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The DiSTI Corporation, the global leader in commercial HMI software and architecture consulting services, signed an agreement with Perspecta, Inc., to develop two-dimensional (2D) cockpit and dashboard panels for accident investigation and analysis training. The 2D panels will be implemented by the U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center (USACRC) Digital Collection and Analysis and Integration Lab (DCAI) located in Fort Rucker, Alabama.

“We are looking forward to working with Perspecta to expand the capabilities of their training systems,” said Chris Giordano, VP UX/UI Technology. “ The use of GL Studio will enable Perspecta to complete rapid development and save significant production costs and time for the U.S. Army.”

Perspecta has provided flight data management and Military Flight Operations Quality Assurance for more than 20 years bridges the gap between regulatory requirements and daily technical solutions for flight safety, maintenance effectiveness, and operational efficiency.

“The Perspecta/DISTi partnership enables our team to more efficiently produce superior aircraft models for our Department of Defense customers. We look forward to continuing our work with DISTi supporting the US Army and other Perspecta customers,” said Adam Adams, Director of Software Solutions/President of SimAuthor.

GL Studio for rapid development of virtual instrumentation will develop more than 40 cockpit and dashboard panels for Perspecta in support of the following vehicles:

• DHC-8-315 Aircraft
• DHC-7-100 Aircraft
• FMTV Cargo Shelter
• LMTC Cargo Shelter
• Stryker
• MRAPS 4 Wheel
• MRAPS 6 Wheel
• M1A1 Abrams
• M2/M3 Bradley
• HMMWV Passenger/Cargo
• HEMMT Cargo/Tanker

GL Studio is a powerful, intuitive, and object-oriented HMI development tool that enables programmers in any industry to create state-of-the-art, reusable 2D or 3D graphical user interfaces. These interfaces can apply to maintain or replicating even the most complex systems, including military aircraft, cockpit displays, automotive dashboards, process controls, and communications equipment.

To learn more about DiSTI’s virtual cockpits and 2D simulations, please contact Sales@Disti.com.

The DiSTI Corporation, the world’s leading provider of 3D virtual training solutions, announces that STARK Learning, headquartered in the Netherlands, is the newest VE Studio Certified Solutions Partner. STARK Learning specializes in creating innovative digital learning solutions for the industrial, energy, and education sectors.

According to Milan Vogelaar, Managing Director of STARK Learning, “we are experiencing growing demand from enterprise customers wanting to implement virtual and augmented reality technology to improve skills, operational, and maintenance procedural training. To provide scalable solutions that fit our customers’ requirements, we selected VE Studio.”

The initial attraction to VE Studio was the robust feature set and in use by leading Aerospace, Automotive, and Energy companies around the world. After conducting a detailed technical and financial assessment, Stark Learning identified that they could reduce development time significantly while at the same time allowing them to efficiently publish training content across multiple platforms using Unity as the rendering engine. Stark Learning points out that VE Studio enables more efficient and flexible development cycles due to its patented data-driven approach to content creation and management. Reducing cost and development time is a real win-win for their customers and Stark Learning.

Partnering with DiSTI extends STARK Learning’s capabilities to deliver and support scalable learning solutions to industrial, energy, and educational organizations across Europe. The partnership enables both companies to address businesses across the region.

John Cunningham, Chief Revenue Officer of the DiSTI Corporation, cites, “There is growing global demand for virtual and augmented reality solutions and end-users and solutions developers such as STARK Learning are facing challenges when using traditional manual development methodologies. Hand-coded development is time-consuming, not scalable, and expensive. VE Studio’s training development platform approach allows organizations to significantly reduce development costs, use non-software developers to develop content and to scale training across the enterprise on desktop, tablet, VR, and AR technologies. We look forward to working with STARK Learning as our Certified Solutions Partner to address virtual training needs of customers in Europe.”

Virtual training solutions are transforming the power, energy, and industrial sectors. Find out how you can develop your own custom training with VE Studio by contacting Sales@Disti.com.

The DiSTI Corporation, a leading provider of graphical user interface software, and Toshiba Information Systems (JAPAN), provider of advanced embedded solutions, including automotive, today announced their collaboration.

DiSTI’s GL Studio is a comprehensive UI development tool for seamlessly creating cross-platform 2D and 3D user interface content without sacrificing the performance, safety, and reliability required of the embedded system. GL Studio streamlines UI asset creation through implementation readiness in one platform without compromising the original designer’s vision. By consuming industry standards file formats such as Photoshop and 3D Studio Max, the graphic artist drives the user experience while the implementation engineers deploy the embedded system with the UX/UI workflow. GL Studio enables development efficiency reducing the time to market and cost.

The GL Studio runtime library has acquired functional safety certifications for ISO 26262 ASIL D in automotive, DO-178 B/C Levels E to A for aviation, IEC 62304 for Class II medical, and it has proven itself safe and highly reliable. The compact and mature runtime library exercises high rendering performance and low CPU utilization on resource-constrained embedded target systems, enabling developers to run advanced and sophisticated 2D/3D UI on a wide variety of embedded systems.

“Japan is a highly skilled and technical market for embedded technology, and automotive which is a perfect fit for our award-winning GL Studio”, said Christopher Giordano, Vice President of UX/UI Technology at the DiSTI Corporation. “As this collaboration continues to grow DiSTI is honored to be working in close cooperation with such a prestigious company as Toshiba Information Systems (JAPAN) to support the local Japan market.”

The GL Studio design tool supports a series of rapid iteration development processes from product concept to prototype and mass production. The highly functional and flexible WYSIWYG UI development environment promotes cooperation between UI designers and programmers, improving development efficiency to a maximum, making it possible to shorten the time to market.

• Importers that support industry-standard file formats such as Photoshop and 3ds Max
• Native C++ code generators that eliminate the need to write low-level graphical code
• State machine function that enables implementing UI control by drag-and-drop elements
• Settings and tools that can easily customized development workflow, including extensible third-party integration and cross-platform build procedures for One Touch Deployment

DiSTI and Toshiba Information Systems (JAPAN) provide GL Studio and Embedded Development Services to customers in the automotive and embedded systems field in Japan. This partnership allows advanced and sophisticated 2D/3D UI on safety-critical embedded systems, to improve development efficiency, to make them contribute to business development.

To learn more about DiSTI’s strategic partnerships, please contact Sales@Disti.com.

The DiSTI Corporation, the world’s leading provider of graphical user interface software, has expanded its Software VAR contract portfolio to include Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim). BISim is a global software company at the forefront of simulation training solutions for defense and civilian organizations.

“DiSTI is highly regarded as a world leader in simulated instrumentation, and we’re pleased to be able to offer sample instruments to customers in future versions of VBS4 as well as a route for customers to add highly detailed instrumentation,” said Oli Arup, BISim’s Senior VP of Product Management.

VBS4 provides a comprehensive virtual desktop training environment with a whole-earth rendering for tactical training, experimentation, and mission rehearsal. The software performs as a powerful simulation host for any image generator. It offers a massive step-change in modularity, openness, and ease of use. VBS4 features the performance and terrain-enhancing capabilities of BISim’s new engine, VBS Blue. VBS4’s new workflow and capabilities enable users to start training faster, make edits and updates to training scenarios, and terrains with greater ease and collaboration. Using VBS4, users can simulate training scenarios anywhere on the virtual Earth. The VBS Simulation Software Development Kit supports VBS4. SDK provides developers with a library of APIs and source code to customize virtually every aspect of VBS4 and produce custom applications.

For 20 years, The DiSTI Corporation’s GL Studio has been a pioneer in the development of graphical user interface software. As a leader in UI design and the user interface software industry, DiSTI helped set the technological standards for creating high-quality user interfaces. Customers around the world rely on GL Studio’s suite of products to deploy HMIs for their products. Including critical systems in avionics, automotive, transportation, and medical, to maintain their capabilities and have a competitive advantage in the market.

“All of us at DiSTI are very excited to have this new VAR relationship in place with Bohemia Interactive Simulations,” said Christopher Giordano, VP of UX/UI Technology at The DiSTI Corporation, “The integration of GL Studio with VBS4 is key for our mutual customers’ success in Simulation & Training. We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial working relationship with the entire BISim team globally.”

This integration is part of Bohemia Interactive Simulations’ strategy to work with best-of-breed software technology in the simulation market and combines seamlessly with DiSTI’s continued approach of expanding access to its world-class product offerings and solutions.

DiSTI has been a leader in simulation training solutions for over 25 years. To learn more about our avionics, HMI software tools, or virtual cockpits, please contact Sales@Disti.com.

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The DiSTI Corporation, the world’s leading provider of 3D virtual training solutions, announces that Saab, a leading manufacturer of innovative airborne systems has selected VE Studio to build a best-in-class virtual maintenance trainer (VMT) for the company’s Gripen E aircraft.

This selection is the result of a multi-year evaluation process where Saab reviewed numerous technology platforms and development methodologies. Saab selected VE Studio on the basis that it will enable them to create and manage immersive virtual training faster than other methods while significantly reducing their development costs.

Mission demands and enemy threats are rapidly evolving, and the Gripen E is designed to keep pace by addressing those needs with the most advanced technological features and upgradability while reducing the customer’s cost of ownership as the airframe is adapted over time. Similarly, Markus Jellinek, Technical Project Manager of Saab explains, “We selected VE Studio for its ability to enable our team to quickly create and make changes to the training material without having to redevelop the software’s codebase or having to expand our existing team. These elements, combined with DiSTI’s flexible licensing model allows us to scale up or down as our program requires, will save us significant delivery time, give us the flexibility to adapt to customer demands, add new features such as virtual and augmented reality, and control our costs even further.”

VE Studio is a commercially available virtual training development platform that uses a proven database-driven approach combined with end-to-end automated tools to simplify and speed the creation of virtual training solutions based on the Unity rendering engine. Leveraging VE Studio, the Gripen E project management team will be able to train their existing staff, many of whom are not software developers, to use the platform for creating the aircraft’s VMT. This provides them complete control of the training content throughout the aircraft’s lifecycle allowing them to rapidly adapt to engineering, equipment, and procedural changes that take place during the initial deployment, through flight trials, into final customer delivery, and beyond.

John Cunningham, DiSTI’s Chief Revenue Officer highlights, “Saab is a long-time customer and currently uses our GL Studio HMI tool for developing virtual instrumentation in simulators. We are pleased that they have also selected VE Studio to develop the new Gripen E virtual maintenance trainer. Saab can now take advantage of that technology and processes to develop their own virtual maintenance training content at a fraction of the time and cost using traditional manual development processes.” Over the past 15 years DiSTI has developed virtual training solutions for leading Aerospace and Defense organizations and through that experience has developed processes and technologies that have been incorporated into VE Studio, a commercial-off-the-shelf virtual training development platform for desktop, mobile, AR and VR applications.

To learn more about virtual maintenance training solutions or our VE Studio development platform, please contact Sales@Disti.com.

The DiSTI Corporation, the world’s leading provider of 3D virtual training solutions and graphical user interface software, has been awarded a contract N61340-18-D-5007 for the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division’s (NAWCTSD) Training Systems Contract IV (TSC IV) Multiple Award Contract (MAC). The TSC IV MAC, inclusive of all awarded contracts and ordering periods, has a not-to-exceed value of $980,000,000. All delivery orders will be placed pursuant to the procedures at FAR 16.5.

DiSTI was one of 10 small business award winners among the 23 award recipients – significant as it allows these companies to compete on a level playing field among the largest industry defense contractors for services on the contract to provide training device and training systems design, development, production, test and evaluation, delivery, modification, and support. TSC IV’s evaluation included vendor delivery capabilities for virtual and augmented reality technology, opening the door for more SMB contractors that have been driving innovation and leadership in this area.

“Being included on the award validates DiSTI’s well-rounded capabilities to deliver high-quality training programs to the U.S. Navy. I believe we stood out in two ways. First, DiSTI has superior technology in the area of virtual maintenance training; and secondly, our past performance on other government contracts proves we are capable of succeeding. Those two elements combined are really what the Navy was looking for,” said Joe Swinski, President of DiSTI.

DiSTI’s VP of Services, Steve Jackson adds, “Over the past 15 years, DiSTI has consistently delivered operator and maintainer training solutions to the U.S. military and commercial customers. We have the expertise, processes, and technology leadership with developmental tools like VE Studio and GL Studio to deliver cutting-edge training solutions, quickly and economically.”

TSC IV’s objective is to establish a long-term competitively awarded contract vehicle to support NAWC TSD’s acquisition of training system devices, complementary ISD products, and Training Systems Support. Contract deliverables include the development and production of new training systems, modification of existing training systems, and purchasing additional quantities of existing training systems. The pre-selection of award recipients identifies contractors that have demonstrated capability to meet Fleet requirements by shortening training program development and delivery times, delivering high-quality programs to the field, maintain a responsive customer support team, and deliver at reasonable prices.

To learn more about DiSTI’s work with the Naval Air Warfare Center, please contact Sales@Disti.com.

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