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Yahoo
7 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
SNC and RED 6 Announce Strategic Partnership to Transform Military Flight Training and Operations
Best-in-Class Integrator to Support Red 6's multi-MAJCOM Contract with the US Air Force as First Step in Long-Term Collaboration ORLANDO, Fla., July 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- SNC, a trusted global leader in aerospace and national security, and Red 6, a hardware-enabled software company revolutionizing military flight training, today announced a long-term strategic partnership to develop advanced training and operational capabilities for U.S. military aviation. As a first step in this relationship, SNC will support Red 6 as a subcontractor on their $30 million multi-MAJCOM Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) contract with the United States Air Force, developing comprehensive airworthiness testing and evaluation plans that will enable ATARS integration and drastically enhance pilot training experiences – making it more efficient, more effective, and more easily repeatable. The partnership combines SNC's six decades of experience as a disruptive defense technology innovator with Red 6's groundbreaking Advanced Tactical Augmented Reality System (ATARS) platform that creates realistic synthetic flight training experiences delivered outdoors. By working with one of the world's premier aerospace integrators, Red 6 ensures mission success through SNC's unmatched expertise in rapidly integrating mission-critical systems. "Red 6's revolutionary outdoor synthetic training technology represents exactly the kind of innovative thinking needed to transform military flight training," said Ray Fitzgerald, SVP of Strategy at SNC. "Their ATARS platform's ability to create threat-relevant training scenarios will fundamentally enhance how we prepare our aircrews for operational challenges. This STRATFI collaboration is just the beginning of what we envision as a transformative long-term partnership that will deliver enormous cost savings and significant environmental benefits." "We're incredibly excited about this long-term strategic partnership with SNC," said Daniel Robinson, Co-founder and CEO of Red 6. "Their unparalleled expertise and unique position as a proven systems integrator make them exactly the kind of partner we need to maximize this engagement. But the STRATFI contract is just the beginning - together, we're building something much bigger that will fundamentally change how the military approaches synthetic training across multiple platforms." The collaboration leverages SNC's deep expertise with military aircraft platforms, where they serve as the primary contractor for integrations, upgrades, and conversions, positioning both companies to deliver revolutionary flight training capabilities that can be scaled across multiple platforms. The partnership represents a significant milestone for Red 6, further demonstrating their ability to work with industry-leading integrators to bring cutting-edge training solutions to the warfighter. About SNC SNC is a trusted global leader in aerospace and national security. Our innovative solutions enable connected protection through command, control and communications systems, as well as ISR, cyber, electromagnetic spectrum management, and other high capabilities for national security systems across all domains – sea, land, air, space and cyber. As a longstanding leader in defense technology, SNC is at the optimum intersection of commercial, defense and non-traditional contractors. We are one of the only privately owned mid-tier A&D contractors and we pride ourselves on our ability to invest early and often to ensure mission success on or ahead of schedule. It's part of our mission to always stay one step ahead; working on solutions today to solve the problems of tomorrow. Founded in 1963, SNC is owned by Chairwoman Eren Ozmen and CEO Fatih Ozmen. About Red 6 Red 6 is a hardware-enabled software company solving the worldwide military flight training crisis through the creation of completely realistic synthetic training experiences, delivered outdoors. The company's ATARS platform creates virtual outdoor worlds that deliver threat-relevant, near-peer level training scenarios at speed and scale---affordably increasing safety, easing airspace limitations, enabling next-generation collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) training and providing significant environmental benefits. Media Contacts SNC: Red 6: View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Red 6 Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Axios
21-05-2025
- Axios
Red 6 targets pilot training woes with airborne augmented reality
In a small hangar east of downtown Orlando sits a custom two-seater aircraft hardwired for combat. It carries no missiles under its wings. It has no concealed weapons bay. And it has no refueling probe. It does, however, host the Advanced Tactical Augmented Reality System (ATARS), which can simulate all of the above. The big picture: Training and rehearsal are cornerstones of military success. But it's easier said than done. Services like the U.S. Air Force are plagued by pilot shortages, aging aircraft and availability issues. Historically, there has been an "inability to train against representative threats at scale and at frequency to keep ourselves ready," Daniel Robinson, the CEO of ATARS maker Red 6, told Axios during a visit last week. "We were never, ever, ever going to fix this problem of training using physical assets and pilots and dollars, because we just don't have enough of them." How it works: The ATARS headset projects virtual, interactive objects against the real world, offering users a custom training environment. It works in the air, while flying an actual plane, or on the ground strapped into a mock cockpit. "It's basically a massively multiplayer video game being played outdoors to a very, very high standard," said Robinson, a former F-22 and Tornado pilot. Surface-to-air missile sites perch on the horizon. Missiles zip past your head. Your digital wingman screeches off. Ships glide through the water below. State of play: Red 6's tech is embedded in the T-38. The company, employing about 150 people, is also tinkering with the F-16 and MC-130. It has existing relationships with BAE Systems, Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The intrigue: The sandbox can be quickly updated; it already includes collaborative combat aircraft. The Air Force's competition for them hasn't even concluded. Robinson said he flew against a Chinese J-36 the morning of the media tour. (That aircraft emerged in December, causing quite the online stir.) Our thought bubble: The virtual world can be incredibly useful for visualizing, engineering and testing bleeding-edge weapons and vehicles. Digital twin chatter is more than hype. Zoom out: The Pentagon has long sought accurate, agile simulation. The Army established an entire program executive office dedicated to it and has pursued projects like the Synthetic Training Environment and One World Terrain. Orlando, meanwhile, is home to I/ITSEC, a premier modeling-and-simulation defense conference. The bottom line: "The whole premise was: Let's try to solve training in the air for the Air Force, in a way that's novel, that no one else has done," said Brandon Harris, the company's vice president of operations and chief pilot.
