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Hot Gaming Conference Announces Keynotes
Team Orlando announced today keynote speakers for its 2011 GameTech Users’ Conference.
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Boarder's Ahoy! Wins People's Choice award at I/ITSEC 2010
The NATO ACT game "Boarder's Ahoy!" wins the People's Choice award at the annual Serious Games Showcase & Challenge.
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Video Game 'Energizes' Climate Change Solutions
A game created in partnership between the Orlando Science Center and the University of Central Florida's Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy took first place in the student game category of the 2010 Serious Games Showcase & Challenge.
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Locally Developed Energy Game Takes 1st
The 2010 Serious Games Showcase & Challenge competition was held this month as part of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation & Education Conference at the Orange County Convention Center. “Serious games” are akin to simulators, in that they teach real-world skills.
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Serious Games Winners Announced
The Serious Games Showcase & Challenge winners were announced at an award ceremony the final day of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC).
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FedSUN Infrastructure Grant Improves Collaboration Network
The National Center for Simulation (NCS), in partnership with the Orange County Research and Development Authority (OCRDA), announces that it was awarded a Defense Infrastructure grant in the amount of $346 thousand by the State of Florida to further develop and maintain the FedSUN network in the Central Florida Research Park (CFRP), completing the final phase in the ongoing project which began in 2004.
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Serious Games Showcase & Challenge Unveils 2010 Finest
Team Orlando announced today, the annual I/ITSEC Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (SGS&C) 2010 finalists.Team Orlando announced today, the annual I/ITSEC Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (SGS&C) 2010 finalists.
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ABIS: Avatar Based Interview Simulator
The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center's Behavioral Science Division unveiled the newest tool they have to help students become better interviewers and the first law enforcement based interview simulator of it's kind.
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High-tech Training Shows Merge Efforts for 2011 Events
Two annual high-tech training shows that bring hundreds of engineers from around the world to Central Florida have combined the planning for their 2011 events, officials said Thursday.
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From Saxophone to Simulation
Properly beginning our session with the Pledge of Allegiance and a moving saxophone performance of the National Anthem, the stage was set for members of Leadership Orlando Class 79 to participate in briefings by all branches of the military and their civilian and industry counterparts and to experience, firsthand, what the Modeling, Simulation & Training cluster means to the Central Florida region and our state.
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Senator LeMieux Experiences MS&T
Sen. George LeMieux (R-FL) got a look at the real simulation industry on August 11, 2010, when Navy Capt. William “Roto” Reuter, Commanding Officer of Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD), and retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom Baptiste, Executive Director for the National Center for Simulation (NCS), hosted a visit with Team Orlando.
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Talking With Capt. William Reuter: Cost-effective alternatives
Capt. William "Roto" Reuter, 49, is the newly appointed commander of the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, the Navy's largest simulation-training development agency, based in east Orange County. He spoke with Sentinel staff writer Richard Burnett.
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Research park adapts to anti-terrorism makeover
For nearly two years now, Central Florida Research Park in east Orange County has been quietly and subtly transforming some of its most prominent facilities into anti-terrorism fortresses for the high-tech military agencies located there.
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Team Orlando Celebrates Milestone
Team Orlando, as it is known today, has led to the major concentration of Department of Defense Training and Simulation that resides here in Central Florida, and now also includes each of the military services, other federal agencies and local and state governments.
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New U.S. Medical Simulation Center/60th Anniversry, Team Orlando Celebrates
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is building a Medical Simulation Center for Excellence at the new Orlando Veteran Affairs Medical Center. Team Orlando celebrated the 60th anniversary of signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
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Local Simulation Industry Marks Training Pact
Orlando's training-simulation industry recently marked an improbable 60-year anniversary of what may be the longest military interagency collaboration on record.
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Will Wright and the Art of War
Will Wright, the creator of the "Sims" and a keynote speaker for the 2010 Defense GameTech Users' Conference, takes a tour of Team Olrando.
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Coming Down From a High
Financial crises, drawdowns and public perceptions are shaping military budgets, but there are bright spots. Chuck Weirauch and Walter F Ullrich report.
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GameTech 2010 Wrap-up: Winners, Repositories, and Presentations
As the 2010 Defense GameTech Users' Conference wraps up, ADL brings up a few highlights from the conference.
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Strong Partnership, Great Jobs, and Saving Lives America's Military Heroes
Central Florida hosted the 60th Anniversary Celebration of an Interservice Agreement between the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy.
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Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge Finalists Announced
Orlando, FL - This week, the U.S. Army Simulation & Training Technology Center announced the finalists in the inaugural Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge (FVWC). The challenge was launched in August 2009 to reach a global development community to explore innovative and interactive training and analysis solutions in virtual worlds.
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Orlando VA Hospital will be National Hub for Medical Simulation Training
The new Orlando Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Lake Nona has been selected as the national site for medical simulation training, bringing jobs and further prestige to the region's emerging "medical city."
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Secrets of Central Florida Research Park
Texture Magazine, an official publication from the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission, takes an inside look at The Central Florida Research Park.
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Serious Games Winners Announced
The Serious Games Showcase & Challenge winners have been announced announced.
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Surviving on the USS Trayer, the Navy's Disaster Simulator
Night after night, the USS Trayer, sometimes known as "the unluckiest ship in the Navy," takes enemy fire, exploding into burning, flooded wreckage. By confronting mayhem on this replica guided-missile destroyer, recruits learn lessons that may one day save their lives.
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NATO Article
The NATO Research and Technology Organization's Human Factors and Medicine Panel held a workshop in Orlando, Florida during the week of October 19th.
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Bridging the Live to Virtual Communications Gap
Team Orlando proudly shines a spot light on another successful project
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Letter From Frank Anderson, DAU
"I want to thank you so much for all your efforts in helping DAU join Team Orlando and for finding DAU a mutually beneficial home in Orlando!"
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Defense Acquisition University (DAU) Opens Office Space in Research Park
For Immediate Release
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Local Dignitaries Gather to Celebrate Partnership
Central Florida Research Park will soon be home to another facility in the growing modeling and simulation compound.
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Military Research Building Started
Despite gloomy weather, spirits were not dampened on Friday morning at the groundbreaking for a partnership building between UCF and the military in Central Florida Research Park.
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Military boasts large presence in Research Park
Earlier this year the Army's office of simulation and training in
Orlando awarded $17.5 billion in contracts.
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Medical simulation industry taking off in Orlando
With growth of "Medical City" in Lake Nona and the Burnham Institue for Medical Research, medical simulation COMPLETE
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Command Profile: NAWCTSD
The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD), headquartered in Orlando, Fla., is the Navy’s principal center for modeling, simulation and training systems technologies.
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PEO STRI Ensuring U.S. Warfighters Maintain Their Prominence -
The U.S. Army Program Executive Office Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) provides responsive interoperable simulation, training, and testing solutions for warfighters and the Nation. PEO STRI offers life-cycle support for the Army's most advanced training systems around the world.
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Battle Stations 21 Trainer Commissioned at RTC Great Lakes
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UCF, Military to Dedicate Building Devoted to Partnerships in Training, Simulation
In cooperation with the U.S. Military and the University of Central Florida, the Partnership II building will house research and development for both the U.S. Army Program Executive Office Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) and the Advanced Distributed Learning Laboratories.
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