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CMPS awarded U.S. Army contract for a combat training center modernization

By TechTaffy Desk

Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions (CMPS) was awarded a firm-fixed-price (FFP) prime contract for the Modernization of an FMS Customer’s Combat Training Center (CTC) by the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI).

CMPS will perform total life-cycle systems management, including sustainment and multiple live training products for individual soldiers, vehicles, anti-tank weapons, fixed/mobile CTC networks, and Observer Controller (OC) voice systems, the company said in a statement.

[Image courtesy: CMPS]

 

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