Cubic’s SPEAR Demonstrates Operational Capabilities at Checkered Flag 21-1 Exercise
November 25 2020 - 7:02AM
Business Wire
Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions’
Simplified, Planning, Execution, Analysis, Reconstruction (SPEAR)
software suite improves training effectiveness for aircrew
Cubic Corporation (NYSE:CUB) today announced its Cubic Mission
and Performance Solutions (CMPS) business division’s Simplified,
Planning, Execution, Analysis, Reconstruction (SPEAR) software
suite was successfully operational at the Checkered Flag 21-1
exercise. Revolutionizing the world’s most complex and advanced
Air-to-Air exercise, SPEAR is Cubic’s follow-on solution to its
Individual Combat Aircrew Display System (ICADS), that has been the
combat air forces’ live monitor and debrief system for two
decades.
Checkered Flag brings deployed aircrew to Tyndall Air Force Base
(AFB) to train with aircrew stationed at Tyndall and the
surrounding Gulf Coast bases. This Checkered Flag included Joint
and Coalition aircrew from the United States Air Force (USAF),
United States Navy (USN) and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF),
flying fifth and fourth generation fighters, acting as both blue
forces and adversaries.
“Building on our extensive multi-domain experience, Cubic now
also delivers to the warfighter a Common Data Model (CDM) for
multi-domain data, in a game-changing common operational picture,”
said Mike Knowles, president of CMPS. “For the entire exercise,
every Checkered Flag 21-1 mission used SPEAR for both live
monitoring and debrief.”
SPEAR delivered both technical and operational ease for the
Range Training Officers (RTOs) and site administrators through a
streamlined user experience that enabled over 75 aircraft to train
and fight at once. The Air Force’s SPEAR hardware was installed in
the course of a single day, highlighting the ease of setup and
networking with modern software code while adhering to local
security requirements. With only two hours of training, the Tyndall
site admins and white force were able to ingest data, create a
mission in SPEAR, manage their mission archive, operate the SPEAR
server and provide training to USAF RTOs.
“As demonstrated by results at Checkered Flag and Red Flag, we
are seeing increased demand for the ability to effectively assess
and adjudicate kinetic and non-kinetic effects, especially when we
look at the importance of multi-domain operations,” said Jonas
Furukrona, vice president and general manager of LVC Training,
CMPS. “We have already secured a sale to a coalition partner for
this capability and believe SPEAR will set a new standard in
ensuring operator readiness.”
SPEAR improved training effectiveness by collating and
displaying kinetic and non-kinetic effects in a coherent way using
predictive and proactive real-time analysis, which is incorporated
into the common data model. Additionally, the RTO’s ability to
adjudicate events and effects with SPEAR accurately, with 75
aircraft in the air simultaneously and hundreds of weapons fly
outs, significantly reduced the shot validation time post flight.
Upon landing, aircrew were able to review and correct their weapons
data to 100 percent, directly on a SPEAR client at the same time as
others, due to unlimited independent “channels” in each
mission.
According to Captain “Bullet” Gedman, a Checkered Flag RTO and
F-22 pilot stationed at Tyndall, “With that capability, SPEAR
produced a complete and effective playback of when, how and what
happened, leaving the majority of the debrief time to figure out
why it happened. In fact, SPEAR reduced the average debrief time by
90 minutes.”
Checkered Flag missions produced terabytes of valid,
operational, enriched SPEAR data consisting of objective data,
subjective data, kinetic data and non-kinetic effects, for a
holistic post mission analysis. The enriched data set can now be
used to evaluate Checkered Flag training effectiveness, design
future exercises and provide exercise staff with important evidence
for future upgrades.
About Cubic Corporation
Cubic is a technology-driven, market-leading provider of
integrated solutions that increase situational understanding for
transportation, defense C4ISR, and training customers worldwide to
decrease urban congestion and improve the militaries’ effectiveness
and operational readiness. Our teams innovate to make a positive
difference in people’s lives. We simplify their daily journeys. We
promote mission success and safety for those who serve their
nation. For more information about Cubic, please visit
www.cubic.com or on Twitter @CubicCorp.
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