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Cubic Wins
Recompete to Provide Support
To U.S. Army’s National Simulation Center
New contract expands services to include LVC integration and
JNTC experiments
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – November 1, 2004 – The defense
segment of Cubic Corporation (AMEX:CUB) will stay in the
forefront of development of the U.S. Army’s next-generation
of computer-based simulations under a follow-on Indefinite
Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) firm fixed-price contract.
The contract, which has a ceiling value of $95 million over
five years, is for support to the U.S. Army’s National
Simulation Center (NSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
With Cubic’s continuing support, the NSC provides
the Army with state-of-the-art simulations and simulators
to support training events and military operations worldwide.
The NSC is the Army proponent for the joint forces community
on behalf of simulations, and has overall responsibility
for combat development, testing and fielding, new equipment
training, maintenance, sustainment and post deployment
software support of simulations.
Tom Coleman, NSC program manager for Cubic’s Training
and Education Division, said this new five-year contract
increases the scope of Cubic’s two previous NSC contracts
with the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC).
Under those contracts, awarded in 1995 and 2000, Cubic’s
team helped the Army develop requirements for the latest
constructive computer-based training simulations.
The new contract expands those efforts to include helping
to develop virtual training simulators and developing requirements
for Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) training systems for
the Army and the Joint community. This process will include
interacting with soldiers in the field, including those deployed
to Iraq and Afghanistan, to determine their training needs.
Cubic and the NSC will also assist in defining Joint National
Training Capability (JNTC) requirements, conducting JNTC
exercise experiments, and integrating LVC training systems
into Army and joint combat training.
“Cubic will play a prominent role in the current U.S.
Army initiative to integrate live, virtual and constructive
training systems,” said Jim Balentine, senior vice
president of the Mission Support Business Unit of the Cubic
Defense Application group (CDA).
. Cubic is already in the vanguard of LVC integration. During
a training exercise this summer at Fort Lewis, the Army
instrumented one unit of soldiers with Cubic’s MILES 2000 laser-combat
training system while other units participated in constructive
computer-based simulations or virtual training environments.
The soldiers were successfully tracked using a new Cubic
mobile training command and control system similar to the
system now being installed at the Army’s Alaska Training
Range.
The Cubic Defense Applications group (CDA), the defense
segment of Cubic Corporation, provides realistic combat training
systems for military forces, as well as mission support services
for training and exercises, modeling and simulation, force
modernization, leadership development, curriculum design
and development, web-based learning solutions and operations
and maintenance services. The group also supplies products
and systems for C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications,
Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance)
applications, search and rescue avionics and radio communications
for military and civil markets. Cubic Corporation's other
major segment, Cubic Transportation Systems, designs and
manufactures automatic fare collection systems for public
mass transit authorities. For more information about Cubic,
see the company's Web site at www.cubic.com.
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