Ravenswood Solutions replaced Saab after winning a five-year contract to provide British Army with training services in Kenya. Saab has been training the British Army since 2010.
On March 2. UK Ministry of Defense announced the new Tactical Engagement Simulation in Kenya (TESIK) on its portal valued at 31.6 million pounds.
The announcement indicate that Ravenswood Solutions will provide British Army troops with training in Kenya and other locations. The new trainer with also provide instrumentation, weapon simulators, battlefield effects, and instrumented after-action reviews (I-AARs) in collaboration with Swiss-based laser engagement systems provider RUAG, global logistics provider Agility, and UK-based engineering and technical services corporation QinetiQ.
RUAG’s laser-based, live-simulation system better known as Gladiator will interface with Ravenswood’s instrumentation system (known as the Mobile Ground Truth System) in order to generate high-fidelity exercise data, tracking of troops and vehicles over a large, remote training location and subsequently produce I-AARs to improve training.
Ravenswood on its part noted that TESIK is its first major contract with UK Ministry of Defense. The five-year contract has an option to extend for one more year. The contract to kick start from 1st September 2020 to 31st August 2025.
According to Ravenswood CEO Dan Donoghue, his team is thrilled to begin a strong military cooperation with UK based on trust-based partnership. He noted that Ravenswood has tailored the best in the industry in order to meet the British Army’s training need. He added that his team looks forward to helping the MOD achieve their desired training outcomes, as well as bridging their current capabilities to their future needs.
The British Army has for many years held training in Kenya under the British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK), consists of up to six British infantry battalions per year carrying out two month-long exercises in Kenya where they can train in rugged and hot environs.
BATUK is a permanent training support unit based mainly in Nanyuki, 200 km north of Nairobi, but with a small element in Nairobi. BATUK also provides demanding training to exercising teams in readiness to be deployed on operations or assume high-readiness tasks. The British Army in Kenya consists of around 100 permanent staff and reinforcing short tour cohort of another 280 personnel.
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