Army orders medical simulators.

The U.S. Army ordered 44 medical simulators from San Jose, Calif., touchtechnology maker Immersion Corp.

The devices, costing an average of $15,000, help train medics to draw blood and insert intravenous lines. The contract was awarded in August and deliveries were due in September. Immersion's 42-person office in Gaithersburg, Md., was able to fulfill the order within three weeks, said a company statement.

Immersion makes the CathSim vascular access simulator. CathSim combines software, a catheter interface device and a personal computer to create training scenarios that exhibit realistic human tissue interaction such as bleeding and resistance. The...