SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Aechelon Technology, Inc. ("Aechelon") - the leading provider of advanced geospatial and visual simulations solutions - has been chosen to deliver the baseline Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Common Database (CDB) for the U.S. Air Force's Simulator Common Architecture Requirements and Standards (SCARS) program.
The SCARS initiative establishes a unified, open-architecture simulation environment across the United States Air Force, enabling enhanced interoperability, faster integration and cost efficiency in training and operational readiness. Aechelon's database baseline will serve as the authoritative geospatial foundation, ensuring consistency across a wide range of training systems.
"We are honored to be entrusted with delivering the baseline SCARS OGC-CDB database," said Bert Sawyer - Vice President of Strategic Sales for Aechelon Technology. "Our long-standing commitment to database enhancements through use of ML/AI, open standards, visual realism and mission fidelity will help ensure that SCARS achieves its goal of unifying the simulation environment for joint training."
Aechelon's selection for SCARS aligns with the company's broader technology roadmap, highlighted by its recently announced Project Orbion initiative. Project Orbion is the industry's first AI-enabled Digital Twin of the Earth, integrating real-time satellite imagery, radar intelligence, photogrammetry and advanced visualization technologies into a continuously refreshed, physics-accurate 3D environment.
Together, SCARS and Project Orbion illustrate Aechelon's mission to provide the next generation of geospatial services and database solutions, ensuring U.S. and allied forces benefit from the highest fidelity, most correlated synthetic environments available.
Built on Aechelon's Skybeam™ platform, Project Orbion demonstrates the future of Aechelon's database and service ecosystem—delivering global, always-current, and sensor-fused geospatial environments. This initiative not only supports defense customers with mission rehearsal and situational awareness, but also extends to disaster response, emergency management, and autonomous AI system training.
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About Aechelon:
Aechelon is a global leader in simulation and training systems, specializing in geo-specific flight simulators and physics-based sensor AI training. Aechelon's cutting-edge Synthetic Reality (SR) platform replicates real-world environments with unmatched realism, enabling both humans and machines to operate effectively in complex, detail-rich environments. This technology allows pilots and emergency responders to train for complex, high-stakes situations in immersive, ultra-realistic virtual settings.
Developed for the most demanding training, simulation and analysis missions, Aechelon's Synthetic Reality has been the trusted tactical simulation choice of militaries throughout the free world for decades and now brings the same trusted architecture to civilian applications. Aechelon Technology is a Sagewind Capital platform company – please visit www.aechelon.ai for more information.
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