The Supply of the Falcon Training Service (WANT)

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The Supply of the Falcon Training Service (Wide Area Network Training - WANT) - Voluntary Transparency Notice (VTN) N.B. THIS NOTICE IS NOT A CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST WANT is essential in providing and maintaining both the Royal SIGNALS (Army) and RAF with trained personnel to deploy the Falcon communications network. The Falcon network provides backbone communications across Defence on operations. WANT requires Contractor (White Fleet) provided support to deliver the required trained capability for both Air and Land Forces. The Military (Green Fleet) alone cannot support the throughput of students in the time required. Green Fleet equipment is limited in its availability and in the number of students that can be trained simultaneously, unlike the White Fleet Training Equipment that replicates the Green Fleet equipment system elements through emulation on a classroom networked personal computer. The current training solution also provides a separate capability in a classroom to support Crypto training. The Falcon syllabus and courseware for WANT is owned by the MoD.