Citation
(2010), "BAE Systems overhauls training", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 42 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ict.2010.03742cab.005
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2010, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
BAE Systems overhauls training
Article Type: Notes and news From: Industrial and Commercial Training, Volume 42, Issue 3
BAE Systems is taking a holistic approach to the way it develops training for its military customers around the world.
Spurring the new method of doing business is a concept that the UK Ministry of Defence and its contractors call “through-life capability management”, which ensures that the capabilities needed to accomplish missions are sustained consistently and logically from start to finish.
BAE Systems is using OutStart LCMS as the single-source hub for assembling, reusing, managing and deploying learning modules to support its Military Air Solutions training contracts. These modules can include classroom, online and mobile learning for aircraft operators and maintainers, supported by instructor guides, student notes, assessments, surveys, job aides and help files.
The new system delivers electronic and printed materials that BAE Systems can tailor to its customers’ needs, considering what each individual needs to help him or her to learn best.
The system makes it possible to review existing training content and update it quickly, with new material for delivery in the format that customers need. All this, says BAE Systems, spells hundreds or even thousands of hours of time saved on redesigning and rewriting learning content. This enables the company to train its customers using the most up-to-date information in the shortest time, helping its customers to deliver operators and maintainers to the front line.
Brian Grierson, BAE Systems training-technology and e-capability manager, said: “We are using the system to focus on more effective management of training content and the efficient use of that content for multiple deliverables, such as training materials, instructor guides and student notes.”
“We have adopted a ‘through-life’ approach to managing training content to support our longer-term in-service support contracts. The system gives us opportunities to extend our customer offering from the same content pool – for example, developing e-learning content from material originally designed for instructor-led training.”