RAF Digitalises Training for P8 Poseidon

The Royal Air Force has partnered with Aquila Learning Ltd to implement a new digital training solution for the Poseidon P-8A Maritime Patrol Aircraft at RAF Lossiemouth.

With efficiency, ease of use and MODNet connectivity being key requirements, the P8 Poseidon Force required a system that would bring innovation and automation to their training management commitments, allowing them to do more with less, but maintain high standards and compliance.

Aquila’s ALaRMS training management system was chosen as the winning solution in a competitive tender and entered service with the P8 Poseidon Force in January 2019, alongside delivery and support partner Copernicus Technology Ltd. A 75% saving in time to conduct complex role analysis and training analysis has been reported.

Mark Corden, who leads the DE&S P-8 Training effort, said: “To have undergone the very challenging MODNet approval process under the pandemic circumstances is an enormous credit to teamwork of all parties from a myriad of Defence organisations and our commercial partners of Copernicus Technology and Aquila Learning.”

The ALaRMS system harnesses all requirements of Defence Systems Approach to Training (DSAT) through Analysis, Design, Delivery and Assurance, with the added benefit of linking the training system to the safety and risk systems.

Mark Radbourne, MD of Aquila Learning and the brains behind ALaRMS, said: “Over the past 18 months we have seen the huge benefit that ALaRMS brings to Defence in the pursuit of optimised training management and assurance. The seamless link that ALaRMS provides from Analysis to Design to Delivery to Assurance, can now be fully exploited with MODNet connectivity. This digital link makes ALaRMS (and the training data it manages) available to multiple stakeholders for the first time, increasing efficiency, effectiveness and safety across the entire training pipeline of a capability, individual or team.”

Following a rigorous qualification process led by the P-8 delivery team at Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S), ALaRMS is now available for P-8 staff on the Defence Intranet System MODNet, and can in future, be accessed by other Defence organisations that purchase licenses.