DULLES, Va., Feb. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon
Company (NYSE: RTN) and its partner team along with the U.S. Army
are testing a new training instrumentation system that helps enable
and improve home station training by blending live, virtual and
constructive training domains across widely dispersed geographic
locations.
This new capability, called the Joint Pacific Multinational
Readiness Capability Instrumentation System (JPMRC – IS), consists
of an integrated system of deployable shelters, communications
hardware and software that is used to train Army units based on a
high fidelity exercise against a thinking opponent.
"This new system gives us opportunities to maintain readiness in
ways that provide great flexibility while maximizing scarce
training resources," said Bob
Williams, Raytheon Global Training Solutions vice
president. "We recently completed a rehearsal with the
JPMRC-IS involving more than 400 Soldiers across several Hawaiian
islands, and it felt and worked exactly like a full rotation at one
of our Combat Training Centers."
The JPMRC – IS can be easily transported, is capable of
continuous, 24-hour a day operation for weeks at a time, and can
extend the training battlespace across physical boundaries by
linking units, sites and trainers in real time. The
instrumentation system collects and stores specific,
scenario-focused information on performance, then aids the exercise
controllers in monitoring the exercise, analyzing the performance
data, and preparing and presenting detailed performance feedback to
the exercise units. The exercise participants obtain direct
feedback on how they executed their missions, and lessons learned
on how to improve performance.
Raytheon will test the JPMRC – IS this month during a multi-unit
exercise in Hawaii called
Lightning Forge. This Initial Operating Capability event will
demonstrate the ability to perform distributed operations as part
of a two-battalion exercise on Oahu and the island of Hawaii.
Raytheon leads the Warrior Training Alliance (WTA), a team of
more than 150 partner companies that provides training support to
the U.S. Army around the world on the Warfighter Field Operations
Customer Support (FOCUS) contract. Through Warfighter FOCUS,
Raytheon and the WTA have helped save the U.S. Army more than
$300 million in maintaining more than
240,000 training aids, devices and simulators. The WTA
also helps train U.S. Army soldiers, allied and coalition partners
around the world. Click here to learn more about the Raytheon-led
Warfighter FOCUS program.
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2014 sales of $23
billion and 61,000 employees worldwide, is a technology and
innovation leader specializing in defense, security and civil
markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning
93 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission
systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing;
effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence
systems, as well as cyber security and a broad range of mission
support services. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. For more about Raytheon, visit
us at www.raytheon.com and follow us on Twitter @raytheon.
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