I/ITSEC 2016: UK selects VBS3 – at last

30th November 2016 - 12:16 GMT | by Trevor Nash in Orlando

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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has selected Bohemia Interactive Simulations’ (BISim's) Virtual Battlespace 3 (VBS3) as the winner of its Defence Virtual Simulation (DVS) requirement.

DVS will be the UK MoD’s common virtual simulation tool that BISim says will, ‘provide interoperable, accessible and deployable virtual simulation capability across the MoD’. The DVS capability will enable simulated activity across all levels of training, including live and virtual simulation, education and experimentation.

This long-running requirement has resulted in a solution that most realised was the obvious choice from the start, but UK procurement rules demanded an open

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