3
Simulation Modalities Integrated
5
Functional Service Domains
100%
Scheduled Event Availability
5
Years of Continuous Performance
The Situation
The U.S. Army Fires Center of Excellence (FCoE) at Fort Sill, Oklahoma is the institutional home for Field Artillery, Air Defense Artillery, and Joint Fires doctrine, training, and leader development. FCoE trains thousands of soldiers annually through a combination of classroom instruction, field exercises, and simulation-based training events that replicate operational fires scenarios across the full spectrum of conflict. The training environment integrates constructive, virtual, and live simulation modalities with mission command systems, requiring continuous technical support to maintain system readiness and synchronize training delivery with TRADOC instructional schedules.
Sustaining this training mission requires an integrated contractor support capability spanning TADSS operations, simulation center management, training event execution, systems maintenance, and IT infrastructure sustainment. Training systems must be available and configured for every scheduled event, simulation environments must accurately model operational scenarios, and technical support must be present during all training execution windows to resolve system faults and maintain continuity.
Our Approach
GTS delivers FCoE support services as a subcontractor to Calibre Systems under contract W9124L-20-D-0007, providing personnel and technical services across five integrated functional areas that sustain the Fires Center’s institutional training and simulation operations at Fort Sill.
Training Systems Support personnel prepare and configure training systems and simulation environments for classroom, field, and distributed learning events. GTS staff assist instructors and cadre with system setup and operation, provide real-time technical support during training execution, and reset and reconfigure systems between training iterations. This function ensures that every scheduled training event begins with fully operational systems configured to meet the specific learning objectives defined by the FCoE instructional cadre.
Simulation and TADSS Operations cover the operation and sustainment of mission simulation centers and associated training systems. GTS personnel configure scenario-based training environments that model operational fires scenarios, support the integration of constructive, virtual, and live simulation modalities, maintain system availability for scheduled training events, and troubleshoot system faults with coordinated corrective actions. These simulation environments replicate the operational complexity that fires soldiers will encounter in deployed settings, from call-for-fire procedures through joint fires integration and air defense operations.
Mission Support Services provide direct operational assistance during training exercises and mission rehearsals. GTS personnel coordinate role-player support where required, assist with scenario development and execution, operate after-action review (AAR) data collection and playback systems, and coordinate with government personnel to ensure training objectives are met. The AAR function captures exercise data that feeds directly into student evaluation and doctrinal assessment processes.
Systems Maintenance and Sustainment ensures operational readiness of all TADSS equipment through preventive maintenance, deficiency identification and reporting, coordination of component repair or replacement, configuration control of systems and software, and availability tracking against operational requirements. This maintenance discipline minimizes system downtime between training events and ensures that scheduled instruction is never delayed by equipment failures.
Information Technology and Systems Integration support maintains the network connectivity, system integration, user access management, and cybersecurity compliance that underpin the FCoE simulation and training infrastructure. GTS personnel manage data storage and retrieval for training systems and ensure that all IT operations conform to government cybersecurity policies and TRADOC network requirements.
The Results
GTS maintains training system availability for all scheduled FCoE events, delivers simulation environments configured and operational for each training iteration, and provides continuous technical support during all training execution windows. System downtime is minimized, documented, and reported through maintenance and service logs. Training support schedules, system readiness reports, incident and deficiency reports, and after-action support data outputs are delivered in accordance with contract requirements.
This engagement demonstrates GTS’s capacity to deliver integrated training and simulation support within one of TRADOC’s premier Centers of Excellence. The requirement for personnel skilled in constructive, virtual, and live simulation operations, TADSS maintenance and configuration control, mission command system integration, AAR data capture, and cybersecurity-compliant IT management reflects the technical depth of GTS’s training support services practice. Operating within the FCoE institutional training framework, where system readiness directly affects soldier qualification and fires force generation, validates GTS’s ability to sustain mission-critical training infrastructure at the Army’s institutional level.
