S2. E1: The Future of Land Training

Today’s the day the Warfighter Podcast get to announce its new Sponsor - Babcock International, who have very kindly agreed to back our exciting schedule for the Season 2.

To kick things off we are joined by Matthew Chuter who’s the Campaign Director for CTTP at Babcock. We start the discussion around the CTTP Programme recently launched in the UK and what it means for transforming Army Training. Matt also reveals the members of Team Crucible and describes what they each add to the training delivery proposition. We look forward to digging into some of these interesting areas during this season.

For the second half we are joined by Jennifer McArdle PhD who is the Senior Director of Defense Programmes at CAE. Jennifer’s reputation precedes her, and she kindly shares with us her quick take on the main challenges for the future of Land Training, particularly in the light of the recent war in Ukraine. We discuss the impact of the Urban Battle and how that’s still a huge challenge, as well as how current training systems need to evolve from their Cold War origins.

A great primer for the new season as we plan to dig into some of these topics in future episodes.

Hosts:

• Tom Constable: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-constable/ 
• Colin Hillier: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinhillier/

Guests:

• Matthew Chuter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-chuter-7bb1878/
• Jennifer McArdle PhD: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-mcardle-ph-d-a7404a36/

Links:

• Team Crucible: https://www.team-crucible.co.uk/
• Website: https://www.warfighterpodcast.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/warfighter-digital/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkgiH-cwmyc2I2Iyc8MLYtg
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarfighterPod

Episode Sponsor: Babcock International

Babcock has always operated hand in hand with our customers because their mission is our mission. Our people support the British Army by contributing to front-line support, delivering the capability they need, available to them wherever, whenever and however they need it. We ensure the British Army can focus on their missions safely by supporting their vehicles, both armoured and white fleet with skilled engineers and capability backed by long-term through-life engineering expertise.

We enable our defence and emergency services customers to do their job with our technical training programmes. We combine deep understanding and long-term commitment with constructive challenge. An embedded partner, focussed on outcomes. Globally, new defence and resilience equipment programmes and asset modernisation programmes are seeing a resurgence. Training personnel is a critical component to support these programmes.

Whether it’s applying engineering excellence or the latest technology, we combine our expertise with a practical mindset. Alongside our deep engineering experience, digital and data technologies will allow us to better understand, predict and enhance the performance of the assets we manage, make better engineering decisions to reduce risk and improve service delivery.