ACME Worldwide Simulation and Simulator Projects
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KC-10
Refueling Boom Operator Trainer: The
United States Air Force has long used aerial-refueling simulators
to train and certify KC-10 Extender Refueling boom operators. The
simulators, known as the Boom Operator Trainers or BOT, have
received a wide range of independent upgrades and modifications
to keep the trainer operational and effective. Although
the trainer remained functional with the upgrades, the basic
obsolescence of the trainer’s technology was not addressed
and over time, the simulator, suffered from supportability issues. In
addition, a large recent effort to update the system with high
fidelity models of selected receiver aircraft to regain certifiable
performance did not achieve the intended utility for actual training
use. The compounded problems of supportability and sub-par
fidelity decreased the inherent value of the simulator and a
change was crucial. More
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KC-135
Air-Refueling Trainer: At
present, there are only two KC-135
boom operator trainers available to
the Air Force. The two trainers were
originally developed in 1978 with a
visual system upgrade in 1990. Due
to a variety of circumstances, one
of the two trainers was out of service.
As a consequence of the age of the
trainers and the limitation on trainer
availability, tremendous pressure rested
on a single, fragile resource. More
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Special
Operations Forces ATARS: Lockheed-Martin
Information Services (L-M) is the prime
contractor for a comprehensive Air Force
contract logistic support (CLS) contract
for the Special Operations Forces called
ATARS, Prime Contract# F42630-00-C-0206.
The CLS support is for the Air Force
Special Operations training centers at
Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, Hurlbert Field,
and Eglin AFB, Florida. The two centers
have numerous fixed and rotary wing simulators
as well as other types of simulators.
ACME is a prime subcontractor to Lockheed-Martin
in the support and modification of the
trainers at Kirtland AFB. More
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Naval
Air Maintenance Trainer (NAMT) Rework
Program: ACME was responsible
for addressing maintenance trainer
discrepancies across the entire spectrum
of Navy maintenance training devices.
The ACME effort to address these discrepancies
includes: a) Evaluation of Navy maintenance
trainers to ascertain trainer status. b)
Repair of existing trainers to address
faulty equipment, obsolete parts, or
out of tolerance trainer performance.
The trainer repair has included fabricating
obsolete components, reverse engineering
to identify currently available parts
and components, and re-designing trainer
unique printed circuit boards. c)
Refurbishment of trainers to ... More
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P-3
Orion Air Conditioning and Pressurization
Trainer: The
US Air Force P-3 Orion Air Conditioning and Pressurization trainer
project was essentially an upgrade of an old trainer. The
old trainer was designed around relay logic,
timing cams, and a back lit wood and plastic transparency. The IOS (Instructor
Operator System) interface to the P-3 trainer involved a series of switches and
knobs. Much of the functionality of the old trainer was lost due to low
reliability components and unavailable replacements. More
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US
Army Train Simulator: The
US Army maintains a large fleet of
locomotives and rail vehicles throughout
the United States to facilitate the movement of equipment and supplies. It
also provides engineers for overseas operations, both in times of war and peace. Before
LETS, the Army was forced to use simulators owned by commercial railroads, or
even take equipment off the line to provide training and certification for their
engineers. The decision was made to procure training devices owned, operated,
and dedicated to training Army personnel. for the Transportation Command’s
school at Ft. Eustis, VA: This was particularly advantageous in that the locomotive
cab, trains, and locomotives could be tailored to Army specification, rather
than just taking what was available and often mis-matched in the civilian world. More
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Raytheon
Hawker 800: This program was
a trainer development project. ACME
was responsible for the design, development,
fabrication, and testing of a Level
C Full Flight Simulator (FFS) cockpit
assembly for a Raytheon Hawker 800/800XP
business jet. The cockpit assembly
consists of the cockpit with avionic
displays, primary and secondary flight
controls, a supporting base frame,
instrumentation and cabling, control
loading system, and the signal I/O
system. More
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Eclipse
500 Engineering Simulator: This
program was a trainer development project. Using
a customer supplied aircraft hulk as
well as other components, ACME designed,
developed, tested and delivered the
hardware for an engineering simulator
for use in the development of the Eclipse
500 business jet and integrated the
hardware with the customer supplied
software. ACME responded to an
Eclipse inquiry to build the trainer
and was under contract in less than
30 days. More
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F-16
Dodecahedron: Because
of other successful work for Lockheed
Martin Information Systems (L-M), ACME
was approached by L-M personnel from
the Luke AFB simulation facility because
of difficulties they were experiencing with a ground based partial dome (mini-dome).
Subsequent to the contact, a design consulting contract was initiated by L-M
whereby ACME mechanical design engineers would investigate and report on the
installation and maintenance problems L-M was experiencing with the mini-dome.
ACME sent a team of engineers to the Luke AFB Web Design and conducted a thorough investigation
into the existing design. Included in the investigation was the development of
a 3-D model of the mini-dome so that finite element and modal analyses could
be conducted. More
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Comanche
Dynamic Seat : ACME
designed Dynamic Motion Seat Systems to provide the motion cues
for the RAH-66 Comanche Mission Simulator. The seats were
representative of the actual Comanche aircraft seat in appearance
as well as function. More
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WSMR
High Speed Carrier: The
development of a High Speed Aerial
Cable Carrier (Carrier) for White Sands
Missile Range (WSMR) was initiated
with a one page statement of objectives,
a verbal briefing by ACME identifying
a technical approach, and contract award. All the activities
occurred within 30 days. More
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