Cubic, Thales partner for JFST bid

6th March 2018 - 10:30 GMT | by The Shephard News Team

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Cubic Global Defense has partnered with Thales to bid for the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) Training and Simulation Systems Programme (TSSP) Joint Fires Synthetic Training (JFST) project, Thales announced on 1 March.

The JFST project aims to improve training capabilities for the British Army by providing an immersive Joint Fires (JF) solution to train JF integrators in both mounted and dismounted roles – across land, littoral and air domains at the individual and collective levels.

Cubic and Thales will offer an innovative and immersive training system for the UK armed forces that leverages their capabilities in network security; exercise management and after-action review tooling; advanced live, virtual, constructive and synthetic environments; and training service management and delivery.

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