THE TEAM ORLANDO APRIL 2013 NEWSLETTER
UPCOMING EVENTS
Leader of DoD Training Programs to Kick Off GameTech By Terri Bernhardt
Frank DiGiovanni, Director, Training Readiness and Strategy, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary Defense (Readiness), will be the Government Keynote for this year’s Defense GameTech Users’ Conference: Thrills to Skills, in Orlando, Fla. Given his passionate stance in the power of simulation and its impact on warfighter readiness, GameTech leaders are confident that attendees will be equally informed and challenged by DiGiovanni’s presentation. READ MORE
April 17-19, 2013 GameTech Caribe Royale, Orlando www.gametechconference.com
April 30 - May 2, 2013 MODSIM World 2013: Hampton, VA May 14, 2013 USAF APBI: Dayton, OH
Going Virtual: A Necessity Moving Forward by Dolly Rairigh Glass
With the challenges the government currently faces in this tough fiscal environment, its employees are much less likely to attend conferences and meetings that have historically played an important role in their jobs. Whether that interaction improved the understanding of their job through hands-on training, helped them learn skills that improved their performance or gave them opportunity for networking and partnering, these gatherings have provided great benefit to all involved.
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Orlando VA Medical Center Making Strides
May 22-24, 2013 ITEC 2013: Rome, Italy June 6, 2013 Combined Morale, Welfare & Recreation Association's 5K Run Red Park Lake Park, 10a to 4p POC: Sonja Ricks, 380-8382 or Sonja.ricks@navy.mil
By Terri Bernhardt
The Orlando VA Medical Center is a patient-centered health care organization servicing almost 90,000 patients; it is committed to improving the health and well being of America’s veterans. The Medical Center is a collection of health care, research and education facilities that include the Community Living Center, the Residential Rehabilitation Program, two Outpatient Clinics located in Viera and Daytona, four Community Based Outpatient Clinics located in Clermont, Kissimmee, Leesburg, and Orange City, and the planned VHA National Simulation Center. READ MORE
PM TRADE Develops Next Generation of LOMAH Technology by Dolly Rairigh Glass
The Location of Miss and Hit (LOMAH) technology has existed for many years, but late last summer/early fall, the Project Manager for Training Devices (PM TRADE) Target Modernization team saw their concept to modularize and streamline LOMAH become a reality when the LOMAH system passed its Government Acceptance Test (GAT). PM TRADE, an organization of the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), is the new system’s Materiel Developer, and since that GAT, they have been busy fielding two additional LOMAH ranges, demonstrating LOMAH’s training potential, and gaining momentum for their modernized LOMAH technology.
June 12-13, 2013 Training & Simulation Industry Symposium (TSIS) 2013: Orlando, FL June 15, 2013 Army Birthday Ball June 24-26, 2013 Medical Technology Training & Treatment (MT3) Rosen Shingle Creek Orlando, Florida www.mt3conference.com
DID YOU KNOW? The White Cap By Carla Hoskins, NCS
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The white navy hat evolved from the first uniform hat of the early 19th century Russian Navy. AFA Warfare Symposium Talks About the Future No other military service hat is By Terri Bernhardt more recognizable than the The 26th Annual Air Force Association (AFA) Warfare Symposium & simple white canvas uniform hat Technology Exposition was held February 2013 in Orlando, Florida. of the Speakers at the symposium included top Air Force, government and United aerospace industry leaders that talked about the future of the States Force. Some of the agenda topics referred to the last two decades Navy. of war and continuous operations, Air Airlift Working Group The cap is Findings, industrial base concerns and AFA’s priorities for moving not only ahead. an icon for the navy, but has also READ MORE inspired the uniform cap for many of the world's other navies Spotlight: NCS Leader Lt Gen Tom Baptiste Passionate Advocate as well. Through its rich history, By Dolly Rairigh Glass the uniform cap has donned the When Lt Gen (Ret) Tom Baptiste decided to retire in Orlando in heads of navy soldiers--male 2007, it was so he and his wife, Judy, could be close to their two and female. grown daughters and four grandchildren. He had been assigned to MacDill Air Force Base (AFB) in Tampa three different times, and The Navy hat is also referred to there was an attraction to Florida that was already established. by colorful nicknames such as "Dixie" or "Dixie Cup," "squid lid," "dog dish," "seagull" and READ MORE "Mason jar top."
NCS Prepares for Upcoming Events in May By Dolly Rairigh Glass
Grab your clubs and join your colleagues at the 8th Annual NCS Scholarship Fundraiser Golf Tournament on Friday, May 3, 2013 at Stoneybrook East Golf Club. Expect the best raffle prizes of the year to be given away during a superb Italian buffet lunch at Stoney’s Grill, and the course will be set up to make it great fun, even for the mere mortals who don’t hit it 300 yards! The cost is $70 per player, with a 7:30am check-in and an 8:30am shotgun start! READ MORE
Help the MoTIF Project By Taking the Mobile Learning Survey
Respectfully submitting for Team Orlando: Terri M. Bernhardt Editor Dolly Rairigh Glass Contributing Editor
ADL has launched a new project to explore how education and training practitioners can best use mobile technologies to design Follow Us On Facebook learning solutions for the next generation of learners. The ADL Mobile Learning Team would like your input for the Mobile Follow Us On Twitter Training Implementation Framework (MoTIF) project Needs Analysis Survey to inform Phase 1 of the project. Your responses are Please send story ideas to: extremely important to ADL’s research on mobile learning. Any media@teamorlando.org voluntarily-provided personally identifiable information (PII) such as your email address, phone number, or organization will not be shared outside of ADL. READ MORE Visit: www.teamorlando.org