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.

A new version of Pitch DIS adapter™ is now available. It adds support for more PDUs, like Radio, Emission and Designator. It has also been tuned for even bigger exercises. This version is freely available to all customers with a valid maintenance contract.

Pitch provides technical expertise through the Swedish Defense to the NATO group MSG-080. This group develops new solutions for security issues in collective mission training, both joint and combined. A first white-paper has now been presented at the recent SISO conference in Boston. The paper is available for download from our papers section.

Pitch Technologies is proud to announce that Björn Möller, Vice President and Mikael Karlsson, Product Architect at Pitch have received SISO’s Technical Merit Award. The price was presented during the SISO Simulation Interoperability Workshop in Boston, 4-8 April 2011. This price is awarded in recognition of technical excellence in the development of standards and has so far only been awarded to three persons.

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Following last year’s success of the completely revised Pitch Visual OMT 2.0, Pitch is proud to present a new and even more productive version. New features include automatic generation of fully cross-referenced PDF documentation of object models. HLA 1.3 object models can now be automatically migrated to HLA Evolved in one step using our new import function. It now includes even more analysis and optimization, as well as tools for quality-checking of the resulting HLA Evolved FOM.

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During the SISO conference in September 2010 Pitch presented a paper about processes and tools for the management and reuse of the HLA Evolved FOM Modules. This paper describes the philosophy behind the recently released version 2.0 of Pitch Visual OMT. Download the paper from our papers section.

Pitch Visual OMT 2.0, the first OMT tool with proper support for FOM modules according to the HLA Evolved standard is now released. This release will be free to customers with a valid maintenance contract for Visual OMT™ 1516. More information about the product including screenshots can be found here.

Pitch has received a SIWzie award for the recent paper “Object-Oriented HLA - Does One Size Fit All?”. It was ranked number one on the “Recommended Reading List” from the SISO Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop 2010. The full list of papers is available here. 

This paper covers theoretical and practical aspects of middleware that gives Object-Oriented access to HLA-based federations. It also summarizes some experiences and challenges from developing the COTS Product Pitch Developer Studio, that generates C++ and Java code for HLA federates.

The paper can be freely downloaded from our Papers section. More information about Pitch Developer Studio is available here.

IEEE has officially published the new version of HLA, code name “HLA Evolved”, formally named IEEE1516-2010 on 18 August. The new version contains a large number of new features and improvements.

Pitch Technologies is dedicated to support this new standard and has already released a full set of products that supports this standard. 

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Pitch pRTI and Booster products were selected by Astrium GmbH to update the distributed simulation system for the ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European space industry led by Astrium GmbH. The HLA-based system will be deployed between the Astrium GmbH facilities in Bremen (Germany), ATV Control Centre in Toulouse (ATV-CC, France) and Mission Control Centre in Korolev near Moscow (MCC-M, Russia). It is purposed to facilitate training of the ground controller teams at both centres starting from May 2010.

ATV spacecraft is providing logistics and orbit control to the International Space Station (ISS) and is a key ESA contribution to the ISS programme. The first ATV performed its flawless space mission in 2009, while the second spacecraft is currently scheduled for launch at the end of 2010.

On March 25 the HLA Evolved standard was approved by the IEEE Standard Activities Board. Pitch is now proud to announce a full range of products that supports the official version of HLA Evolved. Pitch pRTI™ fully supports the HLA Evolved services. Pitch Visual OMT™ supports the HLA Evolved OMT Format. Pitch Developer Studio™ generates object-oriented middleware in C++ and Java that supports the HLA Evolved format. Runtime products such as Pitch Recorder™, Pitch Commander™, Pitch Google Earth Adapter™ and Pitch DIS Adapter™ also support HLA Evolved. Note that the HLA Evolved standard is formally known as IEEE 1516-2010.

Pitch participated at the presentation about HLA and Model-based product development at the MODPROD Workshop, Feb 8-10 2010 at Linköping University, Sweden.

Open interoperability standards, like HLA, can significantly improve the process in distributed engineering. This includes more powerful product and concept development and experimentation, reduced cost and risk and not the least, faster time to market for complex technical products.

Read more about MODPROD at http://www.modprod.liu.se

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.

Welcome to a joint seminar between Pitch, Artisan Software and TESS-COM in Rome and Milan. We will cover HLA Evolved and Connecting Simulators.

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).

This version adds a number of minor updates, fixes and new interesting features.

Pitch has just released a major upgrade to the Pitch Commander™  product. Among the new features we would like to highlight the new scripting functionality.

Visit our Stand : E120 and watch our demos of Enterprise Wide Simulation, HLA Evolved products, Integration and Development tools as well as integration with Google Earth.

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Our course covers interoperability architecture, HLA object modeling as well as practical HLA programming with labs. Seats are still available.

Welcome to see our products at the SISO Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop in Providence, Rhode Island 14-18 April. We will exhibit together with AEgis Technologies and show our entire product family. 

This spring we released version 1.0 of a product that has already been widely demonstrated across the world.

Welcome to see our products at the SISO Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop in Orlando, Florida, Florida 15-20 September. We will exhibit together with Aegis Technologies and show our entire product family. 

We are proud to showcase our new product Pitch Developer Studio at the upcoming Simulation Interoperability Workshop (SIW) in Orlando, Florida, Florida 15-20 September

Pitch Latest Paper Proceedings of 2007 Euro Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Interoperability Standards Organization, June 2007. Download here

Meet Real VIZ at the IVR 15th Industrial Virtual Reality Expo & Conference 27-29 June 2007.

Get to know our current and upcoming tools that enable your simulations to work together!

If you are visiting the SISO workshop in Norfolk on 25-30 March, don’t miss our "HLA Lunch". Get to know our current and upcoming tools that enable your simulations to work together!

You are welcome to download the free pRTI 1516 Limited Edition both for Windows and Linux. It is a full and certified implementation of the IEEE 1516 standard.

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We have had an excellent year 2006 with new products, many new customers and increased sales.

We are very proud to announce that Staffan Löf and Björn Möller, Pitch Technologies were placed on the first place with their paper "A Management Overview of the HLA Evolved Web Service API".

Unleash the power of multi-channel data recording using the 1516 standard. HLA Recorder lets you record, playback and inspect data in a more powerful way than ever before.