Cubic to Support Training Exercise for Indiana National Guard

SAN DIEGO—July 5, 2006—The defense segment of Cubic Corp. will provide role players, scenario development, battlefield effects and other training support for a comprehensive combat training exercise in July involving more than 750 members of the Indiana National Guard.

Cubic is supporting the National Guard Bureau in executing and evaluating the Exportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC), a training concept that allows Army National Guard and Army Reserve units to undergo highly realistic battlefield conditions and instrumented training at their home station, or at regional training sites. XCTC training exercises resemble the training experiences that soldiers receive at such major Army combat training centers as Fort Polk, La., or Fort Irwin, Calif., according to a company announcement.

The National Guard Bureau's second XCTC exercise will take place July 8 to 28, 2006, at Camp Atterbury Joint Forces Maneuver Training Center and at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, both in Indiana. Cubic's team will be responsible for developing settings, characters, scenarios and battlefield effects reflecting the contemporary operating environment that National Guard troops now face in Iraq or Afghanistan, the announcement said.

To prepare for the event, Cubic's Operations Support Division has assigned a core group of full-time employees to plan and execute the training exercise, and is also training more than 200 local role players to portray civilians on the battlefield.

“The XCTC concept allows the National Guard and Reserve to make maximum use of limited training time and dollars,” said Lee Legowik, in the announcement. Legowik is a retired brigadier general in the Army National Guard who now directs National Guard Programs for Cubic's Mission Support Business Unit.

Cubic is supplying its training services as part of a team headed by Coalescent Technologies Corp., the announcement said. Earlier this year, the Coalescent team received a four-year, $39 million task order to provide modeling and simulation and broad-based training support to the Army National Guard and other Department of Defense units. The team received the task order through the U.S. Navy's nationwide Seaport-e electronic contracting activity.

Cubic also participated in the National Guard Bureau's first XCTC exercise last summer, providing battlefield effects, role players, video recording services, training analysts and technicians.

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