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Saab awarded Army training contracts

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Lance Cpl. Brayden Blackmon, a machine gunner with weapons platoon, Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), from Ozark, Missouri, sights in on a target on an engagement skills trainer, Nov. 11. The 11th MEU is deployed with the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) as a theater reserve and crisis response force throughout U.S. Central Command and the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Melissa Wenger/Released)

Saab has been awarded Army orders for training and simulation systems.

Under work ordered by the Army’s Program Executive Office of Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), Saab will provide OSAG 2.0 interoperability upgrades for the 7th Army Training Command’s Deployable Instrumentation System, Europe (DISE) and Combat Vehicle Tactical Engagement Simulation System (CVTESS), according to a Saab news release.

The upgrades will cover DISE infantry systems as well as CVTESS capability for the M-1 Abrams, Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and opposing force (OPFOR) vehicles.

OSAG 2.0 is a Saab-developed software code that simulates vehicle and anti-tank ammunition ballistic performance. The upgrades “will enable soldiers to quickly configure training system lasers to operate using either MILES Communication Code (MCC), primarily used in U.S. training environments or the OSAG 2.0 standard, used by most nations in Europe, for training engagements in any theater and together with multinational units,” Saab said.

“This capability provides the U.S. 7th ATC with the ability to train seamlessly with the European partners, using equipment that can be configured for MILES or OSAG 2.0,” said Cyndi Krisan, general manager of Saab Defense and Security USA’s training and simulation division.

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Michael Peck is a correspondent for Defense News and a columnist for the Center for European Policy Analysis. He holds an M.A. in political science from Rutgers University. Find him at theuncommondefense.com. His email is mikedefense1@gmail.com.