December 2006

PLEXSYS Participates in JVTSE

For the third year in a row, PLEXSYS Interface Products Inc. has participated in the Joint Virtual Training Special Event (JVTSE) held during the Interservice Industry Training Systems and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) located in Orlando, Florida. Information about this particular JVTSE can be found by downloading this brochure.

June 2006

AWACS MTC at Elmendorf Supports
Exercise Northern Edge (5-16 June 2006)

The PLEXSYS AWACS Mission Training Center (MTC) at Elmendorf, manned by members of the 962nd Airborne Air Control Squadron (AACS), was used as the E-3 during Exercise Northern Edge. For the first time, the Alaskan Command sponsored joint training exercise featured the combination of live and virtual assets. The Airborne Warning & Control System provided the opportunity to detect and track units at sea, in the air and on land allowing planners to create a number of training scenarios.

The Elmendorf AWACS MTC was one of three virtual platforms, along with the Distributed Mission Operations Center (DMOC) at Kirtland AFB in New Mexico, to provide data to the Pacific Air Operations Center in Hawaii. This exercise marked the first time a tactical-level Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) event was conducted with the Pacific Air Operations Center and the first time the Pacific Command integrated DMO into joint training.

Master Sgt. John White, an evaluator weapons director and reservist with the 970th AACS, was quoted as saying that live aircraft combined with virtual entities gives the AWACS crews in the Mission Training Center simulators a realistic air picture. He stated, "Instead of controlling a few dozen live training missions, they'll be operating in an environment that appears to be a massive air campaign".

PLEXSYS Interface Products, Inc® is a small dynamic company focused on the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of command and control simulation systems, products and services. Since 1995 we have provided support to sensor-based, data link, Command and Control (C2), and Air Defense interoperability exercises sponsored by USJFCOM, US Army Forces Command and the USAF Distributed Mission Operations Center (DMOC). 

April 2006

PLEXSYS Expands into the Radio Simulation Market

PLEXSYS Interface Products, an established manufacturer of radar simulator equipment and simulation software, announces the release of its newest product PLEXComm® Suite, a comprehensive software package supporting radio communications in a DIS environment.

PLEXComm® Suite offers users the ability to simulate UHF/VHF/HF/SATCOM radio transmissions from mobile or fixed entities; to monitor active radio transmission during exercises; to record and playback radio transmissions.

PLEXComm® Suite interfaces with all known radio simulation systems currently on the market and runs on Windows 2000/ Windows XP. It utilizes a sound card (standard on most of today's computers) and a microphone. No other special hardware is required. 

April 19, 2006

Gibbard Awarded CDS

Lee Gibbard, President/ CEO of PLEXSYS International Canada, Inc. was awarded the Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) Commendation from General Rick Hillier, Chief of Defense Staff of the Canadian Forces during an awards ceremony in Ottawa, Canada.

Gibbard was commended for his successful assignment as the Team Chair of the Operations and Training Task Team for the NATO Distributed Simulation Exercise First WAVE from September 2002 to January 2005. The success of First WAVE November 2004 was highlighted as an example of Gibbard's leadership skills and expertise in air space operations. The 2004 First WAVE exercise was the largest simulation exercise ever attempted with seven NATO nations participating. He was further credited with expanding the operational and technical ties of the Canadian Forces in simulation training with the US and other NATO Allies by arranging follow-on joint and combined simulation exercises.

January 30 2006

MSLITE Used in Exercise

AWACS MTC#3 located at Tinker AFB, OK has been pressed into a new role, and passed with "flying" colors. The 552nd Air Control Wing flying in support of Exercise MESA FURY was augmented by the ground based AWACS MTC to achieve mission success.  When the E-3 aircraft scheduled to fly the mission was grounded for maintenance problems, the AWACS MTC was pressed into service. Utilizing the MTCs Mission Simulation Live Training Environment (MSLITE) capability, the crew came into the PLEXSYS owned and operated MTC and "flew" the mission.  Using the J-29 Radar and communications connections from the Sells Airspace, the crew controlled the entire MESA FURY exercise from the AWACS MTC. Having the ability to employ the AWACS MTC in this manner helps the 552nd save vital training resources and support external unit training events, such as Exercise MESA FURY, a win-win solution for all.