Realizing cost savings from systematic software reuse through component-based development strategies has traditionally been a challenging undertaking. Software component reuse will never occur automatically; it must be strongly supported by management, methodology, and process. Factors including technical, managerial, and economic have hastened the failure of many corporate reuse initiatives in the software development industry (Frankes and Fox 1996). For the U.S. Army Program Executive Office (PEO) Simulation Training and Instrumentation (STRI), Program Manager for Training Devices (PM TRADE), their software reuse initiative was further compounded by the complications of coordinating the development of a software product line among several different government contracting corporations who view themselves as competitors. The objective of the PM TRADE product line is to achieve a reduction of software development and maintenance cost by maximizing component reuse and to reduce product fielding times while enhancing training benefits to the Soldier. Through successful execution of the product line strategy, PM TRADE will deliver a set of common components that provide integrated and interoperable training solutions for live collective training across the home stations, Combat Training Centers (CTCs), deployed, and joint training domains. This paper describes the innovative approach PM TRADE is using to establish a LT2 Homestation Instrumentation Training System (HITS) Command & Control (C2). The LT2 HITS C2 Core Software is being developed primarily from a reuse of existing LT2 software components created for use in other live training systems. It is the intent of this paper to capture the successes and failures while implementing this strategy to assist similar projects in the future and further the PM TRADE product line strategy.