Presagis Announces Key Strategic Partnerships
12 December 2005 12:17
Leading provider of VizSim software develops relationships with FATS and AcuSoft to broaden its capabilities and penetrate military markets
Presagis [TSX: EGY], a global leader in visualization and simulation software solutions, today announced two strategic partnerships to help the Company expand its simulation capabilities and fuel its growth in the international military services market. Presagis has made separate agreements with FATS (Firearms Training Systems) and AcuSoft as part of its plan to expand its influence in this sector, and deliver a complete end-to-end visualization and simulations solution to its customers.
“Presagis has immediate product synergies with FATS and AcuSoft, and these partnerships will help us create a notable impact on military simulation and training,” says Patrice Commune, CEO, Presagis. “These newfound relationships are instrumental to realizing our long-term development strategy within the military market, as well as toward enhancing our product suite to meet the evolving needs of our customers.”
FATS specifically will be taking advantage of Presagis' AI.implant™ to give its customers the ability to control the brains of virtual entities in military visual simulations. The technology is commonly used in video games and military simulations to give characters the ability to “think” through their reactions.
FATS, a leading provider of simulated training solutions that improve the skills of military, law enforcement and security organizations, has chosen AI.implant to become its standard real-time artificial intelligence engine which it will be rolling out to the United States Marine Corps worldwide. Under the terms of its agreement with Presagis, AI.implant will be integrated into the FATS line of products, including its Small Arms Trainers, I-FACT (Indirect Fire Forward Air Controller Trainer), and Leadership Trainer.
“The realistic behaviour of entities such as humans and vehicles is becoming one of the key differentiators in our weapons training systems,” said Tom Shirey, Director of Software Engineering, FATS. “Because of the power and flexibility of the AI.implant toolset, we have decided to make it the standard and preferred real-time AI engine for our cutting edge training systems.”
In partnering with AcuSoft, a producer of high-quality visual systems for simulation, training and visualization, Presagis will work to improve the functionality of Presagis' STAGE simulation toolkit. This will be accomplished by integrating AcuSoft’s Military Scenario Development Environment (MSDE) and PowerSTRIPES tools.
STAGE is Presagis' portfolio of commercial-off-the-shelf software products for building simulation-based training systems; avionics test benches, mission planning and rehearsal systems in an integrated or distributed DIS or High Level Architecture environment. Combined with AcuSoft’s Military Scenario Development Environment, STAGE will provide users with a simplified means of designing and developing simulation exercises. In addition, PowerSTRIPES will enable STAGE users to quickly populate Microsoft PowerPoint slides with simulation exercise data for review during or after an activity.
“AcuSoft’s MSDE and PowerSTRIPES tools provide the ideal complement to Presagis' STAGE suite of products,” said Bruce Leistikow, Director, Programs and Business Development, AcuSoft. “Partnerships like these provide long-term value to our customers, and we are looking forward to working with Presagis to further expand our reach in the military simulations and training market.”
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