By Light subsidiary books $500M Army virtual training contract
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Ross Wilkers
Cole Engineering Services Inc. is tasked to enable a common environment for training non-rated crewmembers.
A subsidiary of By Light will build a new virtual platform for military aviation and ground units to conduct combined training activities under a new three-year, $500 million contract with the Army.
The Army's goal for the Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Trainer system is to enable a common synthetic environment for training non-rated crewmembers in mission tasks such as coordination, flight and aerial gunnery.
Cole Engineering Services Inc. was the lone offeror for RVCT, the Defense Department said in its Thursday digest. Work will take place through April 2026.
By Light acquired Cole in 2019 to gain greater capability in providing simulation-based systems for military missions and interoperable architectures, which are intended for use in engineering and training environments.
Cole is also the prime contractor for a $957.7 million Army program called Cyber Trident, through which the service branch is seeking to stand up a cyber operations training environment.