Cubic Defense Awarded $5.75 Billion US HCaTs Training Contract

Cubic Corporation has been awarded $5.75 billion contract for Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS) from the General Services Administration (GSA) in partnership with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

Under this contract, Cubic Global Defense, (CGD), a subsidiary of Cubic Corp will have to provide customized training and employee development, human capital strategy and organizational performance improvement services across the federal government at all levels. The base contract duration is for five years with an additional exercisable five-year option period, the company said in a statement Tuesday.

With this contract, the government will have direct access to CGD’s organizational planning and transformation; force structuring; modeling and simulation experience; as well as game-based, virtual, immersive and neuroscience-based training and development capabilities.

HCaTS is considered to be the first government-wide human capital solution using category management, an enterprise-wide approach to acquiring goods and services used in private industry and by other government agencies.

HCaTS contracts will allow federal agencies to take an efficient and innovative approach to their workforce and training requirements. The GSA will handle administration of the contracts while OPM will manage the programs.