Cubic Awarded $35 Million from the British Army for Area Weapons Effects Simulator Systems Training Support
May 04 2017 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Cubic Global Defense continues to support live
training at two key UK training bases with state-of-the-art ground
combat training systems
Cubic Global Defense (CGD), a business unit of Cubic Corporation
(NYSE: CUB), today announced it received a contract award worth
more than $35 million to continue supporting the British Army. The
three-year contract allows Cubic to deliver services and repair to
the Area Weapons Effects Simulator (AWES) at Salisbury Plain
Training Area (SPTA) in the United Kingdom and at the British Army
Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) in Alberta, Canada.
“Cubic has worked with the British Army for nearly 15 years
providing industry-best ground combat training solutions for its
warfighters,” said Dave Buss, president of Cubic Global Defense.
“Our U.K. customer is very important to us and this award extends
the work we have accomplished together to advance the British
Ministry of Defence’s training experience and standard.”
AWES allows the British Army to conduct large-scale,
force-on-force combat exercises with realistic, but simulated
effects of direct fire, artillery, mortar fire, mines and
air-delivered munitions as well as nuclear, biological and chemical
weapons. AWES also tracks and monitors the actions and positions of
more than 1,400 individual soldiers and 250 vehicles using GPS
technology. It also records “hits,” “kills” and “misses” of
small-arms fire with Cubic’s Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement
System (MILES) technology and recreates combat exercises for
post-mission analysis.
Cubic developed and installed the AWES system under a contract
awarded in 1998. Installation work was completed at the 150-square
mile Salisbury Plain training area in late 2002 and the following
year at BATUS, a sprawling 1,100-square-mile training area that the
British Army leases from the Canadian government for combat
exercises.
About Cubic Corporation
Cubic Corporation designs, integrates and operates systems,
products and services focused in the transportation, defense
training and secure communications markets. Cubic Transportation
Systems is a leading integrator of payment and information
technology and services to create intelligent travel solutions for
transportation authorities and operators. Cubic Global Defense is a
leading provider of live, virtual, constructive and game-based
training solutions, special operations and intelligence for the
U.S. and allied forces. Cubic Mission Solutions provides networked
Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence,
Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities for defense,
intelligence, security and commercial missions. For more
information about Cubic, please visit the company's website
at www.cubic.com or on Twitter @CubicCorp.
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