MASA (technologies)

December 2006 - SCIPIO is operational
SCIPIO is now fully operational and has been validated by the French Army as the new platform for command posts exercise at Brigade and Division levels. Developed in co-operation with THALES Land & Joint, the system is deployed at Mailly Camp, where it replaced the US system BBS ™ (Brigade Battalion Battle Simulation).

March 2006 - A semiconductors veteran joins MASA BlueKaizen’s management team
Michel Gaouyer has joined MASA as head of BlueKaizen’s semiconductor business, which provides software solutions for enhancing process control, metrology, testing and yield management. Mr Gaouyer has more than 16 years’ experience in the industry, and his main tasks will be to improve BlueKaizen’s product solutions for the semiconductors industry and to increase sales with major international companies and OEM partners

March 2006 - ATMEL and MASA at the AEC/APC European Conference, 29-31 March, Aix-en-Provence, France
ATMEL, a world leader in designing, producing and selling integrated circuits and semiconductor components, will join forces with MASA to present the first results of the European R&D collaboration project HYMNE to the AEC/APC conference. The conference will be attended by the leading European players in the semiconductors market. The presentation will include the extension of BlueKaizen solutions to cover parametric testing in front-end manufacturing.

January 2006 - Scipio installed in Mailly
The Scipio system has been installed at the French Army’s training and command centre in Mailly, and is now operational.

January 2006 Forthcoming events for MASA-SCI
  • 31 January - 2 February 2006: Journées de l’Arme Blindée Cavalerie (French Army tanks and cavalry sessions) - Saumur, France
  • and 9 February 2006: Simulation Training and Synthetic Environments - London, UK
  • 2 March 2006: Conference featuring Emmanuel Chiva at the Paris Military School: New trends in crisis management through simulation
  • 31 March – 1 April: ‘Action in exceptional circumstances’, part of the ‘Collective action and decisions in exceptional circumstances’ conference held to mark the 30th anniversary of the Military Mountaineer Group (GMHM), Grenoble, France