Enterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
By BREAKING DEFENSE
on April 11, 2024 at 10:15 AM
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A U.S. Army joint forward observer gathers coordinates for attack helicopters on Besmaya Range, Forward Operating Base Hammer, Iraq. The JFOs performed refresher training by identifying targets and providing grid coordinates for a variety of aircraft to attack. (U.S. Army photo by Photo by Spc. Gary Silverman)
The U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) is recompeting its Training Aids, Devices, Simulators and Simulations (TADSS) operations and maintenance contract and expanding its scope to include enterprise training-related services for live, virtual, constructive capabilities under a new program called Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions (W-TRS).
In this Q&A, HII Mission Technologies’ Mike Waterman, business area director, and John Bell, technical director, LVC Solutions, discuss how the company’s work on the U.S. Navy’s Continuous Training Environment (NCTE), which includes more than 1,200 secure, interconnected nodes across the U.S. and partner nations, and the Navy Integrated Training Environment (NITE), which combines operations of live training ranges with virtual and constructive environments, would translate to the W-TRS program.
Breaking Defense: What necessitates the need for the W-TRS program?
Waterman: PEO STRI has the challenge of managing a growing network of systems such as training networks and live ranges to create an increasingly effective training environment that addresses the needs of the warfighter. How this applies to W-TRS is that the scope of the program will include more than operations and maintenance of their training aids and devices currently supported on the Army TADSS Maintenance Program (ATMP).
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