Up to $387M to GDIT to Support US Army’s Constructive Training Systems
Feb 15, 2010 17:01 EST
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a Fairfax, VA-based unit of General Dynamics, received a contract for Constructive Training Systems (CTS) support by the US Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI).
The potential value of the 5-year indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract is $387 million if all options are exercised. The initial award value is $56.9 million for the base year.
Under the contract (W900KK-10-D-0002), General Dynamics will provide technical, management and professional engineering support services for the procurement and fielding of CTS…
GDIT will deliver engineering, integration, exercise and experimentation support, gaming, materiel purchases, maintenance, supply support and post-fielding support to PEO STRI and the Project Manager for Constructive Simulations (PM ConSim). The work will be managed in the Orlando, FL area.
The programs supported through the contract include:
- Battle Command Training Capability – Equipment Support (CBCSE), which provides network, equipment and technical tools that enable the integration of Army constructive simulations;
- Common Battle Command Simulation Equipment (CBCSE), which provides commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software products in support of the JLCCTC; and
- Joint Land Component Constructive Training Capability (JLCCTC), which is a software modeling and simulation capability that provides unit commands and their staff the capbitel to train in a constructive environment from battalion to echelons above corps.
According to a GDIT release, the company will also provide CTS support for the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command, and the Combined Arms Command and Control Upgrade System.
