Ravenswood Awarded MARCORSYSCOM, PM TRASYS Known Distance Automated Scoring (KDAS) OTA
ORLANDO, FL (June 27, 2024) – Team Ravenswood has been selected to partner with MARCORSYSCOM, PM TRASYS on the prototype development of a Known Distance Automated Scoring (KDAS) solution. This TReX II Program of Record aims to deliver more efficient, effective Annual Rifle Qualification (ARQ) for stationary stages of fire. In addition to automating the rifle range infrastructure, our team will implement analytics to enhance the assessment of Marine shooting and performance.
Team Ravenswood is a collaboration of three complementary industry partners — Ravenswood, Oakwood Controls, and Cervus – working together to help the United States Marine Corps (USMC) improve its marksmanship training. According to Kipp Peppel, President and CEO of Ravenswood Solutions, “KDAS is an opportunity to leverage Team Ravenswood’s extensive range and training experience in support of USMC marksmanship. We are excited to partner with Oakwood and Cervus to enable Marines to achieve their full potential in Annual Rifle Qualification.”
“Our system will modernize rifle marksmanship qualifications as we know it and provide Marines with a more efficient and accurate process for annual rifle qualification,” says proud Marine Veteran Bill Cox, Ravenswood’s KDAS PM. “Through cost effective range modernization, we will ensure adaptability to future training concepts, we’ll provide more efficient and accurate scoring, improving marksmanship skills and enhancing the lethality of Marine shooters.”
Media contact –
Ravenswood Solutions: Naomi Atlas, 650-646-2895, naomi.atlas@ravenswoodsolutions.com
About Ravenswood Solutions. Ravenswood Solutions, Inc. enables world-class performance through exceptional technology and partnership. Born in Silicon Valley, Ravenswood specializes in rapidly delivering data collection, visualization, and analysis capabilities to your point and time of need, anywhere in the world. For more than 25 years, Ravenswood has successfully fielded scalable, modular solutions for training, testing, and operations across a variety of defense and commercial applications. Our expert team of geeks and grunts is dedicated to ensuring you achieve your goals in an efficient and cost-effective manner. At Ravenswood, we are committed to delivering on-time, on-budget, with unparalleled performance. www.ravenswoodsolutions.com
About Oakwood Controls. Oakwood designs and manufactures target systems for live fire marksmanship training and evaluation. Oakwood target systems are in use by all branches of the US military and are trusted by top tiers of US Special Operations Forces. Our mission is simple – to help our US and allied military forces be the most accurate, first round shooters in the world. For more information, visit www.oakwoodcontrols.com
About Cervus. Cervus are a SME and veteran owned, UK analytics company, formed in 2013. Cervus was founded by three retired British Army Officers, frustrated at the pace at which meaningful insights were exploited from military data. With a primary focus on training and experimentation, Cervus have evolved from a consultancy, helping customers exploit their data, to an analytics software company. This is underpinned by a team which is a distinctive mix of operational experience, defence understanding, computer and data science, and simulation engineering. This ensures that Cervus’ analytics products, such as Xcalibr, are relentlessly focused on the Warfighter. https://cervus.ai/products-services/xcalibr-marksmanship-analytics/
