Cubic Awarded Contracts for New Combat Training Center Instrumentation in Romania and Slovakia.SAN DIEGO -- Cubic Defense Applications, the defense segment of Cubic Corporation (Amex:CUB), has received two U.S. Army contracts with a combined total of $13.4 million to provide mobile Combat Training Center (CTC CTC - Cornell Theory Center ) instrumentation to the Romanian and Slovakian armed forces. Under the new, multi-year contracts with the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), Cubic will supply its CTC instrumentation system with MILES IWS See iPlanet Web Server. and MILES 2000 Tactical Engagement Simulation A Tactical Engagement Simulation (TES) is a training system for using weapons. Laser transmitters are used instead of bullets, larger rounds, or shorter-range guided weapons such as anti-tank missiles. Systems to Romania and Slovakia respectively. MILES 2000 and MILES IWS will be an integral part of fully instrumented mobile CTCs that allow commanders and trainers to track all weapons engagements, communications, movements of soldiers and weapons systems in force-on-force exercises. Cubic's instrumentation system will monitor and assist in the control of participants in the live training domain, with the capability to be linked to virtual and constructive training domains. Cubic Defense Applications (CDA (1) (Compact Disc Audio) The compact disc file extension that is seen on the computer in Explorer or some other file manager. CDA files are actually pointers to the locations of the individual tracks on the CD medium. See CD-DA. ) is one of Cubic Corporation's two major segments. CDA is a world leader in realistic combat training systems, mission support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services and defense electronics. The corporation's other major segment, Cubic Transportation Systems, designs and manufactures automatic fare collection systems for public mass transit authorities. For more information about Cubic, see the company's website at www.cubic.com. |
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