Leidos to upgrade US Common Driver Trainer systems
Leidos is to produce technical refresh and concurrency hardware/software upgrade capabilities for the US Army's Common Driver Trainer (CDT) systems, the company announced on 16 January.
The work will be carried out under a CDT Virtual Product Line (VPL) contract awarded by the US Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation. The single award IDIQ contract has a five-year base period of performance followed by two one-year option periods, and an approximate ceiling of $110 million.
Leidos will also provide the US Marine Corps (USMC) with a full replacement of the existing Operator Driver Simulators.
The company will provide a technology refresh and concurrency upgrades to previously-fielded army CDT systems, which provide training on several different vehicle types, including the US Army tank and tank engineering variant, Stryker, Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicles, and tactical wheeled variant families.
The contract includes a complete replacement of all USMC driving simulators, in both fixed and mobile trailer-based configurations, to provide new driver training capabilities across a range of USMC tactical vehicles at multiple USMC sites.
The CDT contract provides training in critical driver or crew tasks that are time consuming, resource constrained or too dangerous to conduct on actual equipment. With the use of a CDT simulator, dangerous or mission-critical training tasks are easily repeated. The new CDT systems maximise training and realism, and deliver more reliable, efficient and extensible driver training.
Related Equipment in Defence Insight
More from Training
-
Royal Jordanian Air Force takes delivery of five new Bell 505 aircraft at Farnborough
The five helicopters complete an order of 10 Bell 505s placed in 2022.
-
NSPA and Airbus sign mission simulator contract for MRTT fleet at Farnborough
The A3330 MRTT simulator is expected to make simulator training easier and more regulator for both pilots and refuelling operatives.
-
Australia’s ‘Top Gun’ exercise in Top End reaches unprecedented scale in face of Chinese military build up
Fast-jet exercise focuses on interoperability and cooperation between allies amid growing regional security concerns in the Asia-Pacific region.
-
US Navy contracts for EW training flight hours awarded
The electronic warfare (EW) jets contract is a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, with work scheduled to begin in August 2024 and completed in August 2029.
-
Rheinmetall receives rocket order from German armed forces for Tiger helicopters
The Tiger attack helicopter was developed for the French and German armies, prior to also being procured by Spain and Australia, with a total of 185 ordered. Germany, however, has planned to retire its 55-strong fleet.
-
How US marines and sailors trained for humanitarian assistance in Indo-Pacific region
US Marine Corps and US Navy personnel enhanced their humanitarian assistance and disaster relief capabilities during a training exercise in Papua New Guinea.