by Deb Fullford, VP of Sales and Business Development
31 years ago (on September 4th, 1994), I started at MAK. A few days later, I found myself in SAIC’s Warbreaker facility working with Dan Brockway to create the Warbreaker Terrain. Back then, terrain generation was a painstaking manual process which often resulted in geo-typical terrains reassembling operational areas (who remembers MAKLand 😊).
by Jim Kogler, VP of Products
MAK ONE 2025 release season is upon us, and we're excited to announce that we’ve officially released MAK RTI 5.0, which supports the new IEEE 1516-2025 standard that the community has affectionately named HLA 4. I'll include HLA 4 and MAK RTI highlights below, as well as a link to detailed product release notes, but first, a bit of history and trivia.
by Len Granowetter, CTO
As the AI revolution has heated up, I’ve often been asked: “How is MAK leveraging this new technology? What is MAK’s AI strategy?” I’d like to share how I typically answer this question:
Our AI strategy has three prongs:
Let's say you're a solutions engineer and you've been tasked with creating a helicopter door gunner simulator. You’ve been using VR-Engage in many roles (helicopter pilot, LAV driver, UAV sensor operator), but there is no Door Gunner role for helicopters and you're unsure where to start actually building it. You know how to use the existing roles within VR-Engage and have an idea about how VR-Engage uses a big library of components that make up those roles… but putting it all together to create this custom role seems daunting.
By Ross Uhler, Director of Strategic Business Development and former Air Force Lt. Col.
Aircraft and precision weapons rely on GPS as part of their integrated navigation systems. As a C-130 navigator, our systems used a combination of GPS, INS, doppler, and my own calculations to confirm the aircraft’s position. However, we had no way to train in a GPS jamming environment to learn how first to identify jamming was occurring and then adjust our navigation systems accordingly.
