HII’s Mission Technologies division has won a $133 million contract by the U.S. Air National Guard to improve readiness and proficiency of flying units through live, virtual and constructive training.
Under the 10-year task order, HII will provide expertise and staffing for distributed mission operations events at the Air National Guard’s Distributed Training Operations Center, or DTOC. Located on the Des Moines Air National Guard base, the DTOC is part of the 132d Combat Training Squadron and connects more than 90 simulation sites nationwide, supporting readiness across total and joint forces.
“Incorporating live, virtual, constructive elements into training dramatically increases the level of realism for air units and enables them to enhance the critical skills needed to succeed in the face of global threats,” said Michael Lempke, president of Mission Technologies’ Global Security group. “Our team is focused on the warfighter mission and is pleased to provide customized training solutions for our nation’s citizen airmen and U.S. Marine Corps command and control units.”
HII delivers engineering and technology solutions for multi-domain training, creating realistic live and synthetic environments for mission rehearsal.
“We are pleased to expand our services for the DTOC as part of HII’s ever-growing portfolio of U.S. Air Force aviation training programs,” said John Scorsone, director for modeling, training and simulation in the Global Security group.
The HII team will implement the Joint Simulation Bus software interface used by the Defense Department to modernize the DTOC’s gateway connection. It will also use HII’s DMO test tools, now available to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Advanced Training Capabilities Program Office.
Work will be performed mainly in Des Moines and focus on training for joint forces and Air National Guard pilots.