Raytheon and its partner team won a $13.5 million task order modification on the Warfighter Field Operations Customer Support (FOCUS) contract to add more Afghan pilots to the New Dawn training programme. An additional 24 fixed-wing and four rotary-wing Afghan Air Force pilots will be trained.
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Based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the New Dawn programme trains Afghan Air Force Officers to a level equivalent to a commercial pilot certification. Upon graduation, the pilots return to Afghanistan for service as aviators in that nation's Air Force. So far, 102 Afghan Air Force pilots have received training in the English language, aviation theoretical knowledge, advanced mathematics and problem solving skills, in addition to commercial pilot training that includes advanced instrument flight qualification.
Raytheon provides this training via the Warfighter FOCUS contract, leading a team of more than 150 partner companies called the Warrior Training Alliance (WTA). Raytheon and the WTA maintain more than 240,000 training aids, devices and simulators and help train US Army soldiers, allied and coalition partners around the world.
Since 2008, the Raytheon-led WTA has provided training hours on WFF to soldiers and will continue to be flexible and responsive to new requirements and emerging training needs. The WTA supports hundreds of manned and unmanned training locations worldwide:
Around the world the WTA maintains training aids, devices, simulators and simulations (TADSS), ranging from individual soldier laser training devices to sophisticated multi-media and virtual reality trainers. Some major accomplishments on WFF include:
Based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the New Dawn programme trains Afghan Air Force Officers to a level equivalent to a commercial pilot certification. Upon graduation, the pilots return to Afghanistan for service as aviators in that nation's Air Force. So far, 102 Afghan Air Force pilots have received training in the English language, aviation theoretical knowledge, advanced mathematics and problem solving skills, in addition to commercial pilot training that includes advanced instrument flight qualification.
Raytheon provides this training via the Warfighter FOCUS contract, leading a team of more than 150 partner companies called the Warrior Training Alliance (WTA). Raytheon and the WTA maintain more than 240,000 training aids, devices and simulators and help train US Army soldiers, allied and coalition partners around the world.
Since 2008, the Raytheon-led WTA has provided training hours on WFF to soldiers and will continue to be flexible and responsive to new requirements and emerging training needs. The WTA supports hundreds of manned and unmanned training locations worldwide:
- Major training areas supported include: Ft. Benning, Ga.; Ft. Hood, Texas; Ft. Huachuca, Ariz.; the National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, Calif.; Afghanistan; Korea; Germany
- All DoD services trained (Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force); special operations forces (SOCOM); national assets such as CBIRF; allied and coalition forces
Around the world the WTA maintains training aids, devices, simulators and simulations (TADSS), ranging from individual soldier laser training devices to sophisticated multi-media and virtual reality trainers. Some major accomplishments on WFF include:
- To date, $7.9 billion has been awarded on more than five thousand task orders on WFF
- On average, 32% of all contract dollars have gone to small business
- To date the WTA has supported more than 1.4 million training events
- Most recently, we supported training the Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) in exercise Scarlet Response, one of the nation’s largest incident response exercises in Perry, Ga. from 21 to 23 July
- Task Order Support Turnaround Time (average turnaround time from when a requirement is identified to task order issuance and work begins): More than 75% reduction since contract start