ALLIEDSIGNAL Avionics has been awarded a $2 million contract to supply the US Air Force with 1,685 global-positioning system (GPS) receivers.
The equipment, an AlliedSignal Aerospace hand-held KLX 100 GPS receiver and a moving-map display will be used on USAF transports. The company must provide the equipment by 10 October. The "expedited" procurement results from the April Boeing CT-43 crash in Croatia, which killed the US Commerce Secretary Ronald Brown. The hand-held receivers will be used until integrated GPS sets are installed in US military fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. Many of the aircraft will also get flight-data and cockpit-voice recorders.
Source: Flight International
