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CAE: True Partner in UAE’s Digital Transformation and Knowledge-based Growth
Thibaut Trancart, CAE’s Managing Director, oversees the company’s defence and security activities in the Middle East. Ahead of the IDEX and NAVDEX 2021 shows, Trancart talks about his vision for CAE in the Middle East, innovations and digital technologies, key programmes in the region, and in-country knowledge transfer.
What is your vision for growing CAE’s business in the Middle East region?
From a geo-political standpoint and its strategic place on the global stage, the Middle East remains a region of high priority for CAE. My vision is to invest and grow our business in this region by 2025 to better support our customers. With our headquarters in the UAE, we will soon expand by establishing companies in Saudi Arabia and Qatar to give us a local presence. We are also establishing key partnerships with several local companies, to pursue training sustainment services and offset opportunities in the Middle East. As well, we support our CAE USA business unit leveraging foreign military sales opportunities through the United States government in the region. Our goal is to contribute to a countries’ battlespace digitalisation through their ambitious military modernisation with the objective to provide training and operational support, so they are prepared for mission operations.
CAE has been focusing primarily on training and is now transforming to leverage digital technologies for training as well as for operational support. How is this beneficial to the countries in the Middle East?
CAE is investing over C$1 billion in R&D as part of a programme called Project Digital Intelligence that will revolutionise training and mission support in defence and security, civil aviation, and healthcare with digital innovations.
In the last two years, we have seen the emergence of recent innovations that were born out of our Project Digital Intelligence R&D initiatives. One of these new innovations is the CAE Trax Academy; a pilot training continuum that delivers faster and more efficient pilot throughput. With advancements in artificial intelligence, data analytics, cloud-computing, virtual/augmented/mixed reality, and cybersecurity, CAE is leveraging these technologies to improve training delivery and mission support.
What are some of the most recent innovations?
Through our digital transformation, CAE has launched several innovations in the past two years. As part of the CAE Trax Academy, we introduced CAE Rise (Real-time Insights and Standardized Evaluations), which is a data-driven training system for pilot training. This tool uses big data to analyse student performance objectively and help instructors improve training. Also, part of the CAE Trax Academy is the CAE Sprint Virtual Reality (VR) trainer. It includes a virtual reality headset, haptics, physical flight controls and the CAE Medallion image generator to deliver a realistic virtual environment. The CAE Sprint VR trainer is available at our office in Abu Dhabi as a customer demonstrator and will be featured at our stand at IDEX.
Another digitally immersive solution we introduced is the CAE MAVRC (Mission Augmented Virtual Reality/Rear Crew) trainer which leverages mixed reality to create an incredibly immersive rear crew training solution. Finally, we are involved in developing some transformative operational solutions that leverage synthetic environments for planning, analysis and decision support. We are doing this currently for customers such as the UK Strategic Command under a programme called the Single Synthetic Environment and U.S. Special Operations Command, where in both cases the ability to create an interconnected and high-fidelity digital twin promises to deliver game-changing capabilities for the whole of a government. CAE in the Middle East is a local company with a global reach to help bring the most leading-edge technologies to help our military customers achieve mission readiness.
How is CAE supporting its customers through and beyond this pandemic?
Defence and security activities are considered essential by most nations, and therefore we were able to maintain over 90 per cent of our training and support operations for our customers around the world. Here in the UAE, some of our programmes initially experienced delivery delays due to travel and site access restrictions. However, we were able to rapidly adjust to this situation by following strict safety protocols to ensure the safety of our employees and customers as we resumed programme delivery activities. CAE employees from abroad flew to the UAE and Middle East during the pandemic, observed the quarantine protocols mandated by local authorities and had to do the same when they returned home. These sacrifices were made in order to provide continued support to our UAE and Middle East customers.
What are some of the key programmes in the UAE and throughout the Middle East?
CAE is designing and delivering the UAE Naval Training Centre (NTC) for the UAE Navy. As we approach completion, the training centre will be equipped with a range of integrated ship simulation-based training suites, as well as maritime aircraft sensor stations enabling individual, team, whole-ship and collective/joint mission training. The UAE NTC will be one of the world’s most advanced naval training facilities and a real showcase for the UAE Navy. For the UAE Air Force, we are delivering comprehensive training on the RQ-1E remotely piloted aircraft (RPA). We are also nearing completion of helicopter simulators for the UAE Joint Aviation Command. We are under contract to develop a Joint Multinational Simulation Centre (JMSC) for one of the GCC countries.
In Oman, we are supporting the creation and establishment of the Oman Aviation Academy to train and supply pilots for both the civil and military sectors in the country and the surrounding region. As well, we are developing a comprehensive NH90 helicopter training solution for the Qatar Emiri Air Force, and under subcontract to BAE Systems, we will be providing our new state-of-the-art CAE Medallion MR e-Series visual solution for Qatar’s Eurofighter Typhoon simulators.
What are some of the ways CAE is helping grow a knowledge-based economy?
Last year, CAE and Tawazun partnered to deliver an engineering internship through the SEEDS programme for university students in the UAE. Due to COVID-19, the internship could not be held in-person. This situation created the opportunity for CAE to innovate and offer a virtual internship to the students. This resulted in us being able to increase the number of students who participated in the internship. In total, 22 engineering students from Khalifa University (KU), UAE University (UAEU), Higher College of Technology and Abu Dhabi Polytechnic (ADPoly) participated. We are now repeating the virtual internship with a new cohort due to begin soon.
The SEEDS project was our first step and now our objective is to bring know-how in-country with ambitious Emiratisation programmes, such as the provision of systems engineering capabilities that will be developed here in the Middle East, and also a ‘Train the Trainers’ programme on remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) and naval training. Finally, as part of CAE’s redesigned office in Abu Dhabi, we will be launching a dedicated Innovation Hub related to artificial intelligence, digital innovation, and mission operations.
CAE is exhibiting at stand 01-A21
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