November 2005
The Advanced Simulation Interface Buffer (ASIB) is a key component in the final testing phase of the Boeing mission systems upgrade for NATO AWACS aircraft at the NATO Air Integration Laboratory (NAIL) Kent, Washington.

The upgrades are part of the Mid Term Modernization program that included major system-related enhancements to computer displays, communications, navigation, and target identification. A Mod Block I was later added for Electronic Support Measures (ESM) upgrades which incorporated an expanded data link processing capability.

The ASIB is used to integrate the mid-term configured NATO AWACS Mission Simulators with other Joint Tactical Information Distribution Systems (JTIDS) in a network environment. It acts as the mission systems Radar and IFF subsystems, thereby sending and receiving JTIDS messages to and from the Mission Simulators. The retrofit of the entire NATO AWACS fleet is expected to be completed in 2008.

August 2005

A delivery order from was received from Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH for the Site Survey preceding the installation of a fourth AWACS Mission Training Center at Tinker AFB, OK.

August 19, 2005

On Aug 19, 2005, PLEXSYS International Canada, Inc (PIC) was incorporated in Canada. PIC will operate in Canada as a subsidiary of PLEXSYS Interface Products, Inc.^® and Distributed Mission Operations Canada (DMOC) and will have the capability to support the Canadian Forces (CF), similar to the support PLEXSYS currently provides US Forces.

PIC is a 51 percent Canadian owned company and is managed and operated by Canadian personnel with over 75 years of Aerospace Control experience.

PIC's objective is to establish itself within the Canadian Forces Aerospace market and to provide competitive options to new training requirements within the Aerospace and Command and Control (C2) communities of the Canadian Forces.

PIC's board of Directors has designated Lee Gibbard as PIC's Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Lee served with the CF for almost 30 years in the Aerospace Command and Control community. His strengths are in the field of exercise management and scenario creation, generation and execution. Lee has previously held positions of Exercise Director in both Canadian NORAD Region and NORAD's North East Air Defence Sector. Lee was Operations Team Chairman of "Exercise First WAVE"; a seven Nation, NATO-sponsored Distributed Simulation (DS) exercise. Prior to his retirement from the CF in April 2005, he was Project Director and Steering Group Chairman of "War in a Box"; a Canadian Forces Joint DS exercise.

PIC will operate out of Ottawa Ontario Canada, 1238 Barnwell Cr, Ottawa, Ontario, K4B 1K4. Business number (613) 835-7539, fax (613) 835-2400. E-mail: Lee.Gibbard@rogers.com.

July 23, 2005

PLEXSYS moved its corporate headquarters from Portland, OR to Camas, WA on 23 Jul 05, expanding its office space from 9,200 square feet to 20,000 square feet.  All employees were provided with private window offices. An Open House was held for 100 attendees on 30 Sep 05.

PLEXSYS Interface Products, Inc.^® has moved its corporate offices from Portland, Oregon to 4900 NW Camas Meadows Drive in Camas. WA.  The move was made because of a more favorable business climate in Clark County, as well as accommodating the needs of the majority of the company's employees, who already lived in Washington.  The new building will initially house 27 employees, including the corporate officers and managers.

The PLEXSYS corporate headquarters consists of a new two-story building with 20,000 square feet of space, built by Robertson and Olson of Vancouver, WA.  It is the first of several new buildings envisioned in the corporate park area adjacent to the Camas Meadows Golf Course, from which PLEXSYS has already purchased a corporate membership. 

PLEXSYS was incorporated in 1986, and was located on four different properties in Northeast Portland before moving to Washington.  It specializes in Modeling and Simulation for aircraft control and airspace management.  Its products and services include the Airspace Control and Operations Trainer (ASCOT), the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) Mission Training Centers (MTC), and support to military wargaming exercises with both personnel and equipment.  The AWACS MTC's are located at Tinker AFB, OK, Elmendorf AFB, AK, Kirtland AFB, NM and Kadena Air Station, Japan  -- each site having a branch office of PLEXSYS.

May 2005

PLEXSYS began services with its AWACS Mission Training Center at Kadena AB, Japan.  This is the second of two MTC's to be supplied to PACAF; a first one having been installed at installed at Elmendorf AFB, AK in September 2003.  

March 2005

The Air Force Research Laboratory at Mesa, AZ awarded PLEXSYS a subcontract through L3COM to provide two MTC consoles and two Instructor Operator Stations for testing and validation support of selected measurement theory and logic-based cognitive task analyses to generate data that can be reported at the aggregate level, thereby enabling evaluation of trends in pilot performance.  Instructors, pilots, and controllers can use these data to augment training for real-time support or for debriefings. The operational simulation environment will provide the both PLEXSYS and AFRL with enhanced training analysis capabilities.  Aggregation of data over time should support evaluation of training effectiveness and support assessment of potential technology insertion candidates.  This contract extends over a two-year period of performance.

February 2005

PLEXSYS Interface Products, Inc. provided simulation support in all phases of system testing leading up to, and including the execution of the Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) sponsored Joint and Combined Multi-Battle Group In-Port Exercise (MBGIE) with ASCOT Vs and personnel.  During the exercise U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and UK-coalition forces reached a new dimension in virtual wargaming around the globe when they replicated a composite warfighting scenario.  The MBGIE scenario encompassed continuous wartime planning and execution and allowed participants the opportunity to train at all levels. It promoted coordination between warfare commanders, executed joint and combined battle force operations, and familiarized crews with real-time joint and combined operations in both a high-tension and combat environment.

"The virtual exercise duplicated all the fierce intensity of warfare attaining an unprecedented level of reality in wargaming simulation," according to Capt. Mark Nesselrode, commanding officer of the Tactical Training Group Atlantic (TACTRAGRULANT) in Dam Neck, Va.

On the Tactical Floor, TACTRAGRULANT's Cmdr. Tom Pieluszczak, Joint Force Air Component Commander (JFACC) Module Head, and Cmdr. Al Kohnle, Modeling & Simulation Department Head, said watchstanders and battle commanders responded to the same types of scenarios that they would encounter in real warfare.

Forces participating in the exercise included: in Norfolk, Va., Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group staff, embarked in USS Kearsarge; U.K. Marine Forces, representing the UK battle staff, embarked in USS Kearsarge; USS Anzio (CG 68); USS Roosevelt (DDG 80); USS Kearsarge (LHD 3); USS Ashland (LSD 48); USS Ponce (LPD 15); USS Normandy (CG 60); USS Gonzalez (DDG 66); USS Kauffman (FFG 59); USS Mitscher (DDG 57); USS Mahan (DDG 72); USS Hawes (FFG 53); USS Scranton (SSN 756); in Mayport, Fla., USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67); in Tinker, OK, Air Force 552nd Operation Support Squadron; in Niantic, CT, Air Force 103rd Air Control Squadron; in Ft. Bliss, Texas, Army 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade; and UK-coalition forces in Portsmouth, England, HMS Edinburgh and HMS Westminster.

"Virtual training is cost effective and saves valuable time," said Capt. Edward Barfield, commodore for Amphibious Squadron 8. "With the level of sophistication of this technology, we had all the urgency and reality of real combat. The systems we used are exactly the same systems we would use in warfare."