The Vidar Group, LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Enterprise comprised of present and former navy operators, will present help to the Royal Netherlands Air Drive Aircrews’ Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Coaching.
The Vidar Group makes use of employees with {qualifications} comparable to Joint Terminal Assault Controllers (JTAC) from the U.S. Air Drive, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Military, and U.S. Navy to supply sensible, live-fly coaching missions, aircrew flight simulation eventualities, formal classroom instruction, and radio communication coaching to its world prospects. Since 2017, The Vidar Group has educated 100S of Governments and Army Aircrews from across the globe, enabling them to be uniquely certified for real-world missions following coaching.
“Our workforce takes nice delight in working instantly with every buyer, guaranteeing they’ve the information and understanding to execute their function within the struggle. Most aircrews will merely conduct ISR missions, however those that get tossed into a fancy, multi-role, kinetic mission, we wish them to know how they supply worth,” mentioned CEO/Founder Wes Shover. “Our workforce is aware of they influence actual missions and our function right here is extraordinarily vital to everybody at Vidar.”
The Vidar Group has develop into an integral a part of the growth at Grand Sky Enterprise Park, giving entry to a few of the most gifted material consultants in a location exceptionally conducive for RPA missions. By working with native landowners within the surrounding space, Vidar provides aircrews a dwell simulation of missions they are going to see sooner or later. North Dakota serves as a superior location to simulate austere environments, arctic situations, and even barren terrain.
“Our workforce has utilized RPAs, fighter plane, bombers, and different shut air help (CAS) belongings for greater than 20 years within the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa and different places around the globe in austere, harmful wartime missions. We all know tips on how to practice like we struggle, and we additionally know tips on how to practice like we might want to struggle sooner or later,” Shover mentioned. “We love our job and our mission right here, and we perceive our worth in getting ready the brand new and veteran aircrews for what’s coming.” Hinting at what the corporate is aimed to do with the U.S. Air Drive MQ-9 Reaper Program quickly.
The Vidar founders and employees come from a various post-9/11 background, hailing from the unique MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper coaching packages which have been conducting this form of coaching since 2008 at bases in New Mexico and Nevada. Vidar coaching crews draw their expertise from different packages such because the MC-12W Challenge Liberty Program, contract CAS coaching, and quite a lot of navy unmanned plane car (UAV) packages within the U.S. and deployed places.
“Our workforce comes from all branches of service and from everywhere in the world to Grand Forks to arrange the subsequent technology of aircrews. It’s a excellent place to be, on the heart of all issues unmanned – the Silidrone Valley,” Shover mentioned. “Grand Forks is the appropriate place to be if you wish to practice with the most effective.”
