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R3 awarded EOD Training and Evaluation Unit ONE Instructor Training and Support Services contract

R3 was awarded a 5-year support contract for EODTEU ONE and EOD Expeditionary Support Unit ONE that encompasses combat shooting, boat and vehicle maintenance, equipment dispatch, Readiness and Training support, Robot and other unmanned systems technical support, emergency medical technician and other logistics support.  The work will be performed primarily in San Diego and NAWS China Lake with additional support OCONUS as required to support forward deployed units. 

Gene Rathgeber, R3’s Program Manager stated: “This opportunity reinforces R3’s core competencies of Readiness, Requirements, and Resources and enables us to provide support back to the community from which we came while on active duty.  We are proud to have a diverse team that includes many veterans as we continue to serve.”

 

R3 awarded EODESU-1 maintenance contract

R3 was awarded a five-year prime contract through Fleet Logistics Center, Norfolk, VA to support the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Expeditionary Support Unit ONE (EODESU-1) Dive Locker Mk-16 SCUBA Maintenance Services.

Our support will perform the maintenance of critical (DLSS) equipment at EODESU-1 Diving Division and provide scheduled and corrective maintenance on eighty-six (86) MK-16 underwater breathing apparatus (UBA) and one hundred twenty (120) SCUBA dive rigs.

EODESU-1 personnel have provided global EOD support which has impacted the unit’s ability to meet individual and detachment training. Extended, accelerated, and unplanned deployments continue to create urgent requirements in individual and detachment pre-deployment training schedules that are already competing for limited resources.

R3 will provide training and expertise to individuals and detachments in the operation and maintenance of portable and installed High Pressure Air (HPA) systems, HPA storage and delivery systems and certify personnel in the use of the Poseidon Regulator.

R3 awarded EODTEU-1 professional training contract

R3 was awarded a 30-month prime contract through Fleet Logistics Center, Norfolk, VA to provide a support team to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Training and Evaluation Unit ONE (EODTEU-1) of Learned Professionals whose primary duties will require advanced knowledge in the specialized intellectual instruction and teaching Subject Matter Experts experienced in Explosive Ordnance Disposal, chemistry, virtual reality, and emerging technologies evaluation.

R3’s team consists of Booz Allen Hamilton and Point One, USA and we will provide 19 professional personnel to support the training of EOD units of action (UoA), develop strategies for the integration of emerging technology into EOD Tactics, Techniques, & Procedures (TTPs) and support the Learning Standards Department for incorporation of new technology and associated training into curriculum material updates and revisions.

Our team will train approximately 300 EOD Technicians, Navy Divers, and or other Department of Defense (DoD) personnel each year. Our SMEs will be supporting the following courses: EOD Expeditionary Mine Counter Measures / Very Shallow Water; EOD Human Systems Integration Cell; EOD Surface Ordnance/IED; EOD FTX Trainers; and a Chemist to support Chemical and Biological/Homemade Explosive Division.