Tue, Nov 04, 2003
CAE's MH-47 and MH-60 Sims Coming Soon, to Spec Ops
Desktops
The U.S. Army Program
Executive Office - Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation
(PEO-STRI) has selected CAE USA to provide desktop trainers (DTTs)
and a reconfigurable part-task trainer (PTT) for the MH-47G Chinook
and MH-60K Black Hawk helicopters operated by the 160th Special
Operations Aviation Regiment - Airborne. [Operationally similar to
the UH-60 unit shown (right).]
The initial delivery order, valued at approximately US$5
million, calls for CAE to design reconfigurable MH-47/MH-60
part-task and desktop trainers. CAE and the U.S. Army are currently
in alpha contract negotiations on a delivery order for a MH-47G
combat mission simulator (CMS) and a MH-60K CMS. (If CAE is awarded
these additional trainers, the total value is expected to be
approximately $85 million.)
"We said a year and a half ago when we won our first program
with this customer that we were committed to a long and productive
relationship with the Army's Special Operations Forces," said John
Lenyo, CAE USA's president and general manager. "CAE's innovation
and cutting-edge technology will play a critical role in ensuring
the soldiers of the 160th receive the highest- fidelity and most
realistic mission rehearsal and training possible. We're honored by
this selection to continue our role as the mission rehearsal and
training partner for the Army's elite Night Stalkers."
CAE is currently building the world's first A/MH-6 Little Bird
CMS for the 160th SOAR(A), which will be delivered to Ft. Campbell
(KY) in the summer of 2004.
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