Hughes Training awarded WARSIM 2000 Phase I contract.ARLINGTON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 1995--Hughes Training Inc. Friday announced receipt of a $1 million award from the U.S. Army's Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM STRICOM Simulation Training and Instrumentation Command STRICOM Simulation, Training & Instrumentation Command (US Army) ) for Phase I work on the WARSIM WARSIM War Simulation WARSIM Warfighters Simulation 2000 2000 simulation program. WARSIM 2000 is designed to provide a simulated training environment allowing unit commanders and battle staffs to direct simulated warfighters and weapon systems to counter threats across a full range of Army and Joint operational scenarios. WARSIM's Phase I period will last approximately six months, during which time STRICOM officials will observe key features of the Hughes Training team's proposed approach in meeting the program's overall objectives. In early 1996, following Phase I completion of WARSIM 2000, the Army plans to select a company to undertake full-scale development of the WARSIM 2000 simulation system. During Phase I, the Hughes Training WARSIM 2000 integrated product team will develop and refine a battlefield simulation architecture, undertake system and software engineering demonstrations, and conduct and a software prototyping project. This program activity will be conducted in Hughes Training's Integrated Development Facility in Orlando, Fla. The Hughes Training WARSIM 2000 team includes Cubic Applications Inc., Loral Advanced Distributed Simulation, MRJ MRJ Mitsubishi Regional Jet MRJ Macintosh OS Runtime for Java MRJ Maximally Random-Jammed MRJ Macintosh Runtime for Java , GTE, CACI CACI - A company developing and marketing SIMSCRIPT, MODSIM and other simulation software products. Telephone: +1 (619) 457-9681. , Oracle and A & T. "The Hughes Training team is ready to demonstrate its ability to develop a computer-based battle simulation architecture that maximizes commander and battle staff training across the entire operational continuum," said Stuart Moore, Hughes Training's president. Hughes Training is an established global supplier of simulation systems for defense, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , industry and commercial markets. The company is a unit of Hughes Aircraft Co., which is a unit of Hughes Electronics Corp. The earnings of Hughes Electronics, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of General Motors Corp., are used to calculate earnings per share of General Motors Class H Common Stock (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GMH). CONTACT: Hughes Training Inc., Arlington Rick Oyler, 817/695-3536 |
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