THALES selected for combined arms simulation system for the Royal Netherlands Army
17 October 2003
Thales announced today that it has been competitively awarded a '76.5million contract for the Tactical Indoors Simulation System (TACTIS) of the Royal Netherlands Army. TACTIS is a networked and modular simulation system, introducing a Distributed Interactive Synthetic (DIS) environment for combined arms training. It will be used to instruct and train armored infantry and Leopard 2 tank battalions in a sophisticated, mobile virtual environment. TACTIS includes 31 simulators, associated with 8 desktop PC systems. The system will be delivered by the end of 2006.
Thales Training & Simulation (TT&S) is prime contractor of the TACTIS programme, and is leading a team including Thales Nederland B.V. and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Overall the share of work for Netherlands industry is substantially above 50%. The award of this contract and the distribution of work demonstrates that Thales' multi-domain, multi-domestic policy is successful.
"Tactis is indoor training at it's finest. This system assures the ultimate combat training for our forces. Training in a virtual environment enables a crew to practise until a skill is completely mastered. The increasing use of simulators makes it possible for us to meet two of our goals: optimisation of our training methods in a way that is environmentally friendly as well", says Director Material Major General H.J.G.J Teussink on behalf of the Royal Netherlands Army.
The TACTIS programme positions Thales within Europe as the leading provider of networked simulation systems and reinforces its strength in the land forces market in the field of synthetic combined arms training. Thales has already delivered over 300 training simulation systems to the armies of 20 countries.
Press contacts:
Thales - Verena Adt - Tel : + 33 (0) 1 57 77 86 26
Thales Training & Simulation - Florence Fayolle - Tel : + 33 (0) 1 34 22 20 94
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