$162.7M to L-3 to Support US Army’s Kuwait Observer-Controller Team
at Udari Range, Kuwait
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L-3 Communications’ MPRI division received a $162.7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee follow-on contract to support the US Army Central Command’s Kuwait Observer-Controller Team program.
Under this award, MPRI will provide training for US and Coalition forces at the Udari Range in Kuwait as a subcontractor to Raytheon. The initial contract period is for 7 months and includes 2 option years that would extend it to April 2012.
MPRI has been providing training services in Kuwait since 1999, including force-on-force training at the company/team level and battalion task force exercises and training for the associated brigade level staff for the Army.
To prepare US troops for deployment in Iraq, MPRI supported a convoy live-fire exercise as part of a 2-day training course [pdf].
The course was run by the Combined Forces Land Component Command C-3 Training Section, which used 76 MPRI observer-controllers on the ground. Combat service support and combat support personnel, who traditionally have fewer opportunities to participate in live-fire exercises, received vehicle combat training.
Small-unit leaders were trained in various aspects of convoy operations, including conducting rehearsals, giving convoy briefings, making correct vehicle placements, leading rally point operations and performing casualty evacuations. Soldiers were trained in sectors of responsibility and sectors of fire while on the move, and they went through a series of shoot/don’t shoot scenarios.
