Responding to today's announcement by the Minister of State for the Armed Forces regarding the Defence Training Review (DTR) Rationalisation programme, Graham Love, Chief Executive Officer at QinetiQ said:
"We welcome the commitment shown to Package 1 in today's statement. It is an important milestone towards the delivery of the largest part of the DTR Programme. The Programme and the Metrix solution provide the chance to make a step change in training delivery supported by a bespoke environment for tri-service training for the 21st century. We continue to expect to reach financial close on Package 1 in 2009 and will continue to support any work with the customer to develop options for Package 2."
QinetiQ is a joint lead company in Metrix UK. For further information see www.metrixuk.com.