Alion Awarded $1.1M Army Subcontract to Replicate Real-Life Events on the Battlefield to Train Deploying Soldiers
MCLEAN, Va.-(Business Wire)-February 17, 2009 - Alion Science and Technology, an employee-owned technology solutions provider, is providing simulation tools to the Army and serving as an integrator between the Generating and Operational Forces under a one-year, $1.1 million contract through the Army’s Joint Training Counter Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) Operations Integration Center (JTCOIC). The focus of Alion’s work is to train warfighters in counter IED techniques.
Essentially, the program is training soldiers to identify, react and respond to IEDs. Alion, as a subcontractor to BAE Systems, runs the Systems Integration Modeling and Simulations (SIMS) Directorate within JTCOIC, which provides animated simulations of actual IED events in four days or less by using a variety of terrain and analytical tools, physics-based constructive simulations and gaming software.
“The goal of this program is to give deploying soldiers a realistic view of the current situation in the field,” said Dick Brooks, Alion Senior Vice President and Manager of the Distributed Simulation Group. “In just a few days, we translate actual battlefield information into video simulations for classroom and field training. The videos provide accurate re-creations of the enemy’s most recent tactics as well as how our forces responded, which can benefit both soldiers and commanders. This program helps soldiers train with the latest information, which makes the training more relevant to current field conditions.”
JTCOIC was established through a partnership with the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) and the Joint IED-Defeat Organization (JIEDDO).
The work under this contract received the National Training and Simulation Association’s (NTSA) Governor’s Award for Modeling and Simulation during the recent Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in Orlando, FL.
I/ITSEC is an annual conference that is considered to be one of the most important gatherings in the modeling and simulation arena. The conference promotes cooperation among the armed services, industry, academia and various government agencies in pursuit of improved training and education programs, identification of common training issues and development of multiservice programs.
About Alion Science and Technology
Alion Science and Technology is an employee-owned technology solutions company delivering technical expertise and operational support to the Department of Defense, civilian government agencies and commercial customers. Building on 70 years of R&D and engineering expertise, Alion brings innovation and insight to multiple business areas: naval architecture & marine engineering; defense operations; systems engineering; modeling & simulation; information management & technology; chemical, biological, nuclear & environmental sciences; wireless spectrum engineering; and industrial technology. Based in McLean, Virginia, Alion employee-owners are located at major offices, customer sites and laboratories worldwide. For more information, call 877.771.6252 or visit Alion online at www.alionscience.com.
This press release contains information about management’s view of Alion’s future expectations, plans and prospects that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of risk factors and uncertainties discussed in documents periodically filed by Alion with the SEC. Due to such uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.
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