Honeywell has been selected by US Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve to supply colour displays for Lockheed Martin F-16 block 25/30/32s. Sweden has chosen the Turbomeca Arrius 2K2 engine for 20 AgustaWestland A109 helicopters ordered last month. Smiths Aerospace is to provide digital terrain system (DTS) ground collision avoidance capability for USAir Force F-16s under a $16 million follow-on contract. Smiths is also supplying dual avionics and flight management computers for the Boeing KC-767 tanker/transport. Harris is to supply digital video map computers to Boeing for an F/A-18E/F advanced crew station upgrade under a contract worth up to $20 million. Spar Aerospace has picked Rockwell Collins to supply flight management systems, displays, radar, autopilot, radios and collision avoidance system for the Greek air force Lockheed Martin C-130 avionics update under a $25 million subcontract. Thales Airborne Systems and Marubeni have signed deals to supply Ocean Master 100 radars to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force. One will equip a Shinmaywa US-1A Kai amphibian and the other a NAMCYS-11T trainer. Simula is to produce 490 cockpit airbag crash-protection systems for retrofit into US Army Sikorsky UH-60A/L Black Hawk helicopters under an $11.1 million contract. Thales Airborne Systems and Indonesian Aerospace (IAe) have signed a e50 million ($42.4million) contract to supply the Indonesian air force with three IAe CN235s with Thales' Airborne Maritime Situation Control System (AMACOS). General Atomics is to build 12 RQ-1 Predator unmanned air vehicles for the US Air Force under a $16 million follow-on contract. ITT Gilfillan has won a $143 million contract to supply six SPS-48E 3-D air defence radars to Egypt. AAI has won a $25.4 million contract to provide unmanned air vehicle (UAV) ground support equipment to an unnamed customer, believed to be South Korea.
Source: Flight International
