Rekha Ranganathan, a more than 20-year health care and technology industry veteran, has been named president of CAE’s (NYSE: CAE) health care business. Ranganathan succeeds Robert Amyot, who will continue to serve in an advisory role to facilitate the transition, CAE said Monday. Marc Parent, president and CEO of CAE, …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 12, 2019 — A CAE-built (NYSE: CAE) flight simulation platform for General Atomics‘ Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft has received approval from Italy’s air armaments and airworthiness directorate for use at Amendola Air Base, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. CAE said Feb. 5 its Predator Mission Trainer has been qualified …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 1, 2019 — CAE (NYSE: CAE) will work with General Atomics on a project to provide the U.K. air force a platform designed to train Protector RG Mk1 remotely piloted aircraft operators, ExecutiveBiz reported Jan. 24. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. awarded a contract to CAE to build a …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 11, 2018 — CAE (NYSE: CAE) has developed a big data analytics-powered training system built on Microsoft‘s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Azure Government cloud that will work to deliver real-time assessments of pilot competencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 27. The CAE Rise platform, which is available to the defense market, …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 20, 2018 — CAE (NYSE: CAE) has developed a simulation platform that works to train the pilots of military fighter and fast jets on formation, low-level flight, air-to-air refueling and target identification operations, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 23. The company said Oct. 23 the CAE Medallion MR e-Series Visual …

CAE‘s U.S. subsidiary has landed a potential eight-year, $200M prime contract to provide training services to the U.S. Air Force‘s military transport aircraft crew. The C-130H Aircrew Training System contract contains one base year, followed by seven option periods, and includes management of a training systems support center at Little Rock AF Base …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 4, 2018 — CAE‘s business operations in Germany has been appraised at maturity level 3 under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration process improvement framework, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 23. The company said Aug. 22 Stolberg-based CAE Elektronik secured the CMMI Level 3 rating for development following an independent review …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 16, 2018 — CAE has named John Manley, a former deputy prime minister of Canada and current president and CEO of the Business Council of Canada, as chairman of the board of directors, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday Manley, who has served as an independent director …

CAE’s (NYSE: CAE) U.S. arm has purchased Alpha-Omega Change Engineering for about $29 million as part of efforts to expand work in U.S. security programs and build up its capabilities in training systems integration. “AOCE brings existing contracts as well as past performance in unmanned systems, aircrew training and courseware …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 24, 2018 — CAE has revealed a new helicopter simulation platform at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow in the U.K. that the company aims to offer to military customers for mission and flight training, ExecutiveBiz reported July 17. The company said July 16 the CAE 700 Mission Reality …