Air National Guard Flies with FATS; $3 Million Contract Upgrades Training Hardware & Software.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 22, 2004 The Air National Guard (ANG ANG In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the NL Antillian Guilder. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) has awarded FATS, Inc. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). : FATS) a $3 million contract for upgrades to their virtual training systems. The agreement provides hardware and software updates to 94 systems, and adds additional backup weapon simulators to the ANG Depot. The ANG is the reserve component of the U.S. Air Force (USAF). The FATS upgrades will add enhanced software capabilities and training realism using new Windows(R) XP based software. ANG's systems will also be equipped with High Level Architecture capability, enhancing the force's "squad tactics" approach to training. FATS is also upgrading the ANG's individual weapons Courses of Fire to replicate changes made in the ANG qualification courses. Many organizations of the USAF train on FATS systems, including recent acquisitions of Indirect Fire-Forward Air Control Trainers (I-FACT) for Combat Controllers, and the Air Ground Operations School at Nellis Air Force Base Nellis Air Force Base (IATA: LSV, ICAO: KLSV) is a United States Air Force base, in Clark County, Nevada, on the northeast side of Las Vegas. It is also treated as a census-designated place by the United States Census for statistical purposes, and so specific . The I-FACT is the first commercially available virtual training solution system designed to train ground controllers in the tactics, techniques and procedures necessary to conduct successful joint close air support operations. FATS, Inc. (OTC: FATS) designs and sells software and hardware simulation training systems that improve the skills of the world's military, law enforcement and security forces. FATS training systems provide judgmental judg·men·tal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or dependent on judgment: a judgmental error. 2. Inclined to make judgments, especially moral or personal ones: , tactical and combined arms Combined arms is an approach to warfare which seeks to integrate different arms of a military to achieve mutually complementary effects. Though the lower-echelon units of a combined arms team may be of homogeneous types, a balanced mixture of such units are combined into an experiences, utilizing company-produced weapons and simulators. The company serves U.S. and international customers from headquarters in Suwanee, Georgia, with branch offices in Australia, Canada, Singapore, Netherlands and United Kingdom. FATS, an ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9000 certified company, celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2004. The company Web site is www.fatsinc.com. |
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