Canadian firm Calian wins $212M British Army training deal

Published Aug 12, 07:50 AM UTC

The British Army has awarded a 15-year, $212 million training contract to Calian Group, a Canadian defense company, through its UK subsidiary Calian UK. The agreement, starting October 2026, extends Calian's previous Project NUMIDIAN work under the Raytheon UK-led Omnia Training consortium. Calian will support the British Army's Collective Training Service (ACTS), providing specialist collective training and modernizing capabilities with advanced digital, synthetic, and integrated training solutions. The deal reflects Western militaries' increased focus on realistic, high-stress collective training to prepare troops for modern warfare, including threats like drones and electronic warfare seen in Ukraine. Calian's President Chris Pogue emphasized that military readiness begins with training for complex environments, while Raytheon UK's James Gray highlighted the consortium's goal of delivering new levels of training realism through industry collaboration.