The United Kingdom’s Royal Navy has awarded QinetiQ a $33.2 million contract to provide an immersive training solution to ensure warfighters’ combat readiness.
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The company’s Maritime Command and Staff Trainer offers a realistic training experience, allowing trainees to glimpse real-life operations and threats on the battlefield.
Under the five-year deal, QinetiQ will extend its range of tools capable of capturing data from the planning, execution and evaluation phases of the exercises. Inzpire, a QinetiQ subsidiary, will lead the design of the MCAST’s training scenarios, which will be powered by the latest simulation technology to enable fully immersive and realistic exercises.
“Our innovative, digital-led approach to training supports the requirements of the Strategic Defence Review to increase warfighting readiness,” said William Blamey, UK Defence chief executive at QinetiQ. “MCAST will ensure that Royal Navy personnel are put through their paces in an environment which reflects the complex, multi-domain and multi-national battlespace of future warfare.”
Besides supplying virtual training solutions, QinetiQ recently extended its collaboration with the British Ministry of Defence under a $2.1 billion contract to modernize the agency’s test and evaluation infrastructure for next-generation warfare.