SAN
DIEGO, Calif., August 14, 2007 – Cubic Defense Applications,
the defense segment of Cubic Corporation (Amex: CUB),
has received orders worth a total of $15.6 million to
provide its P5 Combat Training System (P5CTS) to the Mississippi
Air National Guard. P5 is the U.S. military’s air
combat training system for the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Marine
Corps and Air National Guard. The new system will represent
a major technological leap over an earlier air combat
training instrumentation system at the Gulfport Readiness
Training Center that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina
in 2005.
“The Gulfport range lost all capability for live
instrumented training,” said Steve Queen, program
manager for Cubic Defense Applications in charge of the
Gulfport project. “This has been a real loss, since
the range was widely used to train Air National Guard,
Reserve and active-duty Air Force and Navy aircrews from
across the country.”
Cubic is under contract to deliver the new P5CTS instrumentation
components early next year toward a goal of making the
system fully operational by February 2008. Cubic and its
primary partner for the P5 program, DRS Technologies Inc.,
will supply GPS-equipped pods and related ground components,
including the Individual Combat Aircrew Display System
(ICADS™), an advanced system that allows pilots
to debrief on laptops or personal computers as well as
in a traditional debriefing theater.
P5 is a cooperative program of the Air Armament Center
(AAC), based at Eglin AFB, Florida, and the Naval Air
Systems Command (NAVAIR) at Patuxent River, Maryland,
in which AAC is responsible for the contracting activity
for all services. AAC, together with Air Combat Command
(ACC), Langley AFB, Virginia, and PMA-205, are responsible
for overseeing P5’s development and fielding to
U.S. Air Force sites.
Cubic Defense Applications (CDA) is 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.