Artillery center gets training, development report

Boeing Co. has delivered a final report to the Army designed to help the service establish clear procedures for institutional training and doctrinal development at its new consolidated artillery center at Fort Sill, Okla.

The final report for the Army Fires Center of Excellence includes a five-year training strategy, an organizational structure and a technology roadmap, Boeing officials said April 14. In general terms, the recommendations are intended to help the Army improve artillery training.

The Army established the organization as a way to consolidate its Defense Artillery Center and School at Fort Bliss, Texas, with the Field Artillery Center and School at Fort Sill. The service's goal in consolidating the centers is to obtain greater consistency and standardization in doctrinal development and institutional training as they relate to air defense artillery and field artillery.

Boeing’s partner on the consulting contract, which began in August 2008, is Creative Technologies Inc.