NZDF upgrades Bohemia Interactive Australia’s VBS4
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The award also includes an enterprise-wide license and supplementary development by BIA to ultimately deliver a customized simulation to the NZDF.
The NZDF also contracted BIA to develop an improved representation of the New Zealand Light Armoured Vehicle, and for continued maintenance of its licence of TerraTools, a terrain generation tool used to create high-fidelity, correlated terrain for simulation.
“We are grateful for the trust the NZDF has placed in VBS for the last 15 years. Our commitment to deliver added value continues in our VBS4 release,” said Ryan Stephenson, managing director for BIA. “The NZ Army’s Command and Control Systems School are real power users of simulation tools and have developed considerable expertise in leveraging simulation as a multiplier to produce training effects for their service men and women. We are proud to continue supporting them in their work.”
NATO member nations such as the UK, France, Germany and Sweden, as well as several other customers, have upgraded to VBS4. VBS4 provides major improvements over previous versions, including whole-Earth representation and a faster workflow for content generation.
A wholly owned subsidiary of BAE Systems, Inc., Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) is a global software company providing simulation and training solutions for defence and civilian organisations.
