Finmeccanica‘s AgustaWestland, yesterday announced it has recently been awarded a contract by the European Defence Agency (EDA) to conduct a six month Helicopter Tactics Program (HTP) Implementation Study. Financial terms were not disclosed.
This contract follows an EDA award made in November 2008 for AgustaWestland to conduct a six-month feasibility study into HTP for nations deploying on multinational operations.
As part of the U.K.-France helicopter initiative, the EDA has taken the lead in coordinating training among its participating member states. The HTP Implementation Study is a key part of the initial work, the company said. It includes a training analysis across all participating member states, establishing a common operational task list for support helicopter crews deploying on operations.
In addition, the study will seek to catalogue and quantify total training capability and capacity within participating member states, as well as identifying best-practice methodology for adapting to lessons learnt from operational theaters.
Drawing on experience from the previous feasibility study, this work will also outline an initial training syllabus. The study will conclude with an analysis of the potential training needs within member states’ support helicopter crews, and provide cost options for addressing any shortfalls in training capability.
AgustaWestland provides professional training services to a wide range of military, commercial and industrial customers around the world.
AgustaWestland is committed to offering the best training services as essential enablers in the delivery of mission capability to operators, the company said. The “A. Marchetti” Training Academy in Italy and Training Academies located in Philadelphia, U.S.A., and in Yeovil, U.K., use the latest e-learning, part-task maintenance and procedures trainers through to full mission and state-of-the-art Level D flight and mission simulators, the company said.