Textron Systems to Provide Operational Trainers

Textron Systems Corporation, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that, through its affiliate, TRU Simulation + Training, it has been awarded a $39.3 million total contract value from the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) to provide operational trainers and curriculum for the Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC) program. Textron Systems will provide motion and static trainer types and advanced electronic classrooms.

Each trainer system provides varying levels of the curriculum for the pilots, flight engineers, deck engineers and loadmasters to successfully operate an SSC. The base contract award has a period of performance of two years with integration work being completed at TRU Simulation + Training’s Goose Creek, SC facility.

“The advanced SSC training systems provide critical education to SSC operators,” said Steve Mensh, Senior Vice President, Electronic Systems. “Textron Systems has decades of experience designing and integrating multi-domain trainers, so this is an exciting opportunity to strengthen our cross-domain expertise and provide further reaching support to the U.S. Navy.”

The trainers will be located at five U.S. Navy locations. Textron Systems is the SSC OEM and has 60 years of experience in test, training and simulation.