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Army Awards $190 Million In Prototype Deals For Synthetic Training Environment’s Software Backbone

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, June 17th, 2019

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Army Awards $190 Million In Prototype Deals For Synthetic Training Environment’s Software Backbone

Soldier using a virtual vehicle trainer during a recent Synthetic Training Environment assessment at Ft. Riley in Kansas. Photo: STE CFT

The Army on Friday awarded two prototype awards, totaling nearly $190 million, for vendors to develop the software backbone of the service’s future live and virtual networked training capability, the Synthetic Training Environment (STE). Software firm VT MAK, a subsidiary of VT Systems, and Vricon, a Saab and DigitalGlobe joint venture, each received deals to build separate components of the STE Common Synthetic Environment (CSE), with the aim of delivering an initial operational capability by September 2021. “The Common Synthetic…

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