Stottler Henke Wins $4 Million Navy Contract to Enhance PC-Based Simulation System for Training Helicopter Cockpit Crews.Business Editors SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 2003 The U.S. Navy has awarded Stottler Henke Associates Stottler Henke Associates, Inc., founded in 1988, is a company headquartered in San Mateo, California that provides corporate and educational software solutions using applied artificial intelligence. External links
Stottler Henke's original "OMIA" operator system interface part-task trainer (PTT (1) (Postal, Telegraph & Telephone) The governmental agency responsible for combined postal, telegraph and telephone services in many European countries. (2) See push-to-talk. PTT - Post, Telephone and Telegraph administration ), which simulates the operation of the mission display and the center console of the aircraft, is currently used in the Navy's fleet training program for MH-60S "Sierra" helicopter crews at the Navy's helicopter training squadron, HC-3, at Naval Air Station North Island Naval Air Station North Island (NAS North Island or NASNI) (IATA: NZY, ICAO: KNZY, FAA LID: NZY) is located at the north end of Coronado Island in San Diego Bay, is the home port of several aircraft carriers of the United States Navy. near San Diego. The enhanced PTT will add simulated avionics controls to teach pilots, co-pilots and sensor operators the new common-cockpit MH-60R and MH-60S aircraft in an increasingly broad variety of mission tasks and analyses, using the wide assortment of sensor, navigation, and computational resources available. "OMIA gives students cockpit 'button crunching' training, so that when they get into the helicopter or a glass simulator, they know what's where," said Navy LCDR LCDR abbr. lieutenant commander Sal Rafanello, Training Systems Integrated Product Team leader for the MH-60S. "In its current iteration, OMIA has already saved the government millions of dollars, compared to using a fully-featured glass simulator. It's just what we need to get students familiar with button crunching." The enhanced version of OMIA being developed under the new contract will be for "Mission Avionics Subsystem Training" (MAST), incorporating a model cockpit for two students. Students will use actual buttons instead of a computer mouse, to give them a more ergonomically true idea of what a cockpit looks and feels like. Stottler Henke's simulation software will interact with Microsoft Flight Simulator Microsoft Flight Simulator is a flight simulator program for Microsoft Windows, marketed and often seen as a video game. One of the longest-running, best-known and most comprehensive home flight simulator series, Microsoft Flight Simulator to provide the flight dynamics and display. "From day one, OMIA has been designed for flexibility, because the Common Cockpit itself is a moving target," said Dr. Robert Richards, Stottler Henke's OMIA project manager. "The flexible design allows OMIA to work with and control Microsoft Flight Simulator if it is installed, to use commercial off-the-shelf technology and/or custom hardware when attached, and to still function as a complete standalone application." A valuable byproduct by·prod·uct or by-prod·uct n. 1. Something produced in the making of something else. 2. A secondary result; a side effect. Noun 1. of the project has been development of a tool called KeyBuilder, which facilitates not only modifications to the OMIA trainer, but also enhancements to the Common Cockpit design. KeyBuilder allows the OMIA programmable key set to be updated easily via drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. on a PC screen to match upgrades to the Common Cockpit programmable key set. This capability allows developers to easily build and test possible layout improvements. The $4 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ ID/IQ Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity ID/IQ Indefinite Duration/Indefinite Quantity ) contract was awarded by the Naval Air Warfare Center The Naval Air Warfare Center was a former U.S. Navy military installation located in Warminster, Pennsylvania and Ivyland, Pennsylvania. The U.S. Navy purchased the grounds to establish this facility from the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation following its bankruptcy in the , Aircraft Division in Lakehurst, New Jersey Lakehurst is a Borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 2,522. Lakehurst was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 7, 1921, from portions of Manchester Township, . Founded in 1988, Stottler Henke Associates, Inc. applies artificial intelligence and other advanced software technologies to solve problems that defy solution using traditional approaches. The company delivers intelligent software solutions for education and training, planning and scheduling, knowledge management and discovery, decision support, and software development. Stottler Henke's clients include manufacturers, retailers, educational media companies and government agencies. Email: info@stottlerhenke.com. Web: http://www.stottlerhenke.com. |
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