Project Gold Standard represents a step change in the National Capability for the provision of effective management of major emergencies and events. Aimed at bridging the gap between individual and collective training, Project Gold Standard system encompasses a mixture of people, technology and procedures working together to create a flexible training capability focused at providing Strategic “Gold” Commanders with a safe, stimulating, challenging and enjoyable learning environment.

Project Gold Standard is based around a constructive simulation providing a level of fidelity allowing for detailed analysis of outcomes. Working alongside customers own in-place command and control centre technologies, the Project Gold Standard system allows users to validate their own operating arrangements while still benefiting from collective training.

The Project Gold Standard solution has the following key features:

• Mobility – the training team will run the training at your location, this includes the provision and setup of the training system in your facility

• Logging – the system automatically records every phone call made and, using a digital video solution records every decision made by the command group. Moreover, the AES exercise delivery software records every event, response and email sent by the trainees of post-exercise review

• Modelling Credibility – the solution uses the DSM model to give credibility to outcomes and to stimulate dynamic changes to the scenario environment. It achieves this by providing a highly detailed model of the scenario to assess impacts in both the response and recovery phases.

For Project Gold Standard NSC is part of a consortium with AgustaWestland, SAIC and Needhams 1834.