ST Engineering Antycip (Antycip), a provider of simulation and virtual training solutions, has signed an enterprise agreement with the UK Royal Air Force (RAF). The multi-year contract provides enterprise-wide access to advanced simulation technologies, designed to strengthen mission readiness through scalable synthetic operational training across a growing number of air programmes.
Supported by Antycip’s sister company MAK Technologies, a provider of software for military training and defence, the agreement marks a major evolution in Antycip’s long-standing partnership with the RAF. Antycip says it establishes a unified simulation architecture that will underpin a wide range of distributed, high-fidelity training environments across RAF operations.
The MAK ONE platform enables RAF teams to build and adapt their own simulation environments in-house, thanks to the development toolkits. According to Antycip, the open, modular approach safeguards the Ministry of Defence’s control over its intellectual property, a key requirement for long-term sovereignty and interoperability.
Under the terms of the agreement, RAF personnel, across nominated programmes, will gain full access to the MAK ONE simulation suite, along with delivery, deployment, and frontline support across multiple RAF sites and mission domains.
Katie Howe, senior account manager at Antycip, said: “This agreement represents a significant milestone in our collaboration with the RAF. It’s so much more than providing powerful tools, it’s about establishing a long-term, flexible simulation framework that evolves with the RAF’s operational ambitions.”
Group captain Ruari Henderson-Begg, chief modelling and simulation officer (Air Command, or Air), added: “As MAK’s suite of products are widely used across Air’s suite of synthetic training systems, an enterprise agreement ensures cost-effective access to this core software for our users and supports development of JSP939-compliant software. Moreover, the flexible and comprehensive service offered by MAK and Antycip ensures that the service can grow with our needs and that users have access to the training they need to get the most out of each application.”
Jim Kogler, vice president of products, MAK Technologies, added: “We’re really proud to partner with the amazing team at Antycip to support the RAF’s evolving training mission through this enterprise agreement enabling a common, flexible synthetic architecture. Based on open APIs and open standards this allows best of breed solutions from all over the M&S space to work together to meet the RAF’s evolving needs.”
