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Army Accelerates Timeline For First Synthetic Training Environment Awards

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, February 5th, 2019

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Army Accelerates Timeline For First Synthetic Training Environment Awards

A Stryker vehicle commander interacts in real time with a Soldier avatar that is operated remotely from a collective trainer. (U.S. Army photo)

The Army announced Tuesday it will award the first contracts for its Synthetic Training Environment (STE) program a month earlier than was previously announced to ensure the program meets its target data for initial operational capability. Other Transaction Authorities awards for the Common Synthetic Environment (CSE) and Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Trainer will arrive in May and June, respectively, both ahead of schedule. “We identified an opportunity to further expedite our award schedules to mitigate risk of meeting the 2021 IOC…

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Unmanned Systems

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