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Army Awards Prototype Deal For Synthetic Training Environment’s Simulators

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, July 1st, 2019

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Army Awards Prototype Deal For Synthetic Training Environment’s Simulators

Photo: STE CFT.

The Army has awarded Cole Engineering Services, Inc. (CESI) a potential $81 million prototype deal to provide the simulators for the service’s future live and virtual networked training capability, the Synthetic Training Environment (STE). Army officials wrote in a June 28 notice that CESI was selected from a total of 11 vendors proposals, and was the single company to offer a comprehensive solution for both air and ground virtual trainers. The Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Trainers (RVCT) will replace legacy simulators,…

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