£5million contract between QinetiQ and the Royal Air Force links together a number of British military ranges – enabling UK’s strike carriers to conduct training on a larger, more complex scale. QinetiQ signed a £5M contract with the RAF, to help create key support infrastructure for British Carrier Strike Group generation. Experts from QinetiQ and Inzpire will develop the capability to accurately track, control and debrief the upcoming major Carrier generation exercises throughout 2020-21.
The contract started in February this year, and will run through until the certification exercise in April 2021.
QinetiQ, the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force recently worked together to identify areas for improvement in need and ensure UK readiness to generate the Carrier Strike Group for deployment in May 2021. This process highlighted a number of training shortfalls. ...MORE