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DT Media will be at the following events:

I/ITSEC 2008 - DT Media will be at I/ITSEC 2008 to be held on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th December 2008 in Orlando. http://www.iitsec.org



24/07/2008
	USAF Activates Insight Recognition Trainer The United States Air Force has formally activated Insight Recognition Training System. The USAF purchased Insight after determining that it is the best threat recognition program to suit their training requirements. This month, the system will be distributed to all USAF squadrons in Air Combat Command, the major command responsible for all the fighters and bombers in the continental United States. The USAF's main goal for Insight is to use the program to prevent fratricide by training for the timely identification of enemy and friendly air, land and sea platforms. Designed by DT Media Ltd, UK, Insight provides multi-spectral interactive imagery in SCORM®-compliant distributive training format, using innovative recognition and embedded 3D training techniques. Accessing imagery exchange agreements, all media within Insight is end-user adaptable and updatable. Trialled by NATO Allied Command Transformation in 2005/6, Insight is available in all 21 languages used by NATO and in Arabic. The USAF is the 22nd military user of Insight.



24/07/2008
	Insight Javelin Unleashed The latest version of Insight features Javelin anti-armour missile system symbology, allowing students to engage ground and air targets in day or thermal imaging, whilst using Javelin switchology. Insight Javelin uses PlayStation® 3 controls and interfaces, within a serious games format. The first user of Insight Javelin will be a school of infantry within Europe.



20/06/2008
	Type 45 Destroyer NBCD Trainer - Communications System Serco (Weymouth) has awarded DT Media a Contract to develop an emulation of the Internal communications element of the Fully Integrated Communications System (FICS) for installation by Serco in the Royal Navy’s new Type 45 Destroyer Nuclear Biological and Chemical Defence and Marine Engineering Officer Of the Watch training systems within HMS Excellent and HMS Sultan. The Type 45 communications emulation will utilize the latest version of DT Media’s communications software developed for the new Communications Team Trainer recently supplied to a major Middle East Navy. This will be linked to new graphical user interfaces developed specifically to emulate the Type 45 Destroyer’s Voice User Units. The basis for the system is the extremely reliable Fleetman Communications system first supplied by Serco (Weymouth) and DT Media in 2004. These systems are in regular use in Royal Navy’s Waterfront Learning Centres and at the Communications Warfare Training Group in the Maritime Warfare School.



09/04/2008
	Communications Team Trainer Delivered On the 9th April 2008 DT Media handed over a Communications Team Trainer to a major Middle East Navy. The system, which has been developed from the Fleetman communications system in use with the Royal Navy since 2006, has added a new level of realism in voice and data communications training. The delivered system has workstations for 20 Students and 2 Instructors and simulates HF, VHF, UHF and SATCOM voice and data circuits. The Instructor has the ability to insert fading, noise, spoofing, jamming and atmospheric effects such as anomalous propagation. A powerful replay facility enables the Instructor to replay an exercise from any point and to show what radio selections had been made by each Student throughout the exercise. The system incorporates a Scenario Generator, through which the Instructor can insert air, land and sea platforms plus land-based communications centres. Before an exercise the Instructor can set up multiple frequencies to create a realistic Communications Plan, assigning frequencies to individual Students associated with the Task Group or formation they are operating with to simulate different COMPLANS. The new Communications Team Trainer will be incorporated with all future sales of the Fleetman family of naval and marine training systems for use in both military and civil training systems. The system will also be used in a new Joint Forces trainer currently in development by DT Media for an overseas customer.

30/11//2007

	The Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) chooses Insight for recognition training. The Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) of the UK’s Territorial Army has become the 22nd user of the INSIGHT recognition trainer. The HAC’s Surveillance and Target Acquisition (STA) Patrols Battalion provides Military Capability in the form of an STA consisting of a Patrol Regiment with up to four STA squadrons, Headquarters (HQ) and Signals Squadrons and a Liaison Officer (LO) troop, operating at Regimental level and with the ability to deploy on operations within 90 days in order to contribute to the Land component of the UK’s military capability. The HAC sees the ability to accurately identify both friendly and enemy equipments and vehicles as being as important now as it has ever been. The dynamics may have changed in that they are now expecting their young soldiers to identify the difference between a Toyota HILUX and the Ford equivalent rather than note the peculiarities of a particular version of BMP or BTR. (Although this clearly still has it’s place!). Being a Reserve Unit, one of the greatest training challenges facing the HAC is actually the availability of time and ruthless prioritization needs to be carried out in order to ensure that this scarce resource is used as efficiently as possible. The acquisition by the HAC of the INSIGHT Recognition Training System will permit Phase 2 & 3 recognition training to be streamlined and ultimately to be developed to a higher level, thus better reflecting the contemporary operating environment in which HAC soldiers are now fighting. The system will also give the HAC’s G2 cell a much needed operational capability that can be deployed as and when required. This capability of offering G2 recognition data in an operational environment has not before been available at Regiment Headquarters level and the HAC are convinced Insight will provide a significant enhancement to Regimental operating procedures.


29/09/2007

	21st International Order for the Insight Recognition Trainer DT Media Ltd has won an order from its 21st international customer for a Corporate User License for the Insight Recognition Training System. This latest order, together with earlier sales to NATO and other international users, establishes Insight as the market leader in Combat Identification (CID) and recognition training. As the only off-the-shelf CID and Joint Forces recognition training system on the market, Insight has effectively become the system of choice for a growing number of major Coalition users. Developed by DT Media Ltd, Insight provides multi-spectral interactive imagery in a SCORM®-compliant distributive training format, using innovative recognition training techniques, all displayed on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) PC hardware. Insight users have access to academic, operational and pre-deployment CID and recognition training material, as well as dynamic multi-spectral visualizations for mission rehearsal to aid combat effectiveness and reduce the risk of fratricide (so called friendly fire). Insight includes recognition data on air, land and naval threats and can be linked to optional electronic warfare and weapons databases.


01/07/2007

	Doug Littlejohns joins DT Media’s Board Retired Royal Navy Commodore Doug Littlejohns CBE MBA has joined DT Media Ltd as a Non Executive Director. Doug is former President and CEO of Red Storm Entertainment Inc, a multiple media entertainment, training and simulation company in the USA. He led the company, with author Tom Clancy, to become the eighth biggest PC entertainment publisher in North America in less than three years and was acknowledged for his innovative marketing approach and sound strategies. Since returning to the UK, he has been involved at Board level with a number of companies in the IT, media and production arenas. The former submarine and frigate commander, and MD of Earl's Court and Olympia, will blend his business, software, security and military experience to support the growth of DT Media Ltd at our base in Totnes, the former home of Charles Babbage, seen by many as the father of modern computing.


12/06/2007

German Air Force orders the Insight Recognition Trainer

The German Federal Office for Military Technology and Procurement has placed an order for multiple licenses of Insight Recognition Training System and will become the 17th international customer of the software. Insight provides multi-spectral interactive imagery in SCORM®-compliant distributive training format, using innovative recognition training techniques. The software will be installed on computer networks within the Officer School of the Luftwaffe, Furstenfeldbruck.

18/06/2007

	A FRIENDLY INVESTMENT – Finance South West invests in reducing friendly fire DT Media is celebrating a double win this week after receiving a substantial investment from Finance South West and securing a deal to supply the German Air Force with software to reduce the risk of ‘friendly fire’ in battle. Geoff Tompson, Managing Director of DT Media, is delighted with the Finance South West investment and is confident the German Air Force contract will lead to even better things. “The Finance South West investment is fantastic as it will enable us to expand our business at a faster rate than would otherwise have been possible,” he said. William Jenkins, Investment Manager for the Finance South West Growth Fund, said: “We are very pleased to be investing in a successful and forward-thinking company such as DT Media, which has some impressive customers already on board, and we look forward to playing a significant part in its future success.” Finance South West is an £18 million investment fund that provides commercial finance from £10,000 up to £1 million for buying, selling, starting or growing a business in the Objective Two area of the South West of England. The company also offers business planning services and mentoring through a network of qualified professionals and a panel of non-executive directors to help businesses achieve their goals. The Finance South West Loan Fund has invested £2.2 million in 46 small and medium-sized businesses, levering £3.75 million into the South West economy and safeguarding 160 jobs and creating 98 new jobs. Legal advisers on the deal were Sam Billingham from Michelmores and Ed Probert from Foot Anstey, both in Exeter, and Charles Evans from Frances Clarke in Plymouth.


01/11/2007

British Army Orders Insight

The Javelin wing of the Support Weapons School at Warminster has selected Insight Recognition Training System to provide recognition training for both commanders and operators attending the school. This initial buy will form the basis of a sponsored trail to assess Insight's further utility for recognition training across the British infantry.

Insight, which was developed to address the high level of fratricide (or so-called “Friendly Fire) incidents, is the only off-the-shelf multilingual, user updateable, network enabled recognition training system in the world. So far versions of Insight (and NATO CITS, which uses Insight as its basis) have been delivered in English, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Danish.

25/05/2006

Further orders for Fleetman

During 2006 additional Fleetman systems were delivered to the Royal Navy’s new Waterfront Learning Centres (WLCs) at Faslane and Portsmouth Naval Bases in the UK. As part of the delivery to the Royal Navy additional features were added to Fleetman to allow it to be used for Mine Warfare training. An order has also been received to supply Fleetman and Arabic Insight to the Royal Navy of Oman.

01/03/2006

First Arabic Insight Customer!

In late April 2005 DT Media Ltd received a Contract to supply the bilingual Arabic / English version of its well proven Insight Recognition Training System for a Middle East customer. This new version of Insight will permit Arabic-speaking users to take full advantage of Insight’s powerful aircraft, land vehicle and naval recognition training tools.

01/03/2006

Insight Selected as Basis of NATO’s Combat Identification Training System (NATO CITS)

In January 2005 DT Media Ltd was awarded a Contract by NATO’s Allied Command Transformation (NATO ACT) to develop the Prototype of the NATO Combat Identification Training System (NATO CITS). NATO CITS was subsequently used in 2 major Combat Identification exercises: Exercise Urgent Quest in late 2005; and Exercise Steadfast Jaguar in early 2006.

After using NATO CITS during Exercise Urgent Quest one Canadian soldier remarked, ‘forget all of the technical Combat ID solutions, just give me the training!

01/03/2006

DT Media Participation in I/ITSEC Live Event 6 to 9 Dec 2004

During the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conferences (I/ITSEC), held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida in December 2004 and 2005, the US Air Force and US Joint Forces Command (US JFCOM) demonstrated a step forward in using multiple technologies to provide realistic training during four co-sponsored virtual training demonstrations, called the Joint Virtual Training Special Event (JVTSE).

The JVTSE Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) simulation event involved 33 simulators located at I/ITSEC and as far afield as Arizona and California. DT Media was the only UK-based participant invited to take part in the JVTSE event with both our Fleetman and Insight systems. Fleetman was linked into the exercise using a DIS/HLA interface/bridge to simulate an amphibious task force consisting of a San Antonio Class LPD, 2 Arleigh Burkes, an Oliver Hazard Perry, 2 LCAC hovercraft, amphibious armoured personnel carriers (APCs), and an SH-60 Seahawk helicopter operating in the anti-surface warfare (ASuW) role attacking a hostile corvette.

Meanwhile Insight was integrated with the AFSERS UAV simulation to aid in the identification of land vehicles detected by Predator UAVs. JVTSE was a huge success and both Fleetman and Insight interacted flawlessly with the other participants in 4 public demonstrations.

DT Media’s Insight and Fleetman systems were linked into JVTSE, which in 2004 involved more than 30 systems and in 2005 more than 50 systems.

01/03/2006

Fleetman Accepted into the Royal Navy with Flying Colours!

UK simulation and training specialist DT Media initially handed over its Fleetman training system to Britain 's Royal Navy in February 2004. Fleetman was included in the demonstration phase of the Royal Navy's Waterfront Learning Centre (WLC) at Devonport Naval Base. The WLC allows the delivery of Targeted Employment Modules at the waterfront in order to minimize the amount of separated service for naval personnel. Later in 2004 DT Media replaced the Fleetwork simulation software at HMS Collingwood when software for two 8-position Fleetman simulators was installed.

The 'Fleetman' name describes a family of naval trainers that was originally designed to facilitate Officer of the Watch, Navigator, Yeoman, Flight Deck Officer and Action Speed Tactical Training. However its functionality, according to DT Media Managing Director Geoff Tompson, has 'exceeded' customer expectations. A whole range of variants covering many aspects of naval training is now under development. Fleetman may be linked over a LAN or WAN to permit users at dispersed sites to be trained in a common scenario, using distributed interactive simulation techniques. The software will also run on a notebook PC, permitting training to be continued whilst at sea with exercise results being recorded for relay back to a shore-based training centre for assessment.

Fleetman is a core component of the WLC training system and its only real-time simulation module. It can also be linked to DT Media’s Insight Combat ID system with its platform centric emitter and weapons databases to create all manner of tactical and part task trainers. The 3D simulation engine used in Fleetman may also be used to stimulate embedded training software to add further realism to training during operational deployments.

DT Media is accredited to ISO 9000:2000 (registration No:Q57440) Scope of registration: Design, development, supply, installation and commision of MoD and civilian users of simulation software, equipment emulations, promotional animations, 3D visualisation, low cost training devices (including INSIGHT Recognition system and FLEETMAN Naval Trainer), interactive computer based training modules and instructor-led courses

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