Cubic contract expanded to provide USMC advisor training

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Jan. 10, 2007 – The defense segment of Cubic Corporation (Amex: CUB) reported that its largest training contract with the U.S. Marine Corps has been expanded to include training Marines who will serve as military advisors to indigenous security forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Cubic started training the Marines in June after the Program Manager for Training Systems (PM TRASYS) in Orlando approved a modification to Cubic’s Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Systems Support (MTSS) contract. Awarded in 2003, the MTSS contract has a potential value of $82 million over five years. As a result of the $3.4 million modification, Cubic will now also support the U.S. Marine Corps’ Security Cooperation Education and Training Center, SCETC, which is the organization responsible for conducting advisor training.

Cubic is to train Marine Corps advisors in U.S. and foreign weapons, convoy operations, offensive and defensive driving, vehicle maintenance and recovery operations, tactical communications, Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC), and emergency lifesaving medical techniques.

Employees of Cubic’s Operations Support Division, based in Hampton, Va., are currently conducting the advisor training at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., and the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) at Twentynine Palms, Calif.

Cubic’s staffing of the SCETC program allows the Marine Corps to reassign military personnel who previously supported advisor training to perform other missions. The company’s initial team consists of ten personnel at Quantico and two at Twentynine Palms. The Quantico-based team provides course development, instruction, instructional material management and support services, and conducts advisor training at both Quantico and Twentynine Palms. The Twentynine Palms team handles operations planning, scheduling and logistics support for the Quantico-based instructors while they are operating at MCAGCC.

“This new contractual task represents an important expansion of Cubic’s Marine Corps business,” said Len Supko, a retired Marine Corps officer, who is Cubic’s program manager for USMC mission support. “We are providing vital and relevant training to Marine Advisor Teams, who will be working hand-in-hand with indigenous forces to help restore security to Iraq and Afghanistan. These teams will be operating by themselves, which has really focused us to ensure we provide them the best training packages we possibly can.”

Supko noted that Cubic has had a longstanding presence in both Quantico and Twentynine Palms as the prime contractor for MAGTF Training Systems Support. Since 1998, Cubic has been supplying research, analysis, planning and execution of realistic computer-based simulation training for senior-level Marine Corps’ commanders and their battle staffs at both locations, as well as at Camp Pendleton, Calif.; Camp Lejeune, N.C.; Camp Courtney, Okinawa, Japan; and Camp Smith, Hawaii. Cubic also provides training support to battalion and regimental staffs for combined arms operations; and individual Marines needing instruction on USMC C4ISR systems.

Cubic’s Operations Support Division is part of the Mission Support Business Unit of Cubic Defense Applications (CDA). One of Cubic Corporation’s two major segments, CDA is a world leader in realistic combat training systems, mission support services and defense electronics. The corporation's other major segment, Cubic Transportation Systems, designs and manufactures automatic fare collection systems for public mass transit authorities. For more information about Cubic, see the company's website at www.cubic.com.