Kratos Awarded Contract Valued at $1.4 Million for MBRAT VIE CH-47F Chinook Avionics Training Systems

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced today that the U.S. Army has purchased two of Kratos' Maintenance Blended Reconfigurable Aviation Trainer (MBRAT) Virtual Immersive Environment (VIE) training systems with the CH-47F Chinook Avionics configuration. The order is valued at approximately $1.4 million, including life cycle support services for the next four years.

The work will be performed under a purchase order issued by USfalcon, Inc. (Morrisville, NC) under the Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD) SPOTS V contract.

The MBRAT VIE is a reconfigurable system designed and built by Kratos to provide avionics maintenance procedures, fault isolation, and remove and install training for multiple rotorcraft platforms, including the CH-47F Chinook and the UH-60M Black Hawk. Architected to increase training options while reducing training costs, the MBRAT VIE is a virtually immersive, full-task trainer that blends spatial physical awareness with virtual environments and the appropriate aircraft platform's system configuration.

"The MBRAT VIE uses a cost effective blend of Computer Based Training (CBT) and replicated physical controls," said Jose Diaz, Senior Vice President for Kratos' Training Solutions. "As a result, it provides the best of both worlds: an immersive physical, visual and tactile experience that also yields enhanced flexibility and a superior training environment at a far lower cost than traditional part- and full-task trainers."

The MBRAT VIE can be installed at a training institution to support school instruction or delivered in a mobile configuration to facilitate deployment to the Warfighter. It can operate as a standalone unit or as multiple units connected and controlled by a single instructor station.