Xebec Installing Trainers for MH-60R Seahawk

Xebec Government Services, LLC, a Mentor-Protégé Joint Venture between Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. and CAE USA, has been awarded the Aircrew Trainer Install Contract (ATIC) for the assembly, installation, and functional evaluation of the MH-60R Naval Aircrewmen Training Systems (NATS), at North Island Naval Station, CA and MH-60S Aircrew Virtual Environment Trainer (AVET), at Norfolk Naval Station, VA. The ATIC task order was awarded as part of the US Navy's Training Systems Contract IV (TSC IV) Multi-Award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract vehicle.

The NATS and AVET are motion-based simulators capable of training up to three aircrewmen simultaneously in aerial gunnery and rescue hoist operation, as well as search and rescue and vertical replenishment procedures. The NATS and AVET will provide the capabilities required to train individual and collective crew tasks, and core capabilities will include support to Fleet Readiness Squadron (FRS) and post-FRS aircrewmen training, aircrew combat training requirements for the MH-60R and MH-60S aircraft. They will primarily support training for door gunner skill acquisition, target engagement, and crew coordination during weapon related evaluations and visual threat recognition and avoidance training.