Truth in Training for the High-End Fight
When it comes to air combat readiness, the need to close proficiency gaps and retain tactical, operational and strategic superiority against a peer competitor has never been greater. Cubic delivers over 50 years of air combat training experience to address these challenges, ensuring the warfighter receives training to prepare them to - DOMINATE TOMORROW.
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Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation (ACMI), A modular approach to delivering advanced training BETTER, FASTER and at LOWER COST
With over 50 years of experience developing the ACMI, Cubic Defense remains the world leader in providing “truth in training” to the U.S. DoD and its Allies. By leveraging modular and software upgrades to its best-in-class TCTS I / P5CTS ACMI pod, we continue to deliver this indispensable capability at a fraction of the cost of other “new build” solutions.
P5 System Security Upgrade (SSU) is a contracted field modification to existing P5/TCTS pods to provide encrypted ACMI to 4th Gen USAF aircraft for <10% of the cost of alternatives. P5 SSU encrypted signals are directly compatible with Cubic’s F-35 P5 Internal Subsystem (IS) providing untethered Level II interoperability with the F-35 fleet.
Secure LVC Advanced Training Environment (SLATE) pod is a proven TRL 7+ pod modification that provides Synthetic Inject-to-Live (SITL) Live Virtual Constructive (LVC) training capability to 4th Gen and rotary wing U.S. DoD platforms. With multiple, successful technical demonstrations—most recently at exercise Valiant Shield 24—SLATE is the only mature blended SITL LVC solution on the market that provides mass, complexity and guising necessary to emulate today’s peer adversary.
Stop by booth 127, see our scaled SLATE pod with internal component views, demonstrating the modular approach to delivering a Fleet-wide ACMI uplift.
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Train Like You Fight
With over 50 years of Air Combat Training System (ACTS) experience, Cubic is well-versed in fielding systems with backwards compatibility and futureproofing in mind. Cubic continues to deliver enhancements to the P5 Combat Training System (P5CTS) system for the USN and USAF, including P5 System Security Update (P5SSU), ensuring training continuity across seven production blocks, including the F-35 P5 Internal Subsystem (P5IS).
The Cubic P5 SSU is a contracted field modification to existing P5 pods to provide encrypted ACMI to 4th Gen P5 pods for the USAF for less than 10% of the cost of alternatives. Testing of the P5 SSU updates has progressed extremely well, and Cubic began fielding the first SSU field upgrade kits in late 2024. P5 SSU encrypted signals are directly compatible with Cubic’s F-35 P5 IS providing untethered Level II integration. Cubic has delivered over 1200 F-35 P5 IS systems and remains the only Air Combat Training System option available for at least the next 3 years. The fielding of P5 SSU in combination with P5 IS enables a new level of training integration between 4th and 5th Generation Aircraft and enables protection of Tactics, Techniques and Procedures at home station or abroad.
Providing Synthetic Inject-to-Live (SITL) Live Virtual Constructive (LVC) for all Mission Phases
As lead system integrator, Cubic has proven the ability to inject synthetic entities from human-operated simulators (Virtual) and computer-generated-forces (Constructive) into live cockpits: platforms, weapons, and effects across the electromagnetic (EM)/infrared (IR) spectrums. In addition to technical demonstrations on DoD ranges, Cubic has now successfully delivered a Joint MILS NSA Type 1 encrypted SITL-LVC solution using IEEE Open Standard protocols and the U.S. Government owned 5G-ATW waveform through the Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE) for real-world operations, training, and test west of the International Dateline.
SITL-LVC is an available, high TRL solution for the DoD and our partners/allies to achieve a decisive training advantage against a pacing peer threat for 4th- and 5th- generation platforms. Cubic, along-side industry partners and government have proven that SITL-LVC can be achieved with minimal investment in technologies available today.
As an enabler to SITL-LVC, Cubic’s SLATE (Secure Live Virtual and Constructive Advanced Training Environment) pod is a TRL7+ proven and tested solution that provides SITL-LVC in addition to traditional aircraft instrumentation capabilities. The SLATE pod has flown more than 180 sorties in four contrasting operating environments on three different 4th generation platform types (i.e., F/A-18E/F, EA-18G, F-15E, F-16C, and X-62A). SLATE supports threat realistic blended training environments where live operating platforms combat displays are augmented with injects from simulator and computer-generated forces.
The SLATE pod improves and is built upon the original P5 CTS / TCTS I tube assembly with a modified internal core. New components include a KOV-135 encryptor, software defined radio (SDR) and LVC Processor that provides advanced live training with dense threat environment and realistic cockpit presentation (advanced guising). SLATE was used during the DARPA X-62A Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program and the Valiant Shield 2024 exercise. P5/TCTS I pods can be SLATE modified at a lower cost point than new production pods in development.
SPEAR – Accelerating the Multi-domain OODA Loop
Cubic’s Simplified Planning Execution Analysis and Reconstruction (SPEAR) common data model (CDM) represents a generational leap forward in live monitor and debrief capability from its predecessor—the Individual Combat Aircrew Display System (ICADS).
SPEAR rapidly gets beyond the “what happened?” and addresses the “why did it happen?” by providing contextualized data and imbedded analysis, thereby accelerating the OODA loop in multi-domain training, test and operations. By providing optimized displays of kinetic and non-kinetic effects in the multi-domain environment, SPEAR reduces cognitive burden and facilitates deep analysis.
Additionally, SPEAR permanently captures both objective and subjective data to create a time-synchronized mission log for post-even debrief and long-term training syllabus optimization. Thanks to its server/client architecture, geographically dispersed users are able to access the same SPEAR mission by simply logging into a single program, authenticating via credentials and accessing common “workspaces”—thereby enabling a single mass debrief from numerous ashore and afloat locations.
SPEAR has proven its utility at numerous recent DoD and Partner Exercises, to include Valiant Shield, Red Flag, Checkered Flag, Cobra Warrior, Cope North, Slingstone and Talisman Saber.
Make time to see a demonstration of the SPEAR CDM at booth 127.
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