Close Air Solutions

General information

What Close Air Solutions Do and Why

CAS design and produce: software, hardware, training scenarios, and also facilitate training for defence and security personnel. We aim to exercise trainees without the sterile aspects of peacetime training con-straints such that trainees can see the direct consequences of their decisions, in representative situations. CAS believe and sincerely hope that this training leads to better decision making in high stress combat sit-uations and ultimately to the avoidance of unnecessary deaths.

Training Constraints & Consequences

We recognise that it is very difficult for personnel involved in the delivery of air and surface fires on the battlefield to train realistically and relevantly in peacetime due to cost, and safety constraints. This inability to train fully could lead to potentially devastating consequences. Close Air Solutions deliver both products (hardware and software), and services to improve the quality of simulation and training for military opera-tors.

Higher Cognitive Training for Better Decision Making

We aim to train operators, not just in procedures, but to increase their judgmental abilities. We do this by placing trainees in truly immersive, relevant, scenarios where they must make judgements that achieve their mission aims whilst acting: Humanely and with Proportionality, avoiding: unnecessary destruction, and unintended possibly politically devastating consequences.