Canada’s CAE [CAE] on Friday said its United States-based division has acquired the Technology Assisted Learning (TAL) business unit of RTI International, giving it capabilities in land simulation and training solutions in the U.S. market
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
TAL, which has about 35 employees in several locations around the United States, provides maintenance trainers for the U.S. Army’s ground vehicles. The company designs and manufactures full-scale maintenance trainers and virtual desktop trainers for a range of variants of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, Abrams tanks and the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System.
CAE’s U.S. business is primarily geared to flight simulation where the company already has a presence with the Army’s aviation community. The relatively small acquisition, which CAE said would be immaterial to its financial results, adds new customers with the Army. CAE does provide land simulation and training solutions to armies around the world.
“By leveraging CAE’s core simulation technologies and expertise, we will be able to offer TAL’s current customers as well as new customers in the U.S. and abroad, a range of new solutions and capabilities,” John Lenyo, president and general manager, CAE USA, said in a statement. “We intend to build upon the solid base that TAL has established in land maintenance training systems to further expand into adjacent ground training opportunities, such as driver trainers and land combat vehicle simulators.”