As part of the Tactical Engagement System In Kenya (TESIK) programme, Ravenswood was awarded two Post Design Service tasks to enhance the TESIK capabilities: instrumenting Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise (CALFEXs) and adding simulated mortars for light role battlegroups that train in Kenya.
Ravenswood will provide a mortar training solution with a very high degree of realism for the crew and accurate representation into the simulated and live training environments. Created in partnership with Cole Engineering Systems Inc., the realistic mortar system is based on a training barrel that fires simulated rounds a short distance. These components communicate into the TESIK system and kill instrumented entities in the simulated impact area. The mortar simulates the 81mm mortar by matching in-service size and weight, assembles quickly and requires no alteration to tactical employment to create the most realistic combined training possible with no unnecessary or difficult artificial drills.
For instrumented live fire, Ravenswood will capture key data points to provide more analysis of collective live fire events. Ravenswood, working with Cervus Defence and Security Limited, will measure rates of fire, capture use of dead ground, identify exposure to unsuppressed targets and other data points allowing better understanding of success in live fire as well as comparison of marksmanship to training standards. In combination with the instrumented mortar, the TESIK system will now integrate simulated indirect fire with platoon and company live fire. Observer and mortar lines can now fully participate in CALFEX, with effect captured for AAR.
“These notable capabilities will add significant training value at every level. Progressive enhancements such as these demonstrate the benefits of forward leaning, proactive partnerships. We look forward to fielding both capabilities in just a few short weeks.” says David Cullen, General Manager of Ravenswood Technologies Kenya Limited.
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About Ravenswood Solutions, Inc. Ravenswood Solutions, Inc. enables world-class performance through exceptional technology and partnership. Born in Silicon Valley, Ravenswood specializes in rapidly delivering data collection, visualization, and analysis capabilities to your point and time of need, anywhere in the world. For more than 25 years, Ravenswood has successfully fielded scalable, modular solutions for training, testing, and operations across a variety of defense and commercial applications. Our expert team of geeks and grunts is dedicated to ensuring you achieve your goals in an efficient and cost-effective manner. At Ravenswood, we are committed to delivering on-time, on-budget, with unparalleled performance.
About Ravenswood Technologies Kenya, Ltd (RTKL). RTKL is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ravenswood Solutions Inc. The RTKL team is proud to offer an expeditionary instrumentation system that provides situational awareness and real-time casualty assessment for collective training, test and evaluation, experimentation, and operational command and control requirements. Our field teams are standing by to support global exercises and operations. We provide a turnkey logistics-and-technology package, allowing operators to focus on the mission at hand, optimise resources, and exploit opportunities. Our field-proven, exercise control software suite is best-in-class for live and synthetic, distributed, interactive simulation. We ensure all events occur as planned—on time and fully resourced.
About Cervus. Cervus are a SME and veteran owned, UK analytics company, formed in 2013. Cervus was founded by three retired British Army Officers, frustrated at the pace at which meaningful insights were exploited from military data. With a primary focus on training and experimentation, Cervus have evolved from a consultancy, helping customers exploit their data, to an analytics software company. This is underpinned by a team which is a distinctive mix of operational experience, defence understanding, computer and data science, and simulation engineering. This ensures that Cervus’ analytics products, such as Xcalibr, are relentlessly focused on the Warfighter.
About Cole Engineering Services, Inc. (CESI). Cole Engineering Services, Inc. (CESI) is recognized as a premier provider of modeling and simulation (M&S) training solutions to the Federal Government and industry. Since 2004, CESI has been at the forefront of developing, maintaining, and integrating simulation-based training, serious gaming, technical services, training and other support in live, virtual, constructive, and gaming (LVCG) domains. CESI also designs, builds and runs infrastructure, platforms, applications and processes that enable cyber training for the integrated multi-domain force. Our vision is to become a worldwide full spectrum LVCG and cyber training/analysis developer, integrator and services provider.
