US Navy Air Systems Command and Boeing have signed a contract to remanufacture three Spanish Navy Boeing/BAE Systems EAV-8B "day attack Harriers". This is in addition to the two contracted for in May last year. The UK's Claverham has been selected by Saab Bofors Dynamics to produce the fin actuation system for the RBS15 Mk3 anti-ship missile. Raytheon Missile Systems has been awarded a $37.6 million contract modification to restructure AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) full rate production. The company has also received a $12.9 million contract for 76 JSOW telemetry kits. The US Marine Corps has launched a $200 million programme to improve the engine reliability of its Boeing CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter fleet by installing new core modules in the General Electric T58 turboshafts. The reliability improvement programme will restore time between overhauls from 360h to the original target of 900h and eliminate a 5% power loss. The first prototype T58-16A will be delivered in the second quarter of next year, with production deliveries planned for mid-2003. Boeing has selected L-3 Communications' Electrodynamics subsidiary to upgrade the T-45 Goshawk's airborne data recorder to provide more flight and engine data, with the goal of reducing engine maintenance costs on the US Navy jet trainer. The contract is worth $3 million. BAE Systems is to supply its UPX-37 digital identification friend-or-foe interrogator for ITT Gilfillan's Mobile Approach Control System, in production for the USAir Force. The initial contract, worth $500,000, marks the first land-based application of the US Navy's standard shipboard interrogator. Raytheon is to upgrade its widely used ALR-69 radar warning receiver to improve threat detection, identification and situation awareness under a $26 million US Air Force contract. Three prototype and five pre-production units will be used for flight testing on the Lockheed Martin C-130 andF-16. Production begins in 2004.
Source: Flight International
