Cubic Awarded $42 Million Contract to Continue Mission Support Services at U.S. Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center
March 16 2017 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Cubic Global Defense to fulfill U.S. Army’s
mission support requirements with live, virtual and constructive
training services
Cubic Global Defense (CGD), a business unit of Cubic Corporation
(NYSE: CUB), today announced it received a contract award worth
more than $42 million from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to
support live, virtual and constructive (LVC) training services for
the Joint Readiness Training Center’s (JRTC) Operations Group at
Fort Polk, Louisiana. Cubic will support rotational and
pre-deployment training exercise requirements from April 1 to
August 24, with Phase Out requirements from August 25 to October
23, 2017.
Under the contract, Cubic will continue to assist the JRTC with
integrating U.S. and allied forces into rotational training
exercises through scenarios focused on Decisive Action and
theater-specific operational environments. These exercises are high
fidelity, capstone training events conducted at the U.S. Army
Brigade Combat Team and U.S. Army Special Operations Forces
Operational Detachment B level. These types of exercises are
conducted for units targeted for deployment in support of ongoing
military operations overseas and include situational training, live
fire, force-on-force and integrated (LVC) training. Cubic will also
provide expanded Role Play, technical support for combat training
instrumentation, battlefield effects, video and cultural role
players (foreign language speakers). U.S. Air Force Close Air
Support and Air Mobility units will be fully integrated into the
play of each exercise.
“Cubic has served the JRTC since 2001, assisting the Army in
training more than 149 brigade combat team and over one million
soldiers,” said Bill David, vice president and program manager of
JRTC, Cubic Global Defense. “Ensuring readiness is critical for the
Army’s combat teams, and so we appreciate the continued confidence
the U.S. Army has in Cubic and our program teams’ ability to
deliver exemplary service.”
“JRTC has a reputation of offering excellent realistic training
to our warfighters and Cubic looks forward to continuing the
delivery of enhanced mission readiness and NextTraining solutions
to the U.S. and allied armed forces,” said Dave Buss, president of
Cubic Global Defense.
JRTC is one of the U.S. Army’s Combat Training Centers that is
focused on providing realistic, enhanced collective training
experiences at the Brigade Combat Team level. The center trains
light infantry, air assault, airborne and special operations units,
including rangers; and hosts various rotational training exercises
involving all other U.S. military forces.
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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