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Cubic Gobal Defense to support Navy and Marine pilot training

Cubic Global Defense is to help support the training of Navy and Marine Corp pilots of F/A-18 and EA-18G aircraft.

By Richard Tomkins
Pilots learning to fly F/A-18 Super Hornets, such as these pictured over Afghanistan, are to receive training support from Cubic Global Defense. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon
Pilots learning to fly F/A-18 Super Hornets, such as these pictured over Afghanistan, are to receive training support from Cubic Global Defense. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Cubic Global Defense is to support U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aviation training under a Naval Air Warfare Center, Training Systems Division task order.

The five-year task order, issued under the Navy's Fielded Training Systems Support IV indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract, carries a value of about $80 million.

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"Cubic is proud to be partnered with Naval Aviation with this new pilot and flight officer training and support contract," said Dave Buss, president of Cubic Global Defense. "When coupled with the important operations, maintenance and instructional work we currently perform with Navy and Marine Corps aircrew and training simulators in other locations, this new contract allows us to meet our customer's training needs with a set of innovative end-to-end solutions."

Under the task order Cubic will provide operations and maintenance support of F/A-18 and EA-18G aviation training devices and simulators at Naval Air Station Oceana, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, NAS Lemoore, NAS Whidbey Island and MCAS Beaufort.

Cubic instructors will also provide simulator and academic classroom training for Navy and Marine Corps pilots and other aircrew at NAS Lemoore, MCAS Miramar, and NAS Whidbey Island.

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