Simulator firm inks real $3M deal with U.S. Navy

SARASOTA — CAE Healthcare, the Sarasota division of a global civil aviation and defense training firm, set a sales record in a deal with the U.S. Navy worth more than $3 million.

The company, according to a release, sold 44 Caesar trauma patient simulators to the U.S. Navy Expeditionary Combat Command. The simulators, built to resist extreme temperatures, rain, dirt, dust, sand and body impact, will be used for tactical medical care field training in sites throughout the U.S., Guam and Spain. CAE Healthcare will also provide NECC training and multiyear maintenance services, the firm says.

“We believe the use of Caesar trauma patient simulators to train non-traditional medical units within the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command demonstrates a heightened awareness of the value of high-fidelity medical simulation, and how it provides a more efficient and standardized means of training for high-stakes environments,” CAE Healthcare President Michael Bernstein says in the statement. “CAE continues to extend its reach into the defense and security markets with simulation solutions that include not only mission training but also medical training.”

CAE Healthcare is a unit of Montreal based CAE, a $1.82 billion publicly traded firm. CAE bought the company in August 2011, when it was Medical Education Technologies Inc. That business grew into a global market leader in the lifelike human patient medical simulator business. CAE paid $130 million for METI.