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Sen. Marco Rubio learns about modeling, simulation at NAWCTSD Orlando
U.S. Senator for Florida, Marco Rubio visited the Naval Support Activity and Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division Orlando during an orientation tour of one of the nation's largest Modeling and Simulation industry clusters.
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Spotlight Person of the Month: Robert Rohlfing, Deputy Director, AFAMS
As the story goes, Robert Rohlfingknew from the age of two that he was destined to be a pilot. His dad flew rescue planes in WWII, and then when his dad left the military, he continued his aviation career as a pilot in the Reserves.
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CPAG Breakfast - January 2012
Keeping with tradition, the Combined Professional Associations Group held their annual Defense Forum Breakfast January 6, welcoming the four military service leaders to brief attendees on the past year's highlights and their expectations for the upcoming year. Along with the serious nature of the discussions, much of which was centered around impending budget cuts and more clearly defined needs for request for proposals, there were some laughs and of course, CAPT Reuter's personal opportunity to make sure the audience was well aware of this year's Army-Navy game results.
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Central Florida Navy League Continues Lone Sailor Memorial Efforts in Creatively Motivating Ways
The Central Florida Navy League paid a special visit to a local assisted living facility on the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day.  On Wednesday, December 7th a group of volunteers, including men in uniform, organized a reception to honor Mr. Floyd "Pete" Petiprin at the Winter Park Towers Assisted Living Facility.  Their visit included a presentation honoring Mr. Petiprin with a donor paver in celebration of his 41 year U.S. Navy service.
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Marine Corps Commemorates 236th Birthday at Cake Cutting Ceremony
The Marines at PM TRASYS celebrated their 236th birthday in style with a cake cutting ceremony hosted by Colonel David A. Smith, Program Manager, Training Systemson November 10. More than 100 guests attended the special ceremony at Partnership III, and watched the traditional Passing of the Cake Ceremony.
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Serious Games Showcase & Challenge: Pushing Gaming Technology Forward
It was standing room only at Warfighters' Corner on the last day of Interservice/Industry Training Simulation Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in anticipation of six announcements for the 2011 Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (SGS&C). The six-year-old event has massively grown and become an energized area on the I/ITSEC floor drawing thousands of observers receiving hands-on demonstrations of the very popular "People's Choice Award".
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Spotlight Person of the Month: Mr. Dan Torgler, PM TRASYS
Dan Torgler currently serves as the Marine Corps System Deputy Program Manager for Training Systems for the Marine Corps System Command and has more than 25 years in procurement of training systems for the Navy, Army, Air Force, Coast Guard and Marine Corps. 
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A Call for Action Strengthens Central Florida STEM Activists
Orange County took a step toward encouraging students’ interest in science technology and math studies. On Sunday, November 27, a proclamation was officially announced marking the first day of STEM Week in Orange County.  
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Spotlight Person of the Month: Col. Eide
Colonel Peter K. Eide is the Chief of the Simulators Division, Agile Combat Support Directorate, Aeronautical Systems Center, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. 
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Intentional Collision: Healthcare and Simulation
Dr. Roger Smith, former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) , Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation, and current CTO, Florida Hospital Nicholson Center, along with colleague, Dr. Rick Wassell, System Administrator, Nicholson Center, were invited guests of LTG (ret) Tom Baptiste, Executive Director, National Center for Simulation (NCS) at a luncheon to brief Orlando's modeling and simulation (M&S) industry on their state-of-the-art new facility. 
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Did You Know?
It is "one of the most significant innovations to football coverage since instant replay," pronounces Fred Gaudelli, executive producer of football for the ABC TV network. And yet it stemmed from a failure in hockey broadcasts that was rejected by die-hard fans as a garish gimmick that defaced their game. 
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PEO STRI and FLETC Continued Teamwork Yields Maximum Results
Team Orlando members Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) and Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), have collaborated to create a training tool to benefit law enforcement students.
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America's Game: Army vs. Navy
In sports, there are rivalries and then there are rivalries. But there is only one truly national college football game -- The Army-Navy Game.
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Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Focuses On Personalized and Adaptive Learning
Learning technologies continue to change at an unprecedented rate. ADL’s focus is on maximizing the next generation learning environment for the next generation of learners.
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Spotlight Person of the Month: Mr. Rob Matthews, NAWCTSD
Rob Matthews is only a few hours away from the city of Lake Wales, where he was born and raised.  For the better part of thirty years now, he has made his home the Navy, seven and one-half years as an Aviation Electronics Technician, and then joining the Naval Training Systems Center, currently Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) in 1985 as an education specialist. 
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Team Orlando Leaders Provide Update at M&S Summit
Each of Team Orlando’s military service leaders provided briefings of their respective Military Services into the latest in Modeling and Simulation trends for participants at the second annual Institute for Defense and Government (IDGA) Modeling and Simulation Summit, August 29-31 at the Rosen Centre in Orlando, Florida.
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NSA Orlando Prepares for Welcome Changes to Science Drive Pass & ID Gate
Plans are underway to enhance the new Science Drive gate by constructing a freestanding pass & ID facility that will serve as a multi-purpose clearinghouse for employees, visitors, retirees, and dependents.
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All Eyes on Marge, One Final Time
No ceremony has taken place in Warfighter Park in a long time without Marge Hadbavny, Protocol Officer, Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI). On Friday, September 24th, Marge stood before the flags one last time.
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Nothing Lonely About These Sailors
The Navy League Lone Sailor Navy Memorial Committee held a special event on Thursday, September 22nd to raise funds to donate a patriotic Lone Sailor Statue in a Navy Memorial to the City of Orlando to demonstrate gratitude to those who served at the Naval Training Center of Orlando for over three decades.
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NSA Orlando employees walk to raise breast cancer awareness
In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, more than 30 Navy and Army civilian employees joined together Monday, Oct. 3 at lunchtime to walk more than a mile aboard Naval Support Activity Orlando.
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Seemingly ‘Sci-Fi’ Technology Becoming Reality
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DAPRPA) recently completed a five-year program called Urban Photonic Sandtable Display (UPSD), one of the projects that Michelle Kalphat, Chief Engineer and DARPA agent at the U.S. Army Research and Development and Engineering Command, Simulation and Training Technology Center (ARL STTC), has been involved with for nearly five years. 
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Team Orlando Update: Leveraging Learning – Department of Defense and Department of Education Look for Collaboration
The early August Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative’s iFest (an Office of the Secretary of Defense event) featured Department of Defense training and learning technologies as an opportunity to team with the Department of Education in helping reclaim American education leadership.
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National Center for Simulation (NCS) to Host GameTech 2012
Building on the long‐standing government, industry and academic relationship, Team Orlando announced today that the National Center for Simulation (NCS) will host the 2012 GameTech Conference.
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Simulation Highlights & MT2 - Team Orlando Update
Simulation Highlights reports on the Defense GameTech Users' Conference hosted by Team Orlando.
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Keyboards First. Then Grenades - NY TIMES
Andrew Martin and Thomas Lin from The New York Times reports of Defense GameTech Users' Conference hosted by Team Orlando.
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Immersive Worlds
DefenseNews reports on how Militaries race to keep up with commercial trends providing in depth coverage of the event.
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MS&T's Conference Report of GameTech 2011
MS&T provides an in-depth conference report of the annual Defense GameTech Users' Conference which is hosted by Team Orlando.
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A Band of Army Green Among a Sea of Navy Blue NAWCTSD Leaders Talk Rivalry, Partnership with PEO STRI
We share a parking lot and security guards. We both eat lunch at Nature’s Table and attend a CMWRA event every once in a while. Every now and then, one or two of them will burst into a Town Hall Meeting. Who are those people in, dare we say, “Navy” blue singing along to “Anchors Aweigh” every chance they get? You guessed it, it’s our Navy comrades!
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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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