Cubic was founded seventy years ago in the United States and is known for its innovation in both the transportation and the defense sector. Cubic is in particular the largest provider of Live Training Systems (LTS) to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization members, having “fielded more than a quarter million systems at over twenty-five fixed and mobile combat training ranges in thirty-three countries”(1). Its European branch, Cubic Defence UK “delivers technology-driven solutions to Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (C4ISR) and training”. It also “delivers a tactical Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) indirect fires ecosystem, improving live firing competence through immersive training solutions” (2).
The interview below focuses on the latter and the challenges of training in the context of the transformation of ground warfare and artillery given the combination of the return to high intensity warfare and new ways of using innovative and game-changing technologies. Andrew Gales and Martyn Armstrong discuss these issues.

In this interview, Robert Nioa, CEO of the NIOA Group, explains the evolution and vocation of a family business born in the early sixties – and celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year – which today has become not only the gateway to over fifty international partners, but also Australia’s largest privately-owned supplier of small arms, ammunition and related products to the Australian and New Zealand military, police and commercial markets. A company in line with the Australian Armed Forces’ desire to strengthen their autonomy and sovereignty in this field, and to be able to contribute to the supply chain of their partners and allies.

General Christian Jouslin de Noray, central director of the Structure intégrée du maintien en condition opérationnelle des matériels terrestres (SIMMT) (Integrated Land Equipment Maintenance Structure) since 2020, gives us his vision of an incremental land equipment support strategy and a realistic inventory policy that will enable our armies to acquire the industrial depth that is essential for any high-intensity scenario.