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Publish Date : 10-Dec-2012

An announcement is made by Florida, regarding an award which is bagged by it, that it has been awarded an 18-month extension to its Distributed Synthetic Air Land Training (DSALT) contract by the UK MoD.

Allowing pilots to train alongside British Army forward air controllers and artillery personnel prior to deployment to the front line, the initial four year contract was awarded in May 2009.

\'We\'re really showing the breadth of our capability,\' Nigel Best, director of global business development at QinetiQ UK, told Shephard of the company\'s presence at the show. \'We are able to do the integration of all of the pieces.

\'Soldiers fight as a team... if they get into trouble they call for help. You have to be able to train that as a team; all elements of the battlefield need to be coordinated.\'

For the purpose of training same system will be used , but rather than being operation-focused it will aid in more general mission training.

The primary users remain HQ level fire planning cells and fire support teams, who act as the eyes and ears on the front line for artillery batteries plus the RAF pilots that will be operating alongside them in the region and engaged in ground attack missions,\' a company statement said of the DSALT. \'By working together they experience the complexities of controlling aircraft, artillery and other assets, all in fast-moving situations.\'

QinetiQ has also designed and delivered a new training environment for close range weapon training for the Royal Navy. The new Close Range Weapon Training (CRWT) facility at HMS Collingwood is a \'scalable, flexible, training simulation system allowing the delivery of individual, collective and continuation training in the use of close range weapons\'.

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