13 Mar 23
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Inzpire has announced that it has recently expanded its British Army training expertise by completing a training scoping exercise for the UK’s Watchkeeper Tactical Remote Piloted Air System (RPAS) on behalf of the army.
As part of a contract through the Engineering Delivery Partner (EDP), experts from Inzpire’s Training Services Division and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Division conducted a Defence Systems Approach to Training (DSAT) training needs analysis (TNA) scoping exercise on behalf of the Watchkeeper Force and Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S). This exercise identified current training requirements for the force, while also highlighting any emerging training requirements.
The scoping exercise included a force-wide review of training governance and management, existing training provisions and the current training pipelines, with Inzpire’s experts working collaboratively with Watchkeeper HQ to conduct a holistic analysis of the force’s training setup.
Recommendations were then made to ensure that both current and future Watchkeeper training is appropriately designed, delivered and managed, to optimise training in the most efficient and cost-effective way.
Watchkeeper deployed on Project CONVERGENCE 2022. MoD Crown Copyright 2022, Sgt Donald C Todd (RLC).
Head of Inzpire Training Services Division Tineke Brooks said: “The combined experience, training specialisms and lived military experience offered by our specialist training services and ISR teams working together, brings meaningful insight to optimising military uncrewed aerial system training.”
“Our report will significantly assist the customer in shaping current and future Watchkeeper training requirements, ultimately enhancing the capability.”
This contract is the latest in a long line of projects through which Inzpire has delivered TNA to defence customers. TSD has delivered multiple TNA to the UK’s armed forces and has completed a number of in-depth scoping exercise reports including a full TNA, comprehensive scoping exercise and report on behalf of UK Space Command in 2022. TSD and ISRD have combined forces before, providing a TNA and a synthetic training study for the MQ-9B Protector.
Inzpire also recently announced that TSD and ISRD would be supplying training services to the British Army in support of a contract led by Lockheed Martin UK. Project TIQUILA will see Inzpire provide TNA, training design and training delivery services to British Army UAS instructors at the Royal School of Artillery, Larkhill.
The British Army’s Watchkeeper Unmanned Aerial System being prepared and launched from RAF Akrotiri. UK MoD Crown Copyright 2021, Cpl Matthews
Watchkeeper Tactical RPAS
Watchkeeper is an uncrewed aircraft system with a range of intelligence and reconnaissance cameras and sensors, including a state-of-the-art surveillance radar. It is built in the UK, and has been used successfully in Afghanistan, where it played a crucial protective role for British troops. Since the first flight in 2010, Watchkeeper has accumulated over 3,000 flying hours. For more information visit https://www.army.mod.uk/news-and-events/news/2020/08/watchkeeper/
Inzpire’s Training Services Division
Inzpire’s Training Services Division provides consultancy and end-to-end training services including training analysis, design and development, digital learning and training assurance externally to clients worldwide and also internally to Inzpire’s own employees.
The team prides itself on the quality and flexibility of its scoping and analysis toolset and is able to conduct focussed and objective analysis for training, job roles, equipment or processes in any given market or sector, and has done successfully, both in the UK and abroad.
Inzpire’s training consultants, each with a minimum of 10 years’ training consultancy experience are skilled and qualified in the delivery and provision of scoping exercises, role analysis, gap analysis, method and media analysis and training options analysis.
Inzpire’s Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Division
Inzpire’s Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Division delivers expertise in crewed and uncrewed ISR domains through an expert team with over 35,000 operational flying hours across a range of platforms.
The division’s capabilities span training design and delivery; operational managed services; consultancy and expert advice in all aspects of the ISR capability life cycle, from requirement capture and definition through to platform concepts of operation, training and operations.
Most of the division’s experts are Qualified Weapons Instructors in ISR and more than half retain currency in their capacity as RAF Reservists to deliver and support frontline ISR and RPAS operations. This ensures Inzpire’s ISR experts retain a solid understanding of what ISR practitioners need at all times.
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