Omnia Training selected to deliver £2bn army training contract

LONDON, UK, 10 July – Omnia Training has been awarded a £2bn contract by the UK Ministry of Defence to serve as the British Army’s Strategic Training Partner and deliver the Army’s Collective Training System (ACTS).

The Raytheon UK-led consortium, consisting of Capita, Cervus, Rheinmetall UK, Skyral, will deliver the ACTS in partnership with the British Army.  The 15-year contract will provide soldiers with an integrated, digitally enabled collective training system that transforms how they train, prepare, and adapt for future missions. Raytheon is an RTX business.

By combining virtual, synthetic, and data-driven environments, it upgrades traditional live exercises to better prepare soldiers for complex, modern warfare, enabling training whenever and wherever required.

“We launched Omnia Training over three years ago to deliver cutting-edge training systems to help the British Army effectively prepare for operations” said James Gray, Managing Director and Chief Executive of Raytheon UK. “Our UK‑based team of innovators, engineers and experts will give soldiers and commanders a new level of training realism and set an example for effective collaboration between the Army and industry”.

The Omnia team will enhance operational readiness and transform how the British Army trains by making greater use of synthetic technologies, advanced analytics and next-generation training platforms that integrate virtual, synthetic, and data-driven environments.  Using UK-developed technology and working with a team of UK based partners and suppliers, Omnia Training will prepare soldiers for warfighting through realistic, integrated, immersive and adversarial collective training.

270 jobs will be created as a result of the contract award, with a further 150 jobs sustained. 

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