Lockheed Martin To Support Combined Arms Tactical Trainer

Lockheed Martin has won a $17 million contract from UK MoD to extend its support to its Combined Arms Tactical Trainer (CATT).

CATT, the virtual training system, is based at the Land Warfare Centre in Warminster, the company announced today.

BAE Systems will also provide support services for the contract.

The CATT, which uses an immersive, computer generated environment to train up to 450 military personnel on a virtual battlefield, has been used by the Army since 2001. It was a key element of pre-deployment training for soldiers preparing to serve in Afghanistan.

Lockheed Martin will provide new training scenarios and content for the CATT to help prepare Army personnel until 2018.

"Since the inception of the UK CATT program in 2001, we've helped the British army prepare more than 100,000 service members to accomplish their operations," said Jim Weitzel, vice president of Training Solutions for Lockheed Martin.

"Extending these capabilities into the CATT program will boost complexity and realism, making it the most demanding and intensive ground training system personnel can use to ensure they are mission-ready." Weizel added.

The largest virtual training system, CATT is run jointly by the Lockheed Martin team and the MoD.