ENABLING MODERNIZATION
MULTIPLE PLATFORMS
TESS can be installed on several platforms, including tanks, but its main platform is an aircraft. (Photo courtesy of PEO STRI)
possible outside of an actual battlefield.” Lujan said TESS is included in FMS cases via the total package approach, which allows the U.S. to provide not only the major weapon system, but also materiel and services the partner nation will need to sustain the system.
CONCLUSION A typical FMS case might include the sale of the aircraft, and also TESS to enable realistic training, in-country field service reps to provide training and logistic support, spare parts, maintenance support, manuals and technical documentation— “everything our allies need to be successful,” explained Lujan.
Lujan said he and his team from the small International Program Office in central Florida stay focused on the success of partner nations. “Strong allies make strong alliances,” he said. “And that is the importance of empowering our allies. We are proud to partner with them and ensure they can defend their own borders and protect their citizens, but we are also ensuring they can provide the support the U.S. and coalition forces need against shared threats.”
Lujan said no one knows for sure exactly when and where the next battlefield will be, “but the U.S. Army is doing everything in its power to ensure [that] not only U.S. forces are ready, but so are our allies.”
For more information on how PEO STRI develops, delivers and sustains training, testing and information operations capabilities to U.S. and partner nations, go to
https://www.peostri.army.mil/.
ADRIANE ELLIOT has served as a journalist, editor and public affairs specialist for the U.S. Army for more than 24 years, both on and off active duty in the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Before beginning her military public affairs career, she served as a freelance reporter and columnist for the New Bern Sun Journal tri-county newspaper in New Bern, N.C. She also served as director of public affairs for the Area Support Group – Afghanistan during a yearlong deployment in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel and the NATO-led Resolute Support Mission. She is the recipient of multiple military and national civilian journalism competition awards.
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