About Us

Raydon Business Model VideoRaydon Corporation is the leader in innovative simulation training products and solutions.

We are the top provider of convoy trainers to the United States Armed Services, and the largest domestic commercial source of novice driver trainers. The company was established in 1988 in Daytona Beach, Florida by Ray Hockney (retired), and current owners Don Ariel and Dave Donovan. In 18 years Raydon has grown from three to 300 employees in executive, administrative, engineering, manufacturing, hardware and software design, and advanced technology capacities.

Raydon is an unconventional player in the simulation training arena. Our designs are grounded in economical platforms-a range of hardware delivery systems-that support integrated operation and rich training content. Our approach is to provide great training to everyone that needs it. So rather than produce Lamborghinis for a few, we are the Toyota of our industry.

The company strives to bring affordable simulation training solutions to a variety of audiences: corporate, government, education and military. In an effort to forward this philosophy, Raydon both sells and rents its trainers, making its advanced training available as a full-service contract.
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Disruptive technology sets Raydon's trainers apart from the competition. Driving down the cost per training seat has allowed Raydon to advance our training technology to include the latest innovations available today including technology such as:
  • CAV-T (Combined Arms Virtual Training), affordable networked mounted, dismounted, and air support forces in a single virtual environment with accurate, geo-specific detail,
  • Head-Mounted-Displays (HMDs) that provide users the spherical, 360-degree field of view (see our FOV Video) essential to the recognition, assessment, and response skills that protect and enable warfighters, and
  • Table-Top trainers with the same database views and Methods of Virtual Instruction (MOVI) as our highest maximum skills trainers. These table-top versions provide the training required to master computer-based interactive skills before engaging team exercises as well as portability and economy.
Raydon is about saving lives-It is our vision. It is our mission. It is our passion.

Whether that means training America's children for the dangers of our highways or preparing our Nation's warfighters for missions in foreign lands-the objective is the same - Bring them home safely.