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).