Pitch will exhibit at the SISO SIW conference in Orlando, USA on 26-29 March together with our North American distributor Aegis Technologies.

Visit us for a demo of our new iPad user interface. We are proud to sponsor the SISO Smackdown demonstration together with NASA. You are also welcome to join our traditional HLA Lunch on Wednesday 28 March were we offer the latest product news together with a free lunch.

GeoConcept is announcing support for HLA Evolved in GeoConcept Defence. Starting from version 7.0 and onwards, users of this product can now benefit from an HLA Evolved interface created by GeoConcept using Pitch Developer Studio. GeoConcept Defence is a complete GIS solution to process, visualize and communicate with defence based training systems. The new HLA Evolved interface will be demonstrated by GeoConcept during a seminar in Paris on the 28th of March 2012.

We are happy to announce the new release of Pitch Commander™ that provides full support for more platforms than ever before. 64 bit Windows and Linux and Mac OS X are now officially supported and the DIS configuration has been much improved. This release also contains a lot of fault tolerance improvements and optimizations for large installations, for example when parts of the network is temporarily unavailable due to service, upgrades or failures. Pitch Commander works particularly well over wide area networks when used together with Pitch Booster.

This release is now available at no extra cost for all customers with a valid maintenance contract.

During the last I/ITSEC conference, Presagis announced that the 2011 Most Valuable Industry Partner award goes to Pitch Technologies. The Most Valuable Industry Partner award recognizes partners who have excelled in delivering exceptional value to the industry over the course of the year. Pitch products will be integrated in STAGE, thereby enabling interoperability between STAGE and other HLA compliant products and solutions. For more information, see the Presagis announcement.

Pitch is opening up an office in Paris, France. To celebrate this and to showcase some HLA Evolved success stories from a few of our customers, there will be a seminar organized on Wednesday the 16th of November. The seminar takes place at the Holiday Inn Paris-Velizy and it starts at 13:30. Partner presentations include demonstrations by Presagis, MASA Group, Thales Training & Simulation, Barco and Cassidian.

To sign up for the seminar, click here.

We are happy to announce the release of Pitch Developer Studio™ that generates object oriented middleware for C++ and Java. The new version adds support for HLA Ownership Management, while maintaining backwards compatibility. It also adds optimizations for large federations and support of Mac OS X. It also generates code that can access a federation using the HLA Evolved Web Services API.

This version is now available at no extra cost for all customers with a valid maintenance contract.

Pitch presents a new product at ITEC: The Pitch Extender™. It creates a bridge between two HLA federations. This enables you to mix different RTIs, HLA versions, FOMs and solve performance problems. This product has been used extensively by selected customers over the last years. Contact us or visit our booth at ITEC for more information.