Team Fisher, the Capita-led consortium including Raytheon UK, Elbit Systems UK, Fujitsu, the University of Lincoln, and several smaller British suppliers, has successfully met the six-month milestone in its 12-year programme to transform and modernise the Royal Navy’s shore-based training across 16 sites.
Leonardo DRS will provide advanced air combat training systems to Draken Europe in support of Draken’s program to support operational readiness training for the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.
Novatech Ltd., a tech firm that helps drive training and simulation, has furthered its connection with the forces by joining the Armed Forces Covenant.
After covering Gladiator in Issue 3/2020, the Royal Air Force’s synthetic training initiative, MS&T Europe Editor Dim Jones explores the Royal Navy’s equivalent programme.
MS&T readers will be aware of the plans for the future of synthetic training in the Royal Air Force under the Defence Operational Training Capability (Air) (DOTC(A)), also known as Gladiator. Similarly, the Royal Navy is looking to transform the way it trains its people and also the way in which it mans and deploys its forces. The Defence Operational Training Capability (Maritime) (DOTC(M)) is key to this transformation. I visited the home of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth to learn more from the RN and industry about plans for the maritime equivalent.
Cubic Corporation’s Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions business division won a contract to deliver a P5 Combat Training System ground subsystem with live monitoring.