Omnia Training has secured a landmark £2 billion contract from the UK Ministry of Defence to serve as the British Army’s Strategic Training Partner.
The contract tasks Omnia Training with delivering the Army’s Collective Training System, known as ACTS, over a 15-year period.
Omnia Training is led by Raytheon UK, itself a business unit of defense and aerospace giant RTX (NYSE: RTX), headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
The Raytheon UK-led consortium includes industry partners Capita, Cervus, Rheinmetall UK, and Skyral, who will jointly deliver the training system alongside the British Army.
The ACTS program is designed to provide soldiers with an integrated, digitally enabled collective training system that transforms how they train, prepare, and adapt for future missions.
By combining virtual, synthetic, and data-driven environments, the program upgrades traditional live exercises to better prepare soldiers for complex, modern warfare.
“We launched Omnia Training over three years ago to deliver cutting-edge training systems to help the British Army effectively prepare for operations,” said James Gray, Managing Director and Chief Executive of Raytheon UK.
Gray added that “our UK-based team of innovators, engineers and experts will give soldiers and commanders a new level of training realism and set an example for effective collaboration between the Army and industry.”
The contract is expected to create 270 new jobs while sustaining an additional 150 existing positions across the consortium’s UK operations.
Omnia Training will rely on UK-developed technology and a network of UK-based partners and suppliers to prepare soldiers for warfighting through realistic, immersive, and adversarial collective training environments.
The consortium brings together more than 1,500 personnel already serving in defence training roles, drawing on over two years of co-located collaboration between the partner organizations.
Raytheon UK employs more than 2,000 people and functions as a major supplier and systems integrator to the UK Ministry of Defence, covering defence and space technologies.
RTX, the parent company, reported 2025 sales of more than $88 billion and employs over 180,000 people globally across its aviation and defense divisions.
