The HIRE Vets Medallion Award is the only federal-level veterans’ employment award that recognizes a company or organization’s commitment to veteran hiring, retention, and professional development. ABSI is please to announce that we are recipients of the Gold Medallion for 2020, and honored to employ so many of those who have (and do) serve!
ABSI Holds Virtual 5k – Raises Over $2k for the Wounded Warrior Project ABSI Aerospace & Defense, an aviation services, training and T&E company located in the Patuxent River region, just concluded their first company virtual 5k. “Given the current climate, bringing the team together for an actual event wasn’t a possibility,” said Nancy Smay, Director of Communications. “But our company culture is really important to us, and we wanted to find an event that would offer employees the same feeling—of doing something good while sharing an experience.” The effort succeeded in raising…
ABSI’s Flight Training is Innovative Unique Powered by Machine Learning Experiential ABSI SecondSky: The Next Frontier of LVC Flight Training (Part Two) ABSI Aerospace & Defense is building on the idea of virtual flight training, helping to make flight training more repeatable and efficient. It’s called SecondSky, and one part of the SecondSky solution is a mixed-reality flight simulator that uses machine learning to build scenarios that student pilots can fly repeatedly to build skills before entering the actual cockpit. “Simulators have been around for a long time,” Allee, Chief Technology Officer for…
ABSI’s Flight Training is Innovative Unique Powered by Machine Learning Experiential ABSI SecondSky: The Next Frontier of LVC Flight Training There has been a lot of discussion over the past years throughout the tech community about Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) training, and this concept has applications to the goals of both DoD and commercial organizations. ABSI Aerospace & Defense is building on the idea of virtual flight training, helping to make flight training more repeatable and efficient. Prior to beginning a discussion of LVC, however, it is worth noting first that these terms…
ABSI’s ISD Team Innovates Pivots Shares ABSI’s ISD Team is Well-Positioned to Help Clients Continue Training through Covid-19 – Part Two There’s no escaping the fact that Covid-19 has forced a change into many industries. And while the virus is undisputedly a bad thing, change is not always negative, even when it’s hard. Last week’s story offered some philosophies we use in offering training to clients remotely. This week, our ISD experts offer some concrete tips for employing distance learning in your own organization. Read Part One here. If you are trying to…
