Training and Workforce
Scorpion Selected for ASDOT Proposal
An ASDOT contract is due to be awarded in September 2018, with delivery of the service to run for 15 years starting in January 2020.
Left to right: Steve Wadey, CEO QinetiQ; Scott Donnelly, chairman and CEO, Textron; Victor Chavez, CEO Thales UK; and Sir Steven Dalton, senior air advisor to Textron AirLand.
Left to right: Steve Wadey, CEO QinetiQ; Scott Donnelly, chairman and CEO, Textron; Victor Chavez, CEO Thales UK; and Sir Steven Dalton, senior air advisor to Textron AirLand.

The Textron AirLand Scorpion has been selected by QinetiQ and Thales to provide a large proportion of the platform capabilities for their planned ASDOT bid (ASDOT is the UK Ministry of Defence’s Air Support to Defence Operational Training program). The three company CEOs involved signed a memorandum of understanding at Farnborough yesterday to launch the bid.