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Camber Corporation and Virtual Heroes Inc. Sign Strategic Teaming Agreement.


Leading Modeling and Simulation Companies Establish Joint Team for the Development of Advanced Learning Technologies

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C. -- Camber Corporation Camber Corporation is a defense contractor headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2006, it recorded $110 million dollars in revenue and ranked among the top 100 federal prime contractors. , a leading contractor of services and solutions for government and commercial clients, and Virtual Heroes Inc. (VHI VHI Voluntary Health Insurance (Irish health insurance provider)
VHI Virginia Health Information
VHI Veterans Health Initiative
VHI Verastream Host Integrator (WRQ Inc.
), a leader in advanced learning technologies, today announced that they have signed a strategic teaming agreement. The agreement was established to help develop large government contract wins and enhance the advanced technology base of both companies. It will also facilitate the sharing of technical expertise, contract support and marketing resources as both companies will work together to build a joint team, common technology base and brand to drive the development of interactive training solutions and products

"Virtual Heroes has definitely established a leadership position in the advanced learning industry, with its successful track record in the federal systems arena and innovations such as HumanSim[TM] in the healthcare arena and their state-of-the-art Advanced Learning Technology (A.L.T.) platform," said Walter Batson, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Camber Corporation. "We selected Virtual Heroes to enhance and strengthen our Team's ability to further the delivery of PC based simulations and other advanced learning solutions for our clients. This agreement will provide the means to expand our advanced modeling and simulation product solutions within the Federal marketplace."

"We are very excited to combine our resources, technology and expertise with Camber Corporation to create and deliver even greater value to clients of both companies," stated Jerry Heneghan, Virtual Heroes founder and CEO. "Together, we can make those products and solutions available to even more organizations."

Camber provides a wide variety of services and solutions in the areas of Joint Technical Services, engineering, training, information technology, modeling and simulation, decision support, and homeland security Noun 1. Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security
Department of Homeland Security

executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States
. They have been recognized by agencies and offices within the chemical and biological defense community for outstanding performance and contributions to the nuclear, biological and chemical defense program and national security. Camber has been recognized for providing state-of-the-art technology support to R&D centers, government labs and program offices. They have also been recognized for providing the most comprehensive real-time Weather Radar Simulation. Camber was also the recipient of the 2000 Frost & Sullivan Award A Sullivan Award may refer to:
  • Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award or Mary Mildred Sullivan Award; awarded at 29-grantee institutions of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation.
, the 2001 Defense Acquisition Executive Certificate of Achievement, ad the 2002 Packard Excellence Award in Acquisition for Chemical and Biological Detection and one of the "2005 Top 100 Federal IT Contractors".

VHI creates advanced learning technology solutions for the federal systems, healthcare and commercial markets, leveraging sophisticated electronic computer game and graphics technology to address training and education needs. The company has been recognized for its significant achievement and competency COMPETENCY, evidence. The legal fitness or ability of a witness to be heard on the trial of a cause. This term is also applied to written or other evidence which may be legally given on such trial, as, depositions, letters, account-books, and the like.
     2.
 in the areas of instructional design Instructional design is the practice of arranging media (communication technology) and content to help learners and teachers transfer knowledge most effectively. The process consists broadly of determining the current state of learner understanding, defining the end goal of , digital engineering, project management, modeling and simulation, courseware development and assessment in providing unprecedented immersive training experiences. VHI is also reaching new heights with the current development of a HumanSim[TM] dual-use medical training product platform for military personnel and civilian first responders first responder First response personnel Emergency medicine A person employed in the public sector–EMT, fire fighter, police, volunteer EMS–whose duties include provision of immediate medical care in the event of an emergency; FRs have basic emergency .

About Camber Corporation

Camber Corporation is an employee-owned company, headquartered in Huntsville, AL. From our founding in 1990, we have grown to over 26 Camber offices and over 1400 employees, positioned to provide responsive support to our customers across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  and overseas. In addition, we have personnel on-site at several other locations providing daily interface on technical, programmatic pro·gram·mat·ic  
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or having a program.

2. Following an overall plan or schedule: a step-by-step, programmatic approach to problem solving.

3.
 and operations issues.

Our mission is to provide "best value" management and decision support, joint technical services, and products to government agencies, related industries and clients and to enhance our customers'/clients' best business practices. The Camber Information technology Division provides unparalleled expertise in the development and integration of Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC LVC Lebanon Valley College
LVC Laser Vision Correction
LVC Live Virtual Class (Sun Microsystems)
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LVC Live Virtual Constructive (simulation space)
LVC Low Voltage Cutoff
) simulations into networked environments designed to support distributed training and mission planning. Our experience includes developing, integrating, and supporting state-of-the-art simulator architectures and providing interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other.  solutions for legacy devices to extend and expand their training value.

About Virtual Heroes Inc.

Founded in January 2004, and located in Research Triangle Park, NC, Virtual Heroes Inc. (VHI), the "Advanced Learning Technology Company," creates collaborative interactive learning solutions for the federal systems, healthcare and commercial markets. Advanced Learning Technologies leverage simulation learning and digital games-based learning paradigms to accelerate learning, increase proficiency and reduce training costs for next generation workforce development. As a global market leader in this field, VHI applications facilitate highly interactive, self-paced learning and instructor-led, distributed team training on the Virtual Heroes Advanced Learning Technology (A.L.T.) platform using the Unreal[R] Engine 3 by Epic Games Epic Games, also known as Epic and formerly as Epic MegaGames, is a computer game development company based in Cary, North Carolina, United States. History
Epic Games was initially founded under the name Potomac Computer Systems
. In both 2005 and 2006, VHI was honored by Military Training and Technology magazine as one of the industry's Top 100 companies. Virtual Heroes has expanded its experience and success in the defense sector into the healthcare market with the development of HumanSim[TM], and into the commercial market with custom solutions.

For more information about Virtual Heroes, its products and services, please visit www.virtualheroes.com.
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