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VEGA continues supporting Maritime Composite Training Systems programme

27 January 2010 – VEGA Consulting Services Limited (VEGA), a Finmeccanica company, has announced a new contract award from the UK MOD worth in excess of £2m that will see VEGA support the Maritime Composite Training Systems (MCTS) programme for the next five years.

The MCTS programme delivers warfare operator career training for all the principal classes of Royal Navy warships, including the new Type 45 destroyer, providing both generic and platform-specific training in a fully synthetic environment. Additionally it provides a shore-based continuation training capability for platform warfare teams, enabling them to participate in realistic synthetic exercises to maintain their operational skills.

In the first phase of the programme, training is undertaken in two reconfigurable shore-based training facilities, located near Portsmouth and at Devonport, inter-connected via a secure link. The facility is also capable of interoperating in synthetic exercises with other UK and coalition training facilities. Future MCTS phases will evolve to offer collective training linking with warships alongside as well as those at sea.

Under the terms of the contract awarded by the UK MOD’s Maritime Training Systems Output Business Unit (MTS OBU), VEGA will provide a full-time, onsite team to deliver ongoing technical support to the MCTS programme. The contract continues VEGA’s long-standing relationship with the MTS OBU and the Maritime Warfare School (MWS). The company has provided the UK MOD with independent technical support of legacy maritime warfare operator and team trainers since 1990.

The new contract takes effect from January 2010 and will run for five years with an option for a further two years support.

MCTS Project Manager, Jon Havard, commented: “We are extremely happy to extend our working relationship with VEGA. Their collective experience of the MCTS programme and of the Royal Navy’s specific warfare training requirements, means that we are always guaranteed the highest quality technical support.”

VEGA Managing Director, Paul MacGregor, said: “VEGA is recognised for its trusted and expert advice in the delivery of effective, through-life capability. We are therefore delighted to be continuing our successful involvement with the MCTS programme. The expertise of the VEGA team is helping secure the future evolution of warfare training at a time when operational effectiveness is of paramount importance.”

Further information

For further information, please contact Mark Gunning on mark.gunning@vega.co.uk.