- Vision Systems International has received orders worth over $80 million to produce more than 400 Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing Systems for Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, the US Air Force and the US Navy.
- Raytheon has received a $36.9 million contract to produce a further 30 ALR-67(V)3 radar warning receivers for the US Navy’s Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighters. Options on a further 54 units could boost the deal’s value to almost $110 million.
- Northrop Grumman will produce additional large aircraft infrared countermeasures systems for US Air Force Boeing C-17 and Lockheed Martin C-130 transports for $49.5 million.
- Boeing is to conduct a two-year risk-reduction study into a mid-life update to the French air force’s four E-3F airborne warning and control system aircraft under a $7.7 million contract.
- EADS subsidiary Dornier will provide support services during a planned capabilities upkeep programme upgrade to the German navy’s eight Lockheed Martin P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft.
- L-3 Communications’ Link Simulation and Training division has received a $51.9 million contract to produce six tactical operational flight trainers for the US Navy’s Boeing F/A-18C/D fighters.
- Finland has signed a contract with EADS Casa to acquire two C-295 transports, plus options on five more.
- Total Immersion Software and The Fighter Collection are to provide desktop trainers for the US Air National Guard’s upgraded Fairchild A-10C ground-attack aircraft.
- Raytheon has received an $8 million contract to develop a lightweight active electronically scanned array radar to support the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s integrated sensor structure programme.
- The US Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin Systems Integration-Owego a $76.5 million contract to produce 12 mission avionics systems for the Sikorsky MH-60R.
Source: Flight International
