Pitch is proud to announce even more support for making current and legacy systems work together, for example when integrating Live, Virtual and Constructive systems. One new feature of Pitch Commander 2.1 (available in April 2009) is the ability to monitor DIS systems in parallel with HLA systems. Monitor applications, simulated objects and data (PDU) production. Read more.

The new graphical user interface for Pitch Booster gives you full insight into your enterprise network, be it a corporate simulation network or a national training network. Discover and monitor which federations that are available in your enterprise, which RTIs that are running and which hosts and applications that are connected.  Read more.

After almost twenty years as President and CEO of Pitch Technologies (Pitch) Staffan Löf has decided to leave his operational duties and move on to work with strategic market and business development. In his new role as Senior Adviser he will continue to work closely with Pitch and other companies within BAE Systems to further develop business within areas such as Infrastructure, Simulation and Training. He will also serve as a member of the Board of Directors of Pitch.

Staffan will be succeeded by Stefan Sandberg. Stefan has a previous employment with Saab Aerosystems where he, from having a leading role in the design and development of the Gripen training system, have been working with business development and marketing of training systems. Stefan already has an established contact network and lots of experience from the simulation and training market. With that background and his congenial personality Stefan is very well positioned to lead Pitch into the future. Stefan will formally join Pitch the first of May.

Pitch Technologies together with colleagues from SAIC, AEgis Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University/Software Engineering Institute and Johns Hopkins University/Advanced Physics Lab. have received a SISO SIWzie award for the paper “HLA Evolved – A Summary of Major Technical Improvements”. This paper was ranked as number one. Download it from our “Papers” page.

Pitch is pleased to announce version 1.5 of Pitch Visual OMT™ that supports HLA Evolved. This is a first step in our increased support for FOM Modules, a key feature of the new standard. Migrate your FOMs to the HLA Evolved standard and split existing monolithic FOMs into handy FOM Modules with the click of a mouse.

Rail traffic safety is one of the new areas where HLA is being used as a powerful and scalable architecture for multiple simulations. Read the paper (PDF).