Final Stryker Variants delivered

LA JOLLA, Calif., Sept. 21 (UPI) -- The last of nine Common Driver Trainer Stryker Variants has been delivered by California-based Science Applications International Corp. to the U.S. Army.

The CDT architecture allows driver cabs to be interchanged while using a common motion base, After Action Review station, instructor-operator station, and visual display. A highly flexible, full-motion virtual simulators, SAIC's Stryker Variant, is the Army's first deployment of a product line based on the Common Driver Trainer architecture.

"The successful development of the CDT and the initial variant for Stryker has validated the CDT concept," said Maj. Dan Gamel, CDT project director for the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation, in a statement. "This will enable production-only efforts like this order for additional Stryker Trainers and lay the foundation for straightforward extension of the CDT to simulate other vehicles in the future."

SAIC is a scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services and solutions provider to the U.S. military, the Department of Defense and the intelligence community among others.

"We are pleased that the Stryker Variant program has been so successful and that the customer is highly satisfied," said Beverly Seay, senior vice president and general manager of SAIC's Analysis, Simulations, Systems Engineering & Training Business Unit. "This accomplishment validates the fact that we are carving a niche for SAIC as a leading player in world-class virtual simulation."

The final unit was delivered to Fort Benning, Ga.