Westbury UK, 7 November 2024 - Lockheed Martin has secured a two-year extension from  the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to continue operating, maintaining and providing technical support for the British Army's Combined Arms Tactical Trainer (CATT) programme.  This ensures Lockheed Martin can continue to modernise and adapt CATT, to meet the Army’s changing operational and training requirements, to be ready to train today, tomorrow and beyond.

The contract, worth approximately £10 million, runs until February 2027.

Based at two sites, the British Army Land Warfare Centre in Warminster, UK and Sennelager, Germany, CATT has continually evolved and improved, and remains as the largest and most sophisticated battlefield simulation trainer in the world. Covering an area the size of three football pitches, it consists of over 200 networked simulators linked in a virtual and immersive training environment.

Soldiers are put through their paces in realistic scenarios involving vehicles, aircraft, other soldiers and commanders as well as civilian population, insurgents and non-governmental organisations such as charities and television crews. CATT can simulate a combat area of over 10,000 square kilometers (3,800 square miles) and can accommodate over 400 warfighters training together as a battlegroup.

“The contract award of the CATT extension will ensure Collective Simulated Training continues to be delivered across the British Army,“ said Kathryn Hopes, Project Manager for Training and Special Projects, Ministry of Defence - Defence, Equipment and Support. “CATT is a key component of the British Army’s safe system of training and vital to its progression to operational readiness validation. Without CATT, live training costs, such as ammunition, fuel and equipment, would significantly increase and formations would not be able to take advantage of the plethora of other benefits it brings to generating a capable fighting force.”

Lockheed Martin continues to deliver new capability to the system, most recently upgrading the visualisation engine to produce more lifelike graphics for simulating real-world environments.

“Our training pedigree on CATT spans more than two decades, playing a crucial role in maintaining mission readiness for the British Army,” said Emlyn Taylor, Group Managing Director of Lockheed Martin UK – Rotary and Mission Systems. “With this extension, we remain committed to adapting to evolving requirements through ongoing investment, incorporating advanced features to ensure CATT provides soldiers the most sophisticated battlefield simulation training experience.”

For more information about Lockheed Martin’s training solutions, visit our website: www.lockheedmartin.com/training

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