Calian Supporting Training for Canadian Armed Forces in Latvia

Training is essential for building and sustaining readiness for military units.  With decades of experience delivering military training for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and NATO partners, Calian is continuing its training legacy with a new contract for delivering training in Latvia.

Exercise Development and Delivery in Latvia

Calian will be providing direct support to exercise development and delivery for Canadian and NATO forces deployed to Latvia. Calian will deliver exercise scripting and exercise control (EXCON) support to design, develop, and deliver multinational division and brigade command post exercises as part of EX KNIGHT NAMEJS 2024. The KNIGHT exercises focus on interoperability between NATO partners, operating as one team as part of NATO’s deterrence priorities, with NAMEJS taking place in Latvia.

Calian’s delivery team will be working across five different functional areas to develop and deliver a cross-domain training experience that reflects the complexity of the Baltic operating environment. With land borders, maritime and littoral components, air corridors, and cyber and informational aspects, the Baltic operating environment provides many challenges and opportunities to exercise the multinational team. Calian’s subject matter expert delivery team is working with NATO-standard exercise development tools for this exercise.

Calian Simulation-Based Training

Simulation-based training prepares militaries for the challenges they will face on operations by presenting military personnel and units with a realistic, immersive experience. By presenting the latest lessons-learned from contemporary battlefields and operations, simulation-based training provides an accurate reflection of the kinds of challenges military units will face. This “train-as-you-fight” experience provides maximum learning and realism for the training audience. This means integrating the latest tactics, techniques and approaches observed in contemporary operating environments, including the use of commercially-sourced uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs) and drones, electronic warfare, information operations and small-group tactics.

Calian has been providing training to allies and partners in NATO and Europe for over a decade.

Into the Future

Canada has sustained its military commitment to a multinational NATO presence in Latvia since 2017 as part of the Forward Presence Battle Group. Canada leads the multinational Battle Group in collaboration with other NATO nations and with Latvia as the host nation. Deterrence in the Baltics is important for NATO, guarding against hostile acts on the Baltic flank. The training delivered through this project will build and sustain the readiness of the NATO Battle Group in Latvia.