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R&A Member of Winning ARCIC Contract

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Friday 2 September 2011: The United States Army recently informed Cubic Applications, Inc. that they have been awarded the ARCIC Future Warfare Study Contract. R&A is a team member on this 13.6 million dollar, 3 year contract.

The Future Warfare Division (FWD) within the TRADOC's ARCIC, is responsible for the contract. The purpose of this organization is to balance development of requirements, concepts, and products across all elements of doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leader development and education, personnel, and facilities (DOTMLPF) for the transformation of the Army to the Future Force. The Concept Development and Learning (CD&L) Directorate's Future Warfare Division (FWD) has four primary functions. These functions are to annually develop and execute the Chief of Staff Army's (CSA) Future Study Plan (FSP), examine alternative futures, provide venues to develop and explore Senior Leader Areas of Interest, and Incorporate and examine Army Concepts in Joint, Service, Multinational, Interagency, and Department of Defense wargame activities in order to identify operational and functional areas for refinement.

The purpose of the contract is to support the ARCIC with the conduct and operational analysis required for these studies. R&A has agreed to provide services in the following areas:

  • Wargaming model capabilities
  • Creating federations of dissimilar models and simulations
  • Wargame scenario and OPFOR development
  • Implementing wargame modifications and improvement

R&A will provide JTLS to Cubic and the Government for use on this contract. Our model engineers will play an important part in developing guidance on a future strategy for the system's use within a senior wargamimg environment. R&A will also provide architectural and design subject matter experts to establish the most effective application for the use of JTLS to meet contract task objectives. In addition, R&A will be the lead for M&S support when the JTLS model is used to support ARCIC training events.

If the Government determines that new JTLS capabilities are required in support the ARCIC's use of the model, R&A will be responsible for implementing the required improvements which will be passed along to all JTLS users under our "one model for all" development philosophy.

Written: EFR

Approved: RJR