SINGAPORE AIRSHOW NEWS: CAE Eyeing Indo-Pacific Customers for Training Environment

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SINGAPORE — Canadian tech company CAE is looking to bring its Integrated Learning Environment, a suite of commercial off-the-shelf simulation-based training products, to customers in the Indo-Pacific region, a company official said Feb. 5.

A “complete and comprehensive solution,” the Integrated Learning Environment is comprised of a portal that provides access to various training capabilities, including a learning management system, a learning content management system, resource management and scheduling, conferencing and collaboration, learning analytics, talent management and a help desk, according to CAE.

The training environment is currently used by the U.S. Army and Navy, as well as the Royal Canadian Air Force. Now, CAE is looking to bring this training capability to the Indo-Pacific.

Singapore in particular has shown “strong interest” in the Integrated Learning Environment, said Jeff Perry, head of strategic growth and engagement for the Indo-Pacific at CAE Defense and Security.

“We’ve been talking to the Singaporean air force for a number of years [regarding] the program. We’ve had several visits with them and also at our other shows,” he said in an interview on the sidelines of the Singapore Airshow. “We’re also talking to the Japanese about something similar. So, our focus in this region, the key markets, [are] Japan, Singapore, Korea.”

Though Perry said there were no official contracts or agreements to report yet, he added: “Talk to me in a year or so.”

The Indo-Pacific is “absolutely” a region that CAE is eyeing to bring the Integrated Learning Environment and holistic training capabilities to, Perry said. “The Singaporeans have some complex capabilities, and so they’ll get the benefits from the investment, [and] an Integrated Learning Environment will return them significant value.”

CAE’s goal is to provide Singapore and other international partners with holistic training solutions, meaning combining individual training systems into a more integrated platform “that adapts to the younger generation and tries [to] train them [in] the way they want to be alert,” Perry said.

David Bancroft, vice president of strategy and growth at CAE Defense and Security, said over the past several years there’s been a shift away from individual platform-based training and looking more towards the “holistic training plan of the whole country and the armed forces.”

“How do you interconnect?” Bancroft said. “How do you look at things like adaptive learning, leveraging data better to better train and have people move through?”

CAE is no stranger to the Indo-Pacific region, and Singapore in particular; the company has provided the country’s air force with capabilities across a number of platforms for “well over 15 years,” including training systems for the Boeing CH-47 Chinook and the Sikorsky S-70B Seahawk, Perry said.

“We’ve been in Australia for over 30 years and Singapore here for over 15 years, so it’s a long-term investment by CAE, and we see strong growth opportunities here in the region,” he said.

 

Topics: Training and Simulation