. Whether it's raw sewage, blood, or gunpowder, "there's a whole host of smells on the battlefield. And you want them to be exposed to that in training, so that when they do it for real, they're not shocked by the smell or the sight or the sounds, and they're able to immediately go into combat without losing effectiveness."
Nice finds tonight TEEROY
maybe we will see VIRTRA set up an Orlando office.
IBOX Fire arms Mobile training unit looks great Greg.NICE!
Its going to really look good dressed out in ARMY CAMO '-)
What a great way to show off VIRTRAS Technology at trade shows,
hit the road with a decked out tractor trailer rig with VIRTRA SYSTEMS FIRE ARM SIMULATORS on the trailer...get to the show and we are all set up for everyone to have a 'hands on' look at the system.
I bet all the big name fire arm manufactures would love to have their own system mobile trailers too for trade shows and gun shows...
Another link to VTSI Mobile trailer
www.news.com/8300-10784_3-7-0.html?keyword=live+fire+simulator - 44k -
A look at the trailer
www.virtualworldlets.net/Archive/IndividualNews.php?News=2448 - 38k -
One thing is for sure,
this company is involved in an industry whos products are needed world wide more than ever before,vertra management
needs to continue to vigorously market its product line,
I think the TI TRAINING relationship will continue to
grow some very impressive revenues for us in 2008,and
also hope virtra can create future partners to help in
marketing their product line.2008 could be huge here,the live fire /simulated fire mobile trailer looks,and sounds to be
what the world wants.That along with the rest of virtras product line,the STOC II contract possibilities,Gen.Dalbys connections IMVHO puts this company one step closer to the "ABOUT TO HAVE ITS DAY IN THE SUN"
catigory.I hope that we will be getting some news soon
on many fronts.
Mexico crime continues to surge
By Jay Root | McClatchy Newspapers
Virtra should continue to see increased business from Mexico in 2008,gettin ugly down there.
Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2007 email | print tool tool
MEXICO CITY — Federal crimes such as gangland-style murders and kidnappings reached record levels in Mexico during the first half of the year, a new report from Mexico's Congress found, making Mexico one of the world's most dangerous countries.
One analyst who worked on the report said Mexico's murder rate now tops all others in the Western Hemisphere.
"In a global context, we suffer from more homicides, that is to say, violent deaths, than any other region in the world except for certain regions on the African continent,'' said Eduardo Rojas, who helped put together the crime report at the Center for Social and Public Opinion Studies, a research arm of the Mexico's Chamber of Deputies.
The report, made public last week, was a setback for Mexican President Felipe Calderon, whose tough new war on drug trafficking has sent thousands of Mexican Army troops into the countryside and a record number of drug suspects to the United States for trial.
The report said that major federal crimes, which include homicides, kidnappings and arms trafficking, rose 25 percent in the first half of 2007 over the same period last year. In 2006, the same crimes rose 22 percent over the previous year.
Gangland style executions have risen 155 percent since 2001, according to the congressional report.
Crime has been on the rise in Mexico throughout the last decade as drug cartels battle for control of lucrative smuggling routes. But the new findings come at a politically charged time for the Calderon administration, which is also confronting a new threat from an old foe — the shadowy Popular Revolutionary Army or EPR, its Spanish acronym.
EPR's coordinated bombings of natural gas pipelines, first in July and then in September, have exposed government intelligence failures and the vulnerability of the petroleum infrastructure in Mexico, the second largest oil exporter to the United States.
"The reality is the government has been pursuing the top EPR leaders for at least five years, and they haven't been able to catch them,'' said Mexican political commentator Raymundo Riva Palacio.
The attacks have been unexpectedly sophisticated. The September blasts caused millions of dollars in economic losses when the state-owned oil company, Pemex, had to cut off gas supplies to thousands of businesses, including major multi-national companies such as Grupo Modelo, the makers of Corona beer, and Vitro, the largest glassmaker in the world.
"These people that are placing these devices know something about the flow of the oil and gas,'' said one American official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly. "They didn't just place it randomly in the middle of the valve system.''
Experts believe the EPR, a Marxist group that traces its origins to the armed guerilla movements of the 1970s, finances its activities with ransom from kidnapped businessmen. The guerillas say the attacks will continue until authorities release two comrades who disappeared in Oaxaca in May; state and federal officials say they're not in government custody.
The group's reach appears to be countrywide. The first blasts struck multiple locations in central Mexico. The second set hit coastal Veracruz. On Wednesday, security was beefed up around pipelines in northern Chihuahua state after EPR graffiti was discovered on installations there.
Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora recently told reporters that the guerrilla bombings "distract" authorities from their battle against organized crime.
Calderon, who took office in December after a contentious election that saw him win with less than a third of the vote, had vowed to curb Mexico's drug violence.
In January, he ordered a huge military and legal offensive, sending more than 20,000 soldiers to hot spots throughout the country and dropping Mexico's traditional hesitancy to send accused drug traffickers to face charges in the United States. By August his administration had extradited a record 64 accused drug traffickers.
The offensive won praise from the Bush administration and Mexicans, but gangland-style executions have surged, with the report counting 1,588 in the first half of 2007. For the full year of 2001, there were 1,080 such crimes, the report said.
Mexico's violence is often spectacular and lurid, with tales of street shootouts, decapitations and bomb blasts filling Mexico's news pages and airwaves. No place is immune, including the buildings of the country's news outlets.
In May a severed head wrapped in newspaper was left in a cooler outside the office of Tabasco Hoy in Villahermosa, where drug violence is on the rise. Grenades have been tossed into newsrooms from Cancun to Nuevo Laredo in the past 18 months. The Paris-based organization Reporters Without Borders reported that Mexico was the most dangerous country for journalists in 2006, after Iraq.
On May 14, suspected drug traffickers on motorcycles gunned down Jose Nemesio Lugo, a senior federal investigator in charge of gathering intelligence on drug traffickers, in Mexico City's upscale Coyoacan neighborhood. Two days later in Sonora state, about 20 miles south of Arizona, a five-hour shootout between heavily armed commandos and police left 20 people dead.
The bloodbath continued unabated this month, with the assassinations of two state police chiefs. The first was Jaime Flores of San Luis Potosi state, shot in the head multiple times in front of his wife on Sept. 13. Then on Wednesday came news that Marcos Manuel Souberville, the state police chief in Hidalgo, had fallen in a hail of bullets during an afternoon drive-by shooting.
Many prominent Mexicans have sought refuge in the United States, but that is no guarantee of safety. Mario Espinoza Lobato, a businessman and city councilman from Ciudad Acuna, was gunned down Wednesday at his home in neighboring Del Rio, Texas, authorities said. He was an outspoken critic of the criminal gangs that he said had tried to kidnap him.
Kidnapping is a multi-million dollar industry in Mexico. The report from Congress indicates there are about 4,500 kidnappings a year, about a third of which are reported. Greg Bangs, head of the kidnapping and ransom unit at the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, said Mexico has rocketed past Colombia to become the world's ransom capital.
"Mexico is now very definitely No. 1 in the world in terms of the numbers of kidnappings,'' Bangs said. "Kidnappers are indicating how serous they are by sending parts of ears and noses and fingers and various bodily parts ... they didn't used to do that so much, but that seems to be more prevalent.''
Top officials here continue to insist their efforts are paying off even if the numbers don't show it. At a news conference last week, Medina, the attorney general, told reporters "there is a decrease" in organized crime murders.
But then Medina provided figures for "violent executions" in January and February — 175 and 208, respectively.
"They're going down?'' one reporter asked.
"I wish they were lower than last year,'' Medina responded. "But in the first months of this year there were more than in the same period last year.''
Congressman Juan Francisco Rivera, chairman of the Chamber of Deputies Committee on Security, expressed confidence in the government's crime-fighting campaign. He said pointedly that Americans should not be so quick to judge Mexico.
He described the country's violent crime wave as temporary, while in "cities like Detroit, Houston or Dallas, it has become a permanent thing.'' Rivera also called on U.S. authorities to do more to stop illicit firearms exports.
"That's what is killing us,'' Rivera said. "I think if look at the number of arrests, the number of drug seizures, the number of policemen who have risked their lives and who have been killed, I think it shows that our Army and local police forces are engaged in a frontal battle.''
domen,sorry that was me asking about the 4g and rcoil
i was not sure how new the 'new' was and thought it may have been what was causing the alert.
Being new here im not sure how new this is
but if you google "virtra" second column down =product video*NEW*
B17 could it be the IVR4G or the 4G wireless tetherless recoil vedios??
Alright General ,the troops are ready for NEWS!
Now that TI has been awarded the
GSA Schedule 70 FAS-IT program contract. States like Oregon who have just passed deadly force legislation state wide could place very large orders of the TI TRAININGG LABS at very good prices.
The contract
award number GS-35F-0127U, allows for the purchase of all items offered by Ti
Training Corp at the special discounted rate listed on the GSA Schedule 70. The contract
also outlines special volume discounts that were negotiated with GSA that offer a
substantial savings over the Ti Training Law Enforcement list price.
HOUSTON, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VirTra Systems, Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: VTSI). Major General Perry V. Dalby (USA-Retired), VirTraSystems' chief executive officer, today announced receipt of six more smallarms training simulator orders from its partner, Ti Training Corp, inEnglewood, Colorado.
Recent Ti Training orders for our small arms training simulators, worth anestimated $300,000 and marketed under the brand name Training Lab(TM), came from almost every market segment, including federal agencies, state agencies,municipal and county governments, and also a state funded mass transit authority.
"We continue to be pleased with our partnership with Ti Training,"commented Major General Dalby. "Ti Training's expert sales force is highlyeffective marketing these types of systems to domestic law enforcement andlocal government entities.
"We currently have a backlog of another 25 of these firearms simulators,and expect to soon begin delivering those to both the Transportation SecurityAdministration in the Department of Homeland Security, and a European customer.
"In addition, VirTra Systems' continues its simulation innovation and this week is demonstrating its new 3-D stereoscopic tactile infantry training technology, that facilitates advanced real-time interaction with warfare simulation content, at this year's Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation& Education Conference (I/ITSEC), in Orlando, Florida.
"We encourage all of our customers to experience this new technology byvisiting our display at Christie Projector's booth, #3339, this week in the Orange County Convention Center," Major General Dalby concluded.
About VirTra Systems
Utilizing patented technology, VirTra Systems sells situational awarenessfirearms training systems to military agencies such as the U.S. Army, Navy,Air Force, Marines, and Department of Defense, and to national andinternational law enforcement agencies. The company also producesmultisensory promotional virtual reality systems and 3-D theaters for clientssuch as General Motors, Pennzoil, Red Baron(TM) Pizza, and the U.S. Army. Formore information, visit www.virtra.com. Continued...
Englewood Colorado- December 10, 2007 - Ti Training Corp, a supplier of interactive
training products and services to the law enforcement and public safety markets today
announced the award of the GSA Schedule 70 FAS-IT program contract. The contract
award number GS-35F-0127U, allows for the purchase of all items offered by Ti
Training Corp at the special discounted rate listed on the GSA Schedule 70. The contract
also outlines special volume discounts that were negotiated with GSA that offer a
substantial savings over the Ti Training Law Enforcement list price.
“The requirements set forth by the GSA to obtain a contract are very strict” stated Greg
Otte President of Ti Training. “Every aspect of your company operations are investigated
and verified. The GSA contract award is like a letter of approval from the Federal
Government, it announces that you have arrived as a company”.
“One out of every two Federal prospects asks if we have a GSA contract number” stated
Ned Partridge, National Sales Manager for Ti Training. “With the GSA contract, we can
start immediately to talk about training solutions for their agency, knowing that the way
for purchasing has been cleared”.
Ti Training expects to have an electronic version of their catalog available on the GSA
Advantage web site within the next 90 days. Until then, agencies can find Ti Training’s
products and services outlined on the company website at www.Titraining.com
About Ti Training Corp
Ti Training Corp, USA, an employee owned company , is a provider of training
products, services and programs with it’s focus on interactive digital video training
technology. Reaching law enforcement and public safety agencies throughout North
America, Ti’s team of industry veterans provide up to the minute technology, tactics and
teaching to Federal, State and Local law enforcement, public safety, security and
homeland defense agencies. Most recognized for the innovative creation of the “Training
Table”, a library of training content authored by the most respected names in the training
industry. For more information about Ti Training Corp, please visit the company’s web
site at: www.titraining.com
Media Contact
Joe Mason
303-414-3555, x202
joe@titraining.com
TI TRAINING up coming trade shows
SHOT Show Feb 2 – 5, 2008 Las Vegas, NV
TREXPO West Feb 19 – 21, 2008 Long Beach, CA
ILEETA April 1 - 5, 2008 Chicago, IL
GovSec April 23 – 24 Washington DC
IALEFI May 4 – 9, 2008 Reno, NV
NOBLE July 25 – 30, 2008 Manhattan, NY
TREXPO East Aug. 26 – 29, 2008 Chantilly, VA
IACP Nov 8 – 12, 2008 San Diego, CA
Anyone have a guess about the shoot,what it may be for?
Great SF! wonder where California stands,we all know the left coast affect ,it all starts out there and roles east.It could really turn into a very lucrative rev producer for Virtra.
Kind of getting off the thread here for a second,but there is something else I thing VirTra
is well positioned to see a huge market in is going to be the advancement of the home entertainment sector ,its huge and growing,and while its come a long way from 'pong' I think the 3d total submersion 360 degree will be the next big step up for that industry.Heres news today from yahoo on just how big it is as it stands now.One thing about 'boy toys' most want the biggest and the best,cost is usually no object.A virtra 3d system in the play room would be to kooooool.
Fri Jan 18, 8:17 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - US video game industry sales rocketed to a record high 17.9 billion dollars in 2007, with Nintendo reigning as champion of the console battle with Microsoft and Sony, according to research group NPD.
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US sales of video game consoles, software and accessories rose "an astounding" 43 percent, with each category reaching a new "personal best," NPD reported.
Nintendo DS handheld game devices and Wii consoles were the top hardware sellers, ranking first and second respectively. The Japanese company's gadgets accounted for 52 percent of the video game devices sold in the United States.
"Nintendo has certainly been the belle of the hardware ball," NPD analyst Anita Frazier told AFP on Friday.
"The DS has driven portable gaming to a new level, and for the second year in a row, the DS has been the top-selling hardware platform."
Nearly 8.5 million Nintendo DS devices were sold in the United States last year, while buyers snatched up approximately 6.3 million Wii game consoles.
"By the end of 2007 we were sold out of virtually all hardware, and much of our stock of software and accessories was sold out as well," said Cammie Dunaway, the executive vice president of marketing at Nintendo of America.
"And that momentum continues here in the early weeks of 2008."
Sony sold 3.97 million PS2 consoles and 2.56 million of its newer PS3 consoles in the United States in 2007, NPD reported.
Microsoft last year sold 4.62 million Xbox 360 consoles, which debuted in the market in November of 2005, a year before Wii and PS3 were released.
Video game hardware sales were boosted by the fact that it was the first full year that the Wii and PS3 consoles were on the market.
Daunting prices on PS3 consoles and the speed with which Wii models vanished from store shelves made Sony's previous-generation PlayStation 2 a "fall-back" for buyers, according to NPD.
Sony trimmed PS3 prices last year in the face of floundering sales blamed on its high cost and a dearth of coveted games for the consoles.
"Both the PS3 and the Xbox 360 realized strong month-over-month hardware sales increases," Frazier said.
Frazier predicts that the video game industry will continue to flourish in the United States this year, but not at the stellar rate of growth seen in 2007.
"I expect to see 2008 increase over 2007, with more growth, proportionately, coming from software sales," Frazier said, adding that the competing consoles feature online game services that make money from subscriptions and downloads.
"While we will continue to see strong hardware sales, particularly if prices come down again, the spotlight now turns from hardware to software."
Xbox 360 sales surged with help from the releases of highly-coveted games such as "Halo 3," which is tailored exclusively for Microsoft's consoles.
Analysts maintain that the availability of fun, well-crafted gaming software is a key factor influencing console purchases.
"The 360 in particular seems to have benefited from a killer slate of hardware-acquisition-driving content including Call of Duty 4, Assassin's Creed and Halo 3," Frazier said.
Approximately 8.64 billion dollars was spent in the United States on game software for consoles and portable devices, according to NPD.
"Halo 3" was the top video game title, with 4.8 million copies sold.
Activision's "Guitar Hero" game in which competitors score points by playing along to rock music on guitar-like controllers raked in 820 million dollars, a new one-year record for video game franchise sales in the United States.
But Nintendo's "Mario Brothers" holds the throne as top-selling franchise of all time.
"Mario was the second-best selling video games property for the year and remains the historically best-selling property in the video games industry," Frazier said.
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SF Im adding this to the Oregon DD you found for any new eyes here.
Also plan on emailing or calling VTSI and TI TRAINING
on this Oregon legislation news.Chances are any states that dont have this type legislation in place,will be following Oregons lead.Another nice potential rev. stream.
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VirTra Systems manufactures the only 360-degree capable, high-definition firearms training simulator systems for military, police, law enforcement, and security agencies. (click here for product video) Lethal threats can come from any direction. Your use-of-force training system should also prepare you for all directions. VirTra Systems has developed the world’s first firearms training system that includes a completely immersive, 360-degree environment, incorporating the realistic sensations of sight, touch, sound, and smell. For more than ten years, VirTra Systems has developed and manufactured advanced virtual reality products. With products that have withstood throughput of over 1.5 million persons, VirTra Systems understands technology, durability, low maintenance, and trainee uptime.
Current Issues/Trends in Judgmental Use-of-Force
Each incident involving the loss of life of officers or suspects, is reviewed in order to determine what could have been done differently to preserve life. Did the officer employ currently-approved tactics? Was too much, or too little force used? Was the officer properly trained to deal with this type of situation? Can lessons learned provide new techniques to avoid or reduce loss of life in the future? Until now, range officers could not adequately replicate actual shootings for training purposes because of technology limitations. The IVR™ series firearms training simulators now allow real-world training in a simulated environment that is closer to actual situations police and military encounter than ever before.
Take, for example, the Grape Street Shooting (September 14, 1984), or the Newhall Incident (April 5, 1970). In each of these incidents, the officers lost their lives because they were dealing with multiple threats from different directions. Today, we train differently, but single screen simulators do not expand or stimulate officer awareness to his or her surroundings. In fact, many instructors feel the industry is encouraging “tunnel vision” by having the trainees focus on an 8-10 foot screen directly in front of them. With the utilization of the IVR-base™HD, IVR-180™HD, IVR-300™HD, and IVR-360™HD, instructors can now demonstrate proper response tactics, in addition to contact and cover principals. With IVR™ use-of-force training systems, instructors can now:
train for multiple threats from all quarters
train target tracking from 0-degree to 360-degrees
train to avoid “tunnel vision,” reducing surprise attack
Call and schedule a demonstration today! (800) 455-8746
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"Our intent is to meet or exceed the Small Business Goals for the PEO. In order to do so, we will likely have a broad stable of Small Business Primes within STOC"
Thanks B17 SO it went from 25 to 47% to small business.
Now I remember you posting that to me last week I think it was.
What countries in the mideast did MG Dalby hit on his trip,anyone know?
B17 You also had mentioned the fact that
there will be substantial changes in the STOC II small busines
award details coming,thats something else Im REALLY wanting to see.
Should be good.
STOC II (PEO STRI Omnibus Contract II), will be a set of multiple-award Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts to provide simulation, training and instrumentation products and services for the Warfighter, beginning with concept development and continuing throughout life cycle support.
That is an eye catcher ,if we get in the game we should be set for many years.
working with christie,entersense,eon reality are all going to big big parts of virtra's future imo.It sounds like the Orlando
product role out is top notch, really looking forward to more news ,up dates on the syastem.
Dalby didn't become a MG by not getting the job done.He'll
make this happen,the man took on a battle here,and thats what he lives for.
Now Im off to the Raytheon site.
Thanks B17
"The STOC II competition will consist of a full & open competition along with a partial small business set-aside as set forth in the solicitation."
So it is possible thar VirTra could land direct "small business" contract,contracts,and also sub contract work for
a larger contractor.
Is that right???? I think you pointed this out earlier B17
IMVHO You would have to be a brain dead turnip
to think VirTra will not be a player in ARMY STOC II.
VirTra Systems’ high-definition 'life-like' human video characters, tetherless recoil systems, and Threat-Fire™ belt engaging ‘virtual return fire’, enhance the training effectiveness and realism of the system.
The life-size, immersive ‘first person shooter’ simulator is a joint collaboration of the world’s most advanced virtual reality technology providers including Christie, EON Reality, Inc., InterSense Inc. (I/ITSEC booth #2747), and VirTra Systems, Inc.
This adrenaline pumping, hyper-realistic, multi-sensory environment forces the trainee to respond to their surroundings. To create realistic depth cues and perception, Christie has configured a blended array of Christie Mirage HD6 (1920 x 1080) DLP® projectors giving a curved 120-degree horizontal field of view. The approximate 2K by 3K resolution single unit stereo display creates a seamless image, providing more realism and immersion for the ‘first person shooter’
Bennington said he’d like to see industry “fuse current emerging and future live and virtual technologies in order to create a fully immersive training environment that replicates as closely as possible the effects and conditions of the battlefield that would allow a dismounted infantry squad to effectively train in the wide spectrum of tasks necessary to execute a full range of operations.”
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Now,just look at the product we just brought to the Orlando show.Does it not sound exactly like what Bennington asked for????
An article from this past summer
sorry if this is a re-post.
It wasn’t long ago that small arms training for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps consisted solely of a soldier or Marine being taught how to fire an M16A2 rifle at pop up or stationary targets on a shooting range. While live fire training remains the basis for both to learn how to efficiently and effectively operate their small arms weapons, simulations have provided another means for troops to sharpen skills, improve accuracy, better train as a group under certain scenarios and reduce ammunition costs for a U.S. military that finds itself stretched to the limit. As the military looks for ways to better incorporate simulations into training to improve performance, efficiency and cut costs, many companies throughout the industry are offering products and services to help the military accomplish its goals.
Small Arms Weapons
Small arms weapons have played an integral role in the success of the U.S. military. With the United States expected to fight more asymmetric instead of traditional foes in the future, proper training and knowledge of how to use these weapons, particularly in an urban environment, will take on even more importance. The traditional calling card small arms weapon for the U.S. military is the M16A2 rifle, or the M16. The U.S. Army purchased the first version of the rifle, the M16A1, in 1964. The M4 combat assault rifle was first used by the U.S. Army in 1997. It is the standard weapon used by some Army units, including the 82nd Airborne Division and special operations units like the Army Rangers. Other small arms weapons the U.S. military uses include the M-9 Handgun, M-24 Sniper Weapon, the M40A1 Sniper Rifle, the M249 SAW, M240 Machine Gun and the M2 Machine Gun.
Simulations Impact on Small Arms Training
Simulations have had a tremendous impact on small arms weapons training, particularly when it comes to improving a warfighter’s accuracy as well as helping the services train for certain scenarios, according to analysts. When you are dealing with an asymmetric foe, it’s imperative for warfighters to not only be able to shoot accurately, but also know whom to shoot at, Garrick Ngai, an aerospace and defense industry analyst for Frost and Sullivan, told MT2.
“Back before [the U.S.] engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan, if we were practicing against the Russians or against the Soviets coming through Europe, the hordes of tanks and the Soviets coming over, we didn’t really need these scenario-based driven solutions at all,” Ngai said. “We didn’t need them. All we needed were the targetry—one shot, one kill at a Soviet soldier. That’s it. But now that we have actually moved toward Iraq and Afghanistan, asymmetric warfare for instance, you know what, the enemy isn’t so clear, we don’t know who is who, and we’re not out in the forests or woodlands anymore. We are fighting in urban areas. That’s why simulation, if you target scenario-based driven training, that’s the way to go.”
Dean Lockwood, a weapons systems analyst with Forecast International, told MT2 that the greatest contribution made by simulations could be the amount of money the services have saved on ammunition costs. “Probably the most important impact that [simulations] is having is, by using simulations, the services are not using ammunition,” Lockwood said. “You figure over the last four years now, supplying enough ammunition has been a real issue.”
For example, the U.S. Army’s demand for small caliber ammunition increased from 426 million rounds in 2001 to 1.5 billion rounds in 2006, according to the Joint Munitions Command at the Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois. As far as expenditures, the U.S. government spent $688 million on ammunition last year, up from $242 million in 2001, according to the command. The most common rounds ordered were the 5.56 mm, 7.62 mm and .50 caliber, according to command officials. The ammunition costs would have been much higher if the services weren’t training with simulations and instead were using live ammunition, analysts said.
Another benefit of simulations is that it has helped “the logistics of training,” according to Ngai. “The simulation solutions have been very light and deployable,” he said. “They can be deployed in a trailer or shipped overseas. It really helps the logistics of training your soldiers. You don’t have to come back to the states and do it here. Again, it keeps your skills very fresh and busy, that’s a good thing, and it saves a lot of costs as well, too.”
Simulation has also helped keep training standards consistent, analysts said, because troops can receive the same training instruction wherever they may be. If they depended solely on human instructors for training, each service member could receive different levels of training based on the experience and skill level of the trainer as well as the teaching structure in place, Ngai said.
Army Simulation Use at PEO STRI
The U.S. Army has increasingly turned to simulations to improve small arms weapon training for its soldiers. In January 2007, the U.S. Army Program Executive Office, Simulation Training and Instrumentation Command awarded a $24 million contract to Cubic Corporation for its Engagement Skills Trainer 2000 (EST 2000) training system and other defense training systems. EST 2000 teaches marksmanship skills, squad-level collective defense and judgmental “shoot-don’t shoot” tactics and trains soldiers in the use of small arms, as well as the 50 caliber M-2 machine gun and the 40 mm Mark-19 grenade launcher. The enhanced Warrior Skills version of EST 2000 allows mounted or dismounted soldiers to engage enemy targets as they move through virtual urban environment that replicates current combat conditions and includes simulated improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Cubic’s Simulation Systems Division in Orlando, Fla., produces and manufactures the complete small arms training systems for both the EST 2000 and the Warrior Skills version. Each EST 2000 system consists of an instructor/operator station, a high-resolution projector, a detection system, an air compressor, a screen, cabling and hoses to connect to lane position weapon boxes and the associated small arms weapons. Systems can be interconnected to provide 5-, 10- and 15-land firing positions. Cubic offers a fully self-contained deployable shelter to house and train EST 2000, with the shelter being equipped with lighting, heating and air conditioning.
Terry Fiest, director of business development for Army Systems at Cubic Simulation Systems Division, told MT2 that what makes the EST 2000 and WST systems unique are that each are built to U.S. Army requirements. “We are the only system that has ever been built that was built to an Army standard,” Fiest said. “All of our competitors out there have built training systems, but they’ve built the training systems on their own merit. They have never had the luxury of sitting down with the [Army] infantry school and discussing the infantry requirements and then making a system fit the requirements. There are a lot of trainers out there that you can fire weapons with and you can do all that training, but you don’t get the accuracy and you don’t get the ballistics that we offer on our system.”
The EST 2000 is used by Army, National Guard and Reserve units throughout the United States, Europe, Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq, Fiest said. WST systems have been used by the Army, National Guard, the Air Force and the Department of Energy.
ISTM for USMC
The United States Marine Corps has long prided itself on the axiom that all Marines are “riflemen first.” That’s why recruits spend several weeks of their boot camp learning how to fire small arms weapons on live ranges. However, there has been movement in the service to include more simulation technology to improve small arms weapon training. Since 1993, the USMC has used an Indoor Simulated Markmanship Trainer to assist Marines in small arms weapons training. The ISMT program is an interactive audio-video weapons simulator that provides the capability for Marines to conduct standards-based training in basic and advanced marksmanship. It also allows Marines to judge which targets to engage, improve combat marksmanship and select employment tactics for more than 17 weapons and the use of supporting arms, including mortars, artillery, naval surface fire support, and rotary-wing and fixed-wing close air support. ISTM and ISTM-XP, an updated version of the earlier product, are produced by Meggitt Defense Systems FATS/Caswell, which has offices in Georgia and California.
Terry Bennington, a retired USMC sergeant major and project officer for the Technology Division, Training and Education Command, Quantico, Va., told MT2 that simulations and the ISTM have had a major impact on the way the Marine Corps approaches small arms weapons training. “[Simulation] has had a huge impact, especially when you consider that we have deployed basically every Marine Corp reserve unit that we have,” Bennington said. “Every reserve unit out there has an ISMT system and they were totally dependent on that ISMT to prepare their Marines to deploy to OIF and OEF. Because in some cases, the reserve units out there don’t have ranges that they can get to. So they are totally dependent on that ISMT system to effectively do their training on weapons. Right now, I’m in a position where I can’t field enough of them. I just have a huge request for them.”
The Marine Corps has over 600 ISTM systems fielded throughout the service, according to Bennington. To be qualified with a weapon, Marines still have to go to the rifle range, he said. “You still have to go to the range and put steel on target,” Bennington said. “Simulations currently are a reinforcer.” This past year, the Marine Corps integrated Rifle Combat Optics into its ISTM-XP trainers. In the next several weeks, the service will award a contract for a simulation Combat Convoy Simulator, Bennington said.
Companies Impacting Small Arms Simulation Training
There are several companies offering simulation products that have helped militaries around the world improve small arms weapons training for their soldiers. MPRI, an L-3 Communications company, offers Laser Marksmanship Training System (LMTS) targets and accessories to include BEAMHIT, the Laser Collective Combat Advanced Training System (LCCATS) and SafeShot products. LMTS supports realistic and comprehensive handgun, rifle and machine gun marksmanship instruction, helps to identify individuals in need of remedial training and facilitates that training as need prior to qualification firing, according to the company. LMTS is comprised of an eye safe laser that fits into the barrel of the firearm with no modification. An electronic target acts as a receiver for the laser bullet. When the hammer falls, a laser pulse is emitted and hits are registered with precision, according to the company. As many as ten targets may be linked with one personal computer for real time display of shots, time of fire, dispersion of the group and mean point of impact. LMTS supports training on most military small arms including the M9, all variants of the M16, M16A4, M4, the M249 and M240 machine guns and the M24 7.62 mm sniper rifle. “LMTS is designed to be an integral part of a well-rounded small arms marksmanship program,” said Sid Oaksmith, vice president of operations for MPRI. “The systems are not intended to replace live fire, but serve as training devices to make live fire training more productive.”
Besides the ISTM and ISTM-XP systems, Meggitt Defense Systems FATS/Caswell also offers a Bluefire Wireless Weapon Simulator and System Controlled Weapons. The FATS Bluefire Wireless Weapon Simulator uses commercial wireless Bluetooth technology to communicate with the training system. For weapons with a recoil action, the action is brought about by using a rechargeable magazine of compressed gas. The Bluefire weapon simulators can also be used in conjunction with other FATS system controlled weapon simulators without requiring any system modifications, the company said. Wireless weapons include configurations of the Sig P226, Beretta M9, Walther 99, M4 and SRS Rifle (M16 type). The company’s System Controlled Weapon Simulators are high fidelity simulators built to tolerances within 10 percent of the live weapons weight and center of gravity.
“We are constantly pushing the limits of virtual training to align our product development with reality,” Dietrich Volkland, a spokesman for MDS FATS/Caswell, told MT2. “Our customers such as the U.S. military demand that we deliver the next level, the next tool to support their warfighting superiority. By increasing our weapons’ portability, and allowing trainees and teams to move more freely within their training environments, we improve combat readiness.”
VirTra Systems Inc., with offices in Arizona and Texas, offers an immersive small arms training simulator for asymmetrical warfare, using a 360-degree multi-screen, high-definition simulator that completely surrounds small teams, squads or even convoy vehicles in the scenarios. VirTra offers a range of tether-less recoil systems for most military weapons applications, according to the company. The company’s products also include SAT military marksmanship qualification courses to 1000 meters. Clients for VirTra Systems’ situational firearms training systems include the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, the Department of Defense, and national and international law enforcement agencies, according to the company.
Saab Training USA, a subsidiary of Saab Training Systems, provides laser simulators that can be used for all types of direct firing weapons. From small arms and shoulder launched anti-armor weapons to main battle tanks, these laser simulators are developed from a generic set of components and are, therefore, easy to adapt to new or future applications, according to the company. Saab Training USA also offers “man worn” vests or Personnel Detection Devices (PDDs). AnthroTronix of Silver Spring, Md., is working with the Marine Corps to develop a multi-room, mixed-environment Battle Simulation System to provide a realistic combat atmosphere for all Marines and sailors deploying to Iraq. General Dynamics C4 Systems offers Virtual Warrior, a configurable set of hardware and software components enabling Individual Combatants (ICs) to participate in a simulation environment, while also offering the ability to control the simulation and capture event data for analysis and After Action Review (AAR).
As far as live fire training aids, Advanced Training Systems Inc., in St. Paul, Minn., has several products to assist small arms weapons training, including permanent pneumatic shooting ranges, portable tactical target systems, stylus wireless range control, running man (moving) target systems, modular shoot houses and ballistic facades and 3-D simulation systems.
U.S. Military’s Future Simulation Needs
With training needs changing daily, industry can best help the U.S. military accomplish its training goals by providing realistic simulation products that help fill in the gaps between available and needed technology, several military officials told MT2. Bennington said he’d like to see industry “fuse current emerging and future live and virtual technologies in order to create a fully immersive training environment that replicates as closely as possible the effects and conditions of the battlefield that would allow a dismounted infantry squad to effectively train in the wide spectrum of tasks necessary to execute a full range of operations.”
“Right now, our ranges and our training areas are busier than they’ve ever been,” Bennington said. “We have modified a lot of our training events in order to fulfill requirements that the warfighting Marine needs out there right now. Simulations need to parallel it in order to [fill in] the gaps. As you know, simulations cannot do everything. But simulations can do a lot of things. But everything that we do within simulations has got to be built that identifies a task within our training requirements manuals. And if you don’t do that, then what you are really building is a game. And we’re not building games. We are building simulations.”
Simulation has an important purpose in small arms weapons training, but it will never replace the real thing, Lockwood said. “Despite the technological advances, [simulation] is not and never will be a perfect substitute to getting out there and doing it for real, but it gets you a lot closer anyway,” he said. “It gets you to some reasonable level.”
Looking it over B17
Id say we definitely fall into the 5 and 6 cat.
9,10 and 13 also,but 5 and 6 for sure!
Way to go B17,NICE!
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Fifth Dimension Technologies
5DT is a high technology company specializing in Virtual Reality(VR). 5DT uses InterSense tracking systems to develop, produce and distributes VR hardware, software and systems.
Hybrid MC
HYBRID MC is a French company providing turn-key solutions for virtual set aimed at the broadcast & film production industry. For over 10 years, we developed, designed and distributed worldwide tracking camera heads, motion control solutions and 2D & 3D virtual sets.
Immersion
Immersion offers the IS-900 tracking systems for their CyberGlove®, CyberTouch™ and CyberGrasp® haptic hardware & software products. This solution provides smooth, precise tracking that is free from interference caused by metallic environments or ultrasonic noise.
i-O Display Systems
Makers of i-glasses HMDs for video, pc, and virtual reality
i-O Display Systems manufactures personal display devices and stereoscopic 3D products for both video and computer uses.
L-3 Communications Link Simulation and Training
Link integrates InterSense tracking technology into several flight simulation systems currently deployed with government agencies. Most notable of these is the AVCATT-Areconfigurable rotary wing trainer for the US Army and National Guard.
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin delivers both flight simulation and mission training systems using InterSense's full product line of motion tracking systems.
NVIS
NVIS Inc., a developer of high resolution, near eye immersive display systems, together with InterSense combine their technologies to offer an integrated display system for tracked immersive and interactive visualization solutions. The integrated products combine NVIS’ nVisor SXand Virtual Binocular SXwith InterSense’s IS-900 MiniTraxor InertiaCube2motion tracking technology.
n-Vision Industries
nVision Industries provides the Datavisor® line of helmet mounted display, and virtual binocular products. n-Vision & InterSense offer tracked HMD and virtual binocular solutions to a broad customer base.
Kaiser Electro-Optics
KEO designs and manufactures head-mounted displays (HMD's)that can incorporate InterSense's full range of tracking products.
Sensics
Sensics, Inc., is the panoramic virtual reality display company. Based on patented technology developed over nearly a decade of research, Sensics delivers upgradeable, lightweight, panoramic head-mounted displays that combine ultra-wide field of view and high resolution.
SEOS
As the leading global supplier of display and immersive solutions for Simulation and Visualization, SEOS has established a worldwide reputation for supplying innovative, high quality, cost-effective display solutions with a high level of expertise and exceptional service for all of our customers. SEOS integrates InterSense's full range of tracking technologies into their visualization systems.
Silicon Graphics
SGI offers InterSense's IS-900 tracking systems for their immersive visualization solutions. Covering a broad range of industry, government, education, research and entertainment applications, SGI's image generator computing systems have a direct interface through the InterSense SDK.
Virtalis
VR systems integrators and resellers of all the key VR hardware and software products, including their own in-house developed StereoWorks. They supply all commercial, academic and military markets and are sufficiently well resourced to help with specification, installation and support. They have the best resourced commercial demo suite in Europe, which includes an IS-900 Wireless with head, hand and object tracking.
VirTra Systems
VirTra Systems has extensive experience in developing virtual reality experiencesas well as manufacturing the systems that deliver them. VirTra Systems also offers interactive virtual reality training system platforms. Both the VR experiences and training systems are offered with InterSense's full range of motion tracking products.
Virtual Research Systems
Virtual Research Systems is the leading supplier of displays to the professional Simulation & Training and Virtual Reality markets. All of Virtual Research's displays are available with InterSense motion tracking products.
Visual Training Solutions Group
VTSG provides low cost, high fidelity, virtual reality training and simulation systems by merging leading edge software technology and commercially available PC hardware with superior subject matter expert content. VTSG offers InterSense's full line of tracking systems as part of their simulation and training system solution.
Could be Doug,news may be close.One thing about the markets ,ya stand a much better chance of making money off a bottom than at the top...
Lookin' good!
Have a great weekend
B17 Im watching the other company web sites
that partnered with Virta on the DIT (dismounted infantry trainer)as well.we may get news from them on contracts or other news before we get it from VerTra.A pretty good day for us today,lookig forward to next week Tue.
InterSense Inc. Here are a few others InterSense works with.
Bodes well for Virtra to be working with InterSense come STOC II time IMVHO.
InterSense Inc.December 18, 2007
InterSense Awarded NASA Phase III SBIR Contract for Emerging Air Transportation System
December 13, 2007
New Research Reveals Strong Motion Sensing Influence on Purchases of Gaming Consoles and Large-Screen Displays
November 26, 2007
Lockheed Martin Selects InterSense for F-35 Lightning Pilot Training Program
November 26, 2007
InterSense IS-900 Motion Tracking System Selected for US Army Flight School XXI Program Upgrade
October 23, 2007
Rockwell Collins Selects InterSense Head Trackers for AVCATT Program
October 18, 2007
University of California Irvine’s Beall Center Showcases InterSense Technology
September 5, 2007
Raydon Enhances VWI Program with InterSense Technology
August 6, 2007
Stargate Digital Deploys Customized Virtual Studio Solution Developed by InterSense Partner Cinital
August 6, 2007
InterSense Develops Interface for UGS Tecnomatix Jack, Providing Advanced Motion Tracking for Human Modeling and Simulation
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IS-1200 VisTracker
Wide area inertial-optical tracking system
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A very nice list B17,a whole lot
of potential news in the pipe lin.
I say we turn the grassy knoll dd over to billpr.
I/ITSEC/Orlando, FL – (November 26, 2007) – Christie, a global leader in visual solutions for business, entertainment and industry, is showcasing a sophisticated and true-to-life dismounted infantry trainer concept at this year’s Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation & Education Conference (I/ITSEC), in Orlando, Florida. Visitors to Christie’s booth, #3339, will have the opportunity to experience tactical infantry training using high quality head tracking to interact in real-time with stereoscopic warfare content. The life-size, immersive ‘first person shooter’ simulator is a joint collaboration of the world’s most advanced virtual reality technology providers including Christie, EON Reality, Inc., InterSense Inc. (I/ITSEC booth #2747), and VirTra Systems, Inc.