• Boeing is to supply radar system improvement kits, including new computers and software, to upgrade Japan's four E-767 airborne warning and control system aircraft under a $108 million contact.
  • Northrop Grumman is to supply 54 APG-68(V)9 radars to Pakistan for new Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 50/52s, as well as modernised F-16s under a $99.5 million contract.
  • Boeing is to produce almost 12,900 Joint Direct Attack Munition precision-guided bomb kits for the US Air Force and Navy under a $296 million Lot 11 contract.
  • Lockheed Martin is to supply three Lantirn Extended Range targeting pods to the Royal Danish Air Force, and upgrade its existing 13 pods to the latest standard for $20 million.
  • BAE Systems/Rockwell Collins company Data Link Solutions is to supply high-power Link 16 terminals to Saudi Arabia for Boeing E-3 airborne warning and control system aircraft under a $16 million contract.
  • L-3 Link Simulation & Training is to supply the first of up to nine forward deployed trainers for sensor operators on the US Navy's Lockheed Martin P-3Cs. The modular device will be ready for training in March 2008.
  •  Cubic Defense Applications has been funded to integrate a reduced-size version of its tactical common datalink on the US Army's AAI RQ-7B Shadow unmanned air vehicle for an interoperability demonstration next year.
  •  The US Air Force has exercised a $113 million contract option under which Raytheon will provide continued field support for the Lockheed U-2's sensors and data links.
  • Thales UK/Elbit Systems joint venture I-TacS has selected APPH to provide the nose landing gear system for the British Army's WK450 unmanned air vehicles, to be provided under the service's Watchkeeper programme.
  • Terma will provide seven data acquisition, recording and telemetry pods to support testing of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter under a $6.5 million contract from Lockheed Martin.
  • DRS Technologies has won a $27.5 million contract from the Ogden Air Logistics Center to upgrade the equipment used by the USAF's Unmanned Threat Emitter electronic warfare training system at Nellis AFB in Nevada.



Source: Flight International

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