NCS General News

The 2013 NCS Golf Tournament was held on May 3, 2013 at Stoneybrook East Golf Club.  All proceeds were donated to the Vince and Beth Amico and Henry C. Okraski Scholarship Funds.  The Vince and Beth Amico Scholarship for Modeling & Simulation awards $5,000 annually to the University of Central Florida.  The Henry C. Okraski Scholarship in […]

by Richard Burnette Orlando Sentinel, May 12, 2013 Alice F. Hayden, 36, is president and co-founder of H2 IT Solutions Inc., a small defense firm in Orlando and a top award winner in the 2013 GameTech/Federal Virtual Challenge. She spoke recently with Orlando Sentinel staff writer Richard Burnett. CFB: What has winning a national “serious […]

Join Congressman John Mica for an update on what’s going on in D.C. When: Monday, 20 May 2013 Where: Partnership III, Room 321 A/B 3039 Technology Parkway Orlando, FL 32826 Registration: 7:30 – 8:00 a.m. Main Event: 8:00 – 9:30 a.m. Expect him to address the budget battles and the authorization and appropriation process for […]

Read about Gametech in the Orlando Sentinel   http://www.orlandosentinel.com/os-cfb-tech-serious-gaming-0429-20130428,0,1529046.story

In an Oversight and Government Reform hearing, Congressman John Mica (FL-07) questioned Mr. Humberto Medina, Assistant Director, ICE, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, about the lack of utilization of simulation to train federal security personnel. You can see the exchange at this link. http://youtu.be/rcmmHUtaZsY  

Government Absent from GameTech By LAUREN BIRON Curious what effect sequestration is having on training? Thus far, it has produced a government-industry conference without the government. The annual Defense GameTech Users’ Conference started Wednesday in Orlando, Fla., but members of the gaming and commercial industries found themselves without the audience they hoped to connect with. […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35 ORLANDO) – Central Florida’s training-simulation industry is lobbying leaders in Washington to spare them from closures and spending cutbacks over the next decade. There are over a hundred companies in east Orlando that produce military simulations and employ thousands of people locally.  The people behind the simulations in Orlando say […]

By Keith Landry, Reporter – Fox 35 It’s video game technology for national defense.  The program called Virtual Battle Space Two, allows special operations units to custom design and then repeatedly rehearse an assault on a military installation.  It’s the type of training that could help reduce casualties in North Korea in a worst case […]

The Navy League of Central Florida is proud to sponsor the 4th Annual Wounded Warrior / Lone Sailor Memorial 5K Run. Where: Baldwin Park “Downtown” area- 5K route around historic Lake Baldwin When: Saturday, April , 2013 0730 Colors Ceremony 0800 Run Start www.cfnl5k.org

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) North Florida Office is pleased to announce the SBA’s 2013 North Florida Small Business Week District winners. The 2013 SBA North Florida District Small Business Person of the Year is Andre Uribe.  Mr. Uribe is the Vice President of Power Grid Engineering, LLC (PGE), located in […]

Employer Withholding:  In addition to withholding Medicare tax at 1.45%, employers, beginning in 2013, must withhold an additional 0.9% Medicare tax from wages paid to an employee in excess of $200,000 in a calendar year and continue to withhold it until the end of the calendar year.  The 2013 version of Form 941 (Employer’s Quarterly […]

March 5, 2013 RealTime Immersive Licenses CryENGINE® to U.S. Navy for Littoral Combat Ship Courseware Development Program RealTime Immersive Inc., a simulation and serious games company, announced that the U.S. Navy, Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD), has licensed CryENGINE® to build a virtual representation of each class of the Littoral Combat Ship […]

Orlando, FL – March 7, 2013.  ZelTech Training Solutions, LLC of Winter Park, Florida, has entered into an exclusive marketing and manufacturing license agreement with Koos Technical Services, Inc. (KTS) of Lake Mary, Florida.  ZelTech Training Solutions will exclusively provide the KTS Agility Military Radio (AMR) to the worldwide Military Training and Simulation market.  Additionally, […]

Selling D.C. on local simulation industry By Richard Burnett, Orlando Sentinel 12:49 pm, March 3, 2013 Central Florida’s training-simulation industry sent a lobbying team of industry and community leaders to Washington last week, just before the deadline for the federal deficit-reduction deal known as the sequester. And while the sequester’s $1.2 trillion in cuts over […]

Orlando Sentinel Editorial Our take: Computer modeling, training and sim industry March 6, 2013 Pre-emptive strikers If medals were awarded for foresight, leaders of Orlando’s computer modeling, training and simulation industry would deserve to be decorated.  As the Sentinel recently reported, a delegation representing the local industry went to Washington, D.C., last week to tout […]

Congressman John Mica organized an Industry leader visit to Capitol Hill to engage elected officials on the impact of potential sequestration cuts on the defense Industry in Florida and the possibility of another round of Base Realignment & Closure (BRAC) in 2015.  Participants included:  Jim Craig, LMCO & NCS Board Member; Dr. Mike Macedonia, SAIC & NCS […]

By Bill Orben Orlando Business Journal U.S. Rep. John L. Mica, R-Fla., has organized a series of meetings in Washington, D.C., Feb. 26 aimed at boosting Orlando’s $3 billion simulation and training industry and blunting the impacts of possible defense cuts. Mica, Tom Baptiste, president of the National Center for Simulation, and local business and […]

By Scott McDonnell ORLANDO — It’s a deal that could save 40,000 to 80,000 jobs for Floridians.  On Tuesday, President Barack Obama, called on Congress to act and cut a deal the avoid $85 billion in spending cuts on the first of March. Gen. Tom Baptiste, a retired Air Force general and president of the […]

Engineering and Computer Simulations in Orlando thinks they have the solution to ensuring the next cruise ship disaster is handled better. The plan is to provide simulator training to essential crew members for fire procedures, evacuation drills, missing persons, and flooding. Read more about how simulation training can help mitigate future disasters at sea:http://www.wogx.com/story/21237089/orlando-simulation-company-offers-cruise-ship-disaster-training

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Gov. Rick Scott awarded a $350,000 grant to Orlando’s National Center for Simulation on Monday. The center will use that money in an effort to keep Central Florida’s Naval Support Activity Base from moving or closing — a move that would have major economic consequences for the state.Florida’s simulation industry, with […]