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Soldier Systems - Paul Watson
Daisy Donato - Resource Management Brenda Skipper - Administrative Assistant
Joe Cabret - Lead Gunnery & Maintenance (GMDT) TADSS
Dave Sellars - Lead Aviation & Transportation (AT) TADSS (Acting)
Paul Biocic - USMC TADSS Joe Moreira - ARNG & Bradley TADSS Dave Sellars - Utility/Cargo Devices & DAT John Mings - Attack Devices
Tom D. Walker - Logistics Specialist Don Compton - Projector Coordinator - Ft Rucker
Dave Malone - Systems Engineer Frank Stroud - USAALS/USATSCH & AVCATT
Frank Parra - Abrams TADSS Daisy Otero - Provisioning Specialist Ernest Jamison - Ft Eustis Project Coordinator Joyce Rodgers - ASL & Documentation (Rucker)
Rob Hoppe - Common Driver Trainers Scott Kinser - AT Lead - TDY Afghanistan Dan Santiago - Cargo & Utility Devices Toni Karnitz - TADSS Reset & UAS SCT

MISSION:

Soldier Systems provides high-quality and economical sustainment services for the families of aviation, gunnery maintenance and driver trainer virtual training devices at more than 150 training sites worldwide. Sustainment services consist of device maintenance, supply support, engineering and upgrade support, device relocations, and minor post-production software support. Additionally, training services, to include instructors, operators and facilitators for the family of devices, are also provided as necessary.

Soldier Systems currently focuses on the following platforms: Legacy Gunnery and Maintenance Trainers, Abrams Advanced Gunnery System (AGTS), Bradley Advanced Training System (BATS), Common Driver Trainer (CDT) (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP), Stryker, Tank, Tank Engineering Variants), High-Mobility Multi-Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) Egress Assistance Trainer (HEAT), Legacy Aviation and Transportation Devices, CH-47F Transportable Flight Proficiency Simulator (TFPS), UH-60M Transportable Blackhawk Operations Simulator (TBOS), AH-64D Longbow Crew Trainer (LCT), LUH-72A Lakota Cockpit Procedures Trainers, Aviation Maintenance Trainers, and Aviation Combined Arms Tactical Trainer (AVCATT).



SOLDIER SYSTEMS SYSTEM AVAILABILITY


Device availability is critical to ensure Soldiers have necessary resources available to learn and sustain required skills. The required 90% contractor performance factor has been exceeded with an average from 2009 to present of +98%.


Gunnery Maintenance and Driver Trainers (GMDT) operational excellence includes:

 Cockpit of the CH-47 Tactical Flight Proficiency Trainer TFPT
Cockpit of the CH-47 Tactical Flight Proficiency Trainer TFPT
  • Attaining over 90% operational readiness
  • Meeting 100% of all scheduled training events
  • Training over 100,000 Soldiers at GMDT sites in 2010
  • Attaining work order to completed status over 95%

Aviation and Transportation operational excellence includes:

  • Achieving Contractor Performance Factor (CPF) of over 98% CPF since contract inception (and previous to December 2003)
  • Meeting many obsolescence challenges for 25 to 30 year old devices
  • Successfully supporting interfacing newer technology with old technology that is still in use
  • Successfully installing field kits sent to device sites
  • Actively participating with OEM modification teams
  • Supporting fielding of new devices and relocation of existing devices
  • Reacting quickly to short-notice requirements
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