U.S. Army Selects AAI's Man-Portable Aircraft Survivability Trainer; Contract Has a Potential Value of $43M

AAI Test & Training, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. TXT company, announced today that its Man-Portable Aircraft Survivability Trainer (MAST) has been selected by the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation, or PEO STRI, under a task order from the Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Omnibus Contract II. Valued at $10.6 million, the initial order includes design, development, production and testing of nine first article systems and 41 production systems. Including four option years, the contract has a total potential for 300 systems at a value of $43 million.