Engagement Skills Trainer (EST) 2000 Engagement Skills Trainer (EST) 2000 DESCRIPTION AND SPECIFICATIONS PROGRAM STATUS The Engagement Skills Trainer (EST) 2000 is a • 1QFY05 Start fielding of Lot V /institution, indoor, multipurpose, multi-lane, subsystems (205 subsystems). small arms, crew-served, and individual anti-tank • 1QFY05 Complete the modeling of simulator that saves currently required the XM8 for EST 2000 integration resources, operation and personnel tempo, as • 1QFY05 Start the modeling XM141 well as travel time and costs to and from ranges. Bunker Defeating Munition (BDM) for It simulates weapon training events that lead to EST 2000 integration live-fire individual or crew weapon qualification and training events currently not resourced under PROJECTED ACTIVITIES Standards in Training Commission (STRAC). • 2QFY05 Complete Phase 1 of modeling the leaders are able to control and evaluate XM307 Advanced Crew-Served Weapon for Improves efficiency and conserves individual, fire team, and squad performance. The integration into EST 2000 needed ammunition through EST 2000 simulates the following weapons: M16A2 • 2QFY05 Award of Lot VI production option rifle, , M9 , MK19 grenade machine (130 subsystems) simulated indoor training for gun, M249 , M240 machine • 3QFY05 Complete fielding of Lot V, gun, M136 (AT4), M1200 , M2 machine 205 subsystems individual and crew-served gun and M203 . At the request • 1QFY06 Complete fielding of Block I Upgrade CONTRACTORS weapons marksmanship, collective of other programs, efforts are in process to model to Production Lots I and II (new autotracker, other weapon systems to be part of EST 2000: brighter digital projector, more powerful CPU, Systems Design and Integration: marksmanship, and “shoot-don’t- XM8 carbine, XM307/XM312 crew-served weapon, Windows XP operating system) making them Cubic Simulation Systems (formerly ECC Precision Guided Munitions, , interoperable with Lots III – IV International Corporation) (Orlando, FL) shoot” training. and Javelin. Three EST 2000 subsystems equal one Simulated Weapons: system. The system is covered by an approved FATS, Inc. (Suwanee, GA) operational requirements document (ORD) last amended in May 1997. INVESTMENT COMPONENT Modernization

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