General News

Hyperion Systems Engineering, the leading independent solutions provider to the global process industries, announces the successful delivery of two high fidelity Operator Training Simulator systems for the Gasoline Hydrotreater Unit and the Isomerization Unit at Slavneft-Yanos refinery in Yaroslavl, Russia. These systems were delivered in partnership with KIPmontage.   In addition, Hyperion  also delivered to Linde an Operator Training Simulator for the ethylene plant of ONGC Petro-additions Ltd. (OPaL), in Dahej, India. The OPaL Dahej plant will be India’s largest ethylene plant, and the center of a larger petrochemical complex.

These two installations represent how the modeling and simulation industry are making significant advances into manufacturing and refining.

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The federal government will make a significant investment to improve the accuracy of an Orlando-based super computer's capability to forecast weather to include hurricanes.  To learn more, click on the two articles below:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/05/15/game-changing-improvements-in-the-works-for-u-s-weather-prediction/

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-orlando-weather-supercomputer-20130526,0,6666419.story

The 2013 NCS Golf Tournament was held on May 3, 2013 at Stoneybrook East Golf Club.  All proceeds were donated to the Vince and Beth Amico and Henry C. Okraski Scholarship Funds.  The Vince and Beth Amico Scholarship for Modeling & Simulation awards $5,000 annually to the University of Central Florida.  The Henry C. Okraski Scholarship in Simulation Technology & Robotics awards $2,000 annually to Daytona State College.

Mother Nature gave us a beautiful day for golf and we're so appreciative of the sponsors, players and volunteers that helped make this day a success! Take a peek at some of the fun!

Congressman John Mica visited NCS offices on May 20 and spoke to over 100 NCS members and guests.  A number of topics were covered including the possibility of a round of BRAC and sequestration.  Rep. Mica urged everyone to contact their congressional representative to let them know the importance of the modeling and simulation to our nation and our local economy.

In the photo are Lt. Gen. Tom Baptiste (USAF, Ret.), President and Executive Director of the National Center for Simulation, Congressman John Mica and Congressman (Ret.) Lou Frey.

by Richard Burnette

Orlando Sentinel, May 12, 2013

Alice F. Hayden, 36, is president and co-founder of H2 IT Solutions Inc., a small defense firm in Orlando and a top award winner in the 2013 GameTech/Federal Virtual Challenge. She spoke recently with Orlando Sentinel staff writer Richard Burnett.

CFB: What has winning a national "serious gaming" contest meant for you and your company?Well, first of all, we've gotten a whole lot of resumes from graphic artists, software engineers, developers and gamers — a lot of people who want to work for us now. It's been pretty exciting. We do want to hire a couple of people for some logistics contracts we'll be working on this summer. And we believe the gaming side of the business is going to grow even more as the government uses more virtual training to save money during the budget crisis. So we expect we'll also be doing some more hiring later this year as new work comes in.

Read about Gametech in the Orlando Sentinel

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/os-cfb-tech-serious-gaming-0429-20130428,0,1529046.story

In an Oversight and Government Reform hearing, Congressman John Mica (FL-07) questioned Mr. Humberto Medina, Assistant Director, ICE, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, about the lack of utilization of simulation to train federal security personnel. You can see the exchange at this link.

http://youtu.be/rcmmHUtaZsY