The British Army’s Directorate of Training will be using ITEC 2012 to brief industry on its training needs for the coming years. The Service is currently finalising its training strategy and sees ITEC as an ideal opportunity to give industry a clear understanding of the capabilities it is seeking and to learn about affordable new solutions.

Considered to be Europe’s leading showcase for military training and simulation products, technologies and services, ITEC 2012 will bring together leading figures from the military, academia and industry to examine the future of training needs. Staged at ExCeL London from 22-24 May, ITEC will address the needs of those who define, influence, procure and implement military training with the operational requirements developed by warfighters in theatre.

Brigadier Ben Bathurst OBE, Director of Training (Army) said “As the British Army seeks to transition from Afghanistan to the future, our Directorate of Training is concentrating on articulating our training system requirements as a key element to supporting the training continuum.  In addition, we know we must understand the advantages that we can gain from the technological advances in the simulation, synthetic environments and learning technologies fields in order to be an intelligent customer.  ITEC will allow the Army to achieve both these objectives through the opportunity to engage with industry.”

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Note to Editors:
Throughout two decades ITEC has provided a forum for the display of significant new training capabilities and the discussion of issues of key importance to the global training community. Today ITEC is jointly owned by Clarion Events and NTSA. Clarion Events, the majority stakeholder, is well known for running a number of highly successful defence and security conferences and exhibitions, including Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEi), Counter Terror Expo (CTX) and Undersea Defence Technology (UDT).

About the organiser:
Clarion Events is one of the largest independent and one of the top three event organisers in the UK. Currently Clarion Events employs a talented staff of nearly 500 people in 13 offices: UK (London Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London Hatton Garden, Cheltenham and Birmingham NEC); Germany (Bielefeld); The Netherlands (Maarsen); South Africa (Cape Town); USA (Connecticut and Reno); Brazil (Sao Paulo); Dubai (UAE); Singapore and Turkey (Istanbul).

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Today’s soldiers face new and increasingly complex operating environments which require a range of initiatives; ITEC, Europe’s premier forum for military training and education, will bring together leading figures from the military, academia and industry to examine the future of training needs when it returns to London in 2012. Staged at ExCeL London from 22-24 May, ITEC will combine the needs of those who define, influence, procure and implement military training with the operational requirements developed by warfighters in theatre.

The next 20 years will prove to be a critical time for militaries around the world as they face an ever increasing portfolio of threats, many of them sophisticated and rapidly evolving. While focus today may be directed towards counter-insurgency and defeating irregular threats, how do we know what the future security challenges will be?

Cyber warfare presents a new increasingly deadly dimension to global conflict. In addition to threats to land and sea environments, these multifaceted and unpredictable attacks could even replace more traditional air campaigns, crippling a country’s ability to defend itself.

Protecting critical physical and virtual infrastructure against computer-based attack is a crucial aspect of the national security sphere, which military and governmental planners have already started to address. In a time of rapid technological progression, developing a sound understanding of the threat is the first step in its suppression. The robust and sophisticated training methodologies needed to comprehend, identify and combat cyber warfare, will retain a vital role in the future and will feature highly on the ITEC 2012 agenda.

Anna Campagnoli, ITEC 2012 Exhibition Director said “The military simulation and training industry has a unique status within the defence sector and is in a strong position for further growth. While economic cuts continue to dictate the international defence agenda, the training and simulation market presents its global customer with a cost effective, efficient and increasingly essential addition to an armoury. Preparing troops for humanitarian emergencies, for example, is a realistic response to a rising crisis that many militaries simply cannot afford to ignore. ITEC 2012 in London will comprehensively demonstrate the important part that military training and simulation has to play in safeguarding the modern world against modern challenges.”

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Note to Editors:
Throughout two decades ITEC has provided a forum for the display of significant new training capabilities and the discussion of issues of key importance to the global training community. Today ITEC is owned by Clarion Events, which runs a number of highly successful defence and security conference and exhibitions including Defence Security & Equipment International, Counter Terror Expo and Undersea Defence Technology.

About the organiser:
Clarion Events is one of the largest independent and one of the top three organising companies in the United Kingdom. Currently Clarion Events employs a talented staff of 280+ people in eleven offices: London (Earls Court Exhibition Centre and Hatton Garden); Cheltenham; Birmingham (NEC); The Netherlands (Maarsen); South Africa (Cape Town); USA (Connecticut and Reno); Brazil (Sao Paulo); Dubai; Singapore.

‘It’s been brilliant’. ‘It’s been buzzy’. ‘The best ITEC for years and years’. These comments from exhibitors are typical of the enthusiastic response from participants in ITEC 2011, which was staged at Koelnmesse, Cologne, from 10 - 12 May.

The statistics bear out the claims for the 22nd ITEC. The event attracted a total of 3,142* visitors and no less than 46 nations were represented. There were some 500 military visitors, 47 of whom were senior officers. The large number of uniforms walking the aisles was welcomed by exhibitors. Les Mitchell, Programme Manager Training Systems, Saab Training Systems (UK) Ltd, said, ‘I am very pleased with the level of attendance by UK MOD and other key militaries internationally’, while Alan Rowan, a Saab Senior Capability Manager, praised the diversity of the visitor base. He described the event as ‘By far the most fun gathering but with great business contacts too. It’s like a select club’.

Chris Stellwag, Director, Marketing Communications – Military, CAE, was impressed with the internationality of the visitors to their busy stand. He said, ‘As a truly global company and one focused on simulation, we find ITEC very valuable in drawing together the key customer audiences to highlight our range of simulation-based solutions. This year’s show has delivered the defence visitors, particularly from Europe, that we were targeting’.

SME’s were just as pleased as the big players, as Jeremy Spurr, Managing Director of the specialist simulation and training consultancy NSC emphasized, ‘ITEC is exactly the right place to be and NSC will undoubtedly come back to London in 2012. The show provides the global focus for military training and simulation, giving smaller companies the opportunity to meet with international partners. Ten minutes at ITEC can prove to be more valuable than three months of discussion at home’.

Dr Lewis Johnson, CEO and the Chief Scientist behind Alelo’s immersive virtual world simulations agreed, ‘The high quality of the visitors at ITEC 2011 was very encouraging and the show provided the perfect place to make contact with people from across the industry. There was also a strong connection between the conference programme and the exhibition floor, with elements of the agenda directly related to the products we’re currently developing’.

The fun element was very much in evidence on Wednesday evening, when live bands provided a carnival atmosphere as visitors and exhibitors mingled in a vibrant networking session.

ITEC event director, Anna Campagnoli, said, ‘ITEC 2011 demonstrated that despite the austere budgetary climate facing many nations, the training and simulation industry is rising to the challenge, not only with enthusiasm but also with dynamism and a very positive spirit. It is also obvious that good business is still being done.’

ITEC 2012 will be held at ExCeL London from 22 – 24 May. 

* All numbers are subject to a final audit

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Note to Editors:
Throughout two decades ITEC has provided a forum for the display of significant new training capabilities and the discussion of issues of key importance to the global training community. Today ITEC is owned by Clarion Events, which runs a number of highly successful defence and security conference and exhibitions including Defence & Security Equipment International, Counter Terror Expo and Undersea Defence Technology.

About the organiser:
Clarion Events is one of the largest independent and one of the top three event organising companies in the United Kingdom. Currently Clarion Events employs a talented staff of 280+ people in eleven offices: London (Earls Court Exhibition Centre and Hatton Garden); Cheltenham; Birmingham (NEC); The Netherlands (Maarsen); South Africa (Cape Town); USA (Connecticut and Reno); Brazil (Sao Paulo); Dubai; Singapore.

What will the military simulation and training landscape look like in 2025? The ITEC 2011 conference will be living up to its reputation as a forum for forward-looking debate with a new stream entitled, ‘MS&T – the coming decades’. Running over days 1 and 2 of the conference (May 10 and 11), the stream will include Australian, UK and US perspectives on a strategic roadmap for defence MS&T. Speakers include Dr Chris Mace, Director Defence Support Reviews, UK MOD.

The 22nd ITEC begins today with a keynote address given by Lieutenant General Karlheinz Viereck of the German Air Force, who holds the role of Deputy Chief of Staff, Joint Force Training, (HQ SACT), NATO.  General Viereck will tackle the burning question of how simulation and training can support operational challenges in the context of fiscal pressures.

Those fiscal pressures, which are being felt by many militaries, have highlighted the need for efficient procurement and conference sessions are dedicated to maximizing performance in this all-important area, including ways of shortening the procurement cycle.

Training to defeat cyber warfare moves ever higher up the agenda and the papers to be presented include an argument for a simulation system that can be employed across the live, virtual and constructive training domains.

Not all military operations involve conflict. The major natural disasters that have struck countries around the world have highlighted the crucial role of emergency management planning and conference delegates will be able to hear how the training sector is responding to the challenge through such techniques such as the creation of virtual worlds.

Running concurrently with the ITEC conference, the exhibition will provide tangible evidence of the innovative ways the training and simulation industry continues to respond to changing customer needs.

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Note to Editors:
Throughout two decades ITEC has provided a forum for the display of significant new training capabilities and the discussion of issues of key importance to the global training community. Today ITEC is owned by Clarion Events, which runs a number of highly successful defence and security conference and exhibitions including Defence & Security Equipment International, Counter Terror Expo and Undersea Defence Technology.

About the organiser:
Clarion Events is one of the largest independent and one of the top three event organising companies in the United Kingdom. Currently Clarion Events employs a talented staff of 280+ people in eleven offices: London (Earls Court Exhibition Centre and Hatton Garden); Cheltenham; Birmingham (NEC); The Netherlands (Maarsen); South Africa (Cape Town); USA (Connecticut and Reno); Brazil (Sao Paulo); Dubai; Singapore.

ITEC 2011 started with a Keynote Address and Senior Officers Panel that saw attendees briefed on the future of simulation and in particular, the need for more flexibility and agility in the relationship between industry and the end user. General Karlheinz Viereck, NATO’s DCoS Joint Force Training, HQ Supreme ACT, argued the case for ‘radical solutions’ for future training that include ‘a more agile, responsive and affordable’ approach.

In calling for NATO nations to ‘pool their training resources’ General Viereck also made the case for closer cooperation with industry in the planning stage for new training systems so that both the user and industry communities ‘can benefit from each other’s experiences’. The changing paradigm of training was echoed by the UK MoD’s Dr Chris Mace who said that ‘training for tomorrow’s operations will not be the same as training for current operations’.

One area of increasing change will be in networked training, according to Greg Knapp from JFCOM’s Joint Coalition Warfighting Center. Such training is ‘more flexible and better able to replicate the modern battlespace’ he told a packed auditorium.

The final presentation came from Alistair Halliday, Raytheon Technical Services UK Programme Director. He argued that the current fiscal challenges affecting many NATO nations ‘present an opportunity for innovation and the adoption of creative training solutions’.

In total, more than 2,000 visitors came through the doors in Koelnmesse of which 632 were registered for the conference. Representing 38 countries, these attendees also included over 250 military personnel. As well as some first class paper presentations covering M&S standards, developments in virtual training and analysis & design of training equipment visitors also had the opportunity to see some cutting edge training technologies on the show floor.

Highlights included the unveiling of projectiondesigns’ new FL-32 FS RGB/IR/LED projector system. The projector was being demonstrated in its night mode using Night Vision Goggles (NVG). The company’s Anders Lokke said that the FL-32 FS was drawing a great deal of interest at the show and negotiations for the first contract were now well underway.

Another major innovation on show was MSE’s Virtual Theatre. Designed to insert the soldier into the virtual world, Virtual Theatre allows trainees to move through a 360 degree virtual scene and may be networked to other theatres to provide team training scenarios.
BARCO was showing off its high-resolution SIM 10 projectors as well as its new dome system, eight of which are being supplied to ‘an overseas customer’. The new domes provide resolutions of up to 10 million pixels with a dynamic contrast ratio of 10 million:1.

First time exhibitors Oshkosh, was showing off its range of mobile shelters for deployable simulators. “We’re having a good show with lots of interest,” said the company’s Sales & Marketing Manager, Robert Watson. “There are a number of opportunities that we are pursuing and the show provides a great opportunity to talk to potential customers.”

But ITEC is not all about the virtual world. Lockheed Martin was reflecting on its recent $17.6 million delivery order for the supply of Instrumented Ranges/Digital Range Training System (IR/DRTS). The programme has a potential to reach $450 million over the next five years and will provide collective gunnery training and qualification for a range of US armoured fighting vehicles.

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Note to Editors:
Throughout two decades ITEC has provided a forum for the display of significant new training capabilities and the discussion of issues of key importance to the global training community. Today ITEC is owned by Clarion Events, which runs a number of highly successful defence and security conference and exhibitions including Defence & Security Equipment International, Counter Terror Expo and Undersea Defence Technology.

About the organiser:
Clarion Events is one of the largest independent and one of the top three event organising companies in the United Kingdom. Currently Clarion Events employs a talented staff of 280+ people in eleven offices: London (Earls Court Exhibition Centre and Hatton Garden); Cheltenham; Birmingham (NEC); The Netherlands (Maarsen); South Africa (Cape Town); USA (Connecticut and Reno); Brazil (Sao Paulo); Dubai; Singapore.

Agusta Westland
At this year’s ITEC, AgustaWestland and DiSTI Corporation will demonstrate a jointly developed training technology capability for the iPad. The iPad’s learning content consists of both controllable courseware as well as more complex emulations of aircraft systems. An initial proof of concept was developed for the Apache Tactical Situation Display (TSD), which provides a visually compelling, tactile and interactive emulation of the main mission computer for the aircraft. Interactive 3D models and graphical emulations created in GL Studio can be deployed on devices such as the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

Antycip
At ITEC 2011 Antycip Simulation will be exhibiting with its partners VT MAK, DiSTI, Scalable Network Technologies, AGI, Cogent 3D, TrianGraphics, TerraSim, Bionatics and Harris. Visitors to the Antycip Simulation Village will have the opportunity to see all the latest technologies in the COTS software domain. At the centre of the booth, a joint demonstration showcasing all products in action will present a UAV simulation application exclusively built with COTS software tools.

CAE
CAE Caesar, launched earlier this year, is a full-bodied trauma patient simulator that can be used outside the classroom in different types of terrain, climates and other challenging elements which confront first-response teams in the field. CAE Caesar autonomously generates a wide range of physiological responses to traumatic injuries and treatment. As soldier medics work through various scenarios, they can receive valuable and continuous feedback that details CAE Caesar’s vital signs, treatments provided and verbal cues that can range from lucid to anxiety-filled responses. If the soldier medic’s interventions are correct, CAE Caesar’s condition will stabilise or improve. 

ECA Sindel
Italian based ECA Sindel will be showcasing its Submarine Team Trainer (STT) Solution at ITEC. The STT is designed to fulfill international Navies’ requirement for an integrated and tactical platform-handling submarine simulator and is adaptable to perform different types of training, such as team building and Battle Station simulation. Also on show will be the Anti Submarine Warfare Team Training Simulator (ASWTTS).

LINE
Following the launch of its mobile learning programme for the iPad at ITEC 2010, this year LINE will be showcasing some of its mobile learning projects developed for various mobile devices, as well as more traditional technology based training content developed for tri- service application.

Oshkosh Speciality Vehicles
First time exhibitor Oshkosh Specialty Vehicles has chosen to introduce its Speciality Vehicle custom manufactured trailers and shelters to Europe at ITEC 2011. On display will be its specialty device trailers which can be used with AH-64 Apache Helicopter Longbow Crew Trainer simulators, as well as its Operators Driver Simulators (ODS) mobile trainer facilities and vehicle simulator which train students on how to operate a number of vehicles including Medium and Heavy Tactical trucks, HMMWV, and Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAP).

PDM Training Solutions
At ITEC 2011, PDM Training and Consultancy Ltd will showcase its wide range of training services provided in support of the British Army’s C Vehicle Fleet (Engineer Construction Plant and Rough Terrain Mechanical Handling), involving training needs analysis, course design and training delivery.

SAAB
SAAB will present its Counter IED Training System for the first time at ITEC. This innovative system includes an Exercise Control Centre, which tracks the movement of soldiers with mine detectors. Also on show will be several new simulators for training in joint fire, small arms and close-air support.

V STEP
Visitors to the V STEP stand will be able to experience hands-on demonstrations of the company’s newest products such as the NAUTIS Naval Task Force, an innovative maritime simulator created especially for Navy and Coast Guard, and RescueSim Naval Shipboard Firefighting, which educates trainees in a virtual environment to effectively control onboard incidents and fires.

WITTENSTEIN aerospace & simulation GmbH
“Control Loading & Vibration” are the key words on the stand as WITTENSTEIN aerospace & simulation fixes its focus on Helicopter Simulator Vibration Systems and Control Loading Systems. Visitors are also invited to experience the “touch and feel” of Control Loading Systems and Vibration Platforms.

ITEC 2011 takes place 10-12 May 2011, Koelnmesse Cologne. For full details visit: www.itec.co.uk

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For further information please contact
Nick Johnstone/Georgia Langdon - CMS Strategic
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Note to Editors:
Throughout two decades ITEC has provided a forum for the display of significant new training capabilities and the discussion of issues of key importance to the global training community. Today ITEC is owned by Clarion Events, which runs a number of highly successful defence and security conference and exhibitions including Defence & Security Equipment International, Counter Terror Expo and Undersea Defence Technology.

About the organiser:
Clarion Events is one of the largest independent and one of the top three event organising companies in the United Kingdom. Currently Clarion Events employs a talented staff of 280+ people in eleven offices: London (Earls Court Exhibition Centre and Hatton Garden); Cheltenham; Birmingham (NEC); The Netherlands (Maarsen); South Africa (Cape Town); USA (Connecticut and Reno); Brazil (Sao Paulo); Dubai; Singapore.