WEB EXCLUSIVE: Army Abruptly Terminates Squad Advanced Marksmanship Trainer Contract
4/27/2020
By Stew Magnuson
In a surprise move, the Army has ended a program that was using high-fidelity simulators to train soldiers in small arms skills.
The Army through its service-run media had been touting the Squad Advanced Marksmanship Trainer — a stopgap system intended to be used until 2023 — as a means to boost soldier lethality. But an Army headquarters spokesman told National Defense on April 24 in an email that the multi-year contract was being ended and money redirected to other training-and-simulation programs.
The magazine received a tip from a reader that SAM-T had fallen victim to the Army’s so-called night court proceedings, where leaders are looking at every Army program to find funds that can be redirected to its top six modernization priorities. The Marine Corps was also a partner in the program.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2020/4/27/army-abruptly-terminates-squad-advanced-marksmanship-trainer-contract
