- AgustaWestland has awarded Selex Sensors and Airborne Systems a £20 million ($39 million) contract to equip the UK Royal Navy's Future Lynx helicopters with Seaspray 7000E electronically scanned radars. CAE UK has meanwhile received a £3.5 million contract to perform a full mission-simulator upgrade to support the navy's current Lynx HMA8 fleet. The work will reflect communications, identification friend-or-foe and defensive aids system enhancements to the Lynx airframe.
- Gulf Aerospace Maintenance (Gamco) has received a five-year contract worth $93.4 million to provide second-line maintenance support for the United Arab Emirates air force and air defence's BAE Systems Hawk trainers. The company has also been selected to perform heavy maintenance on the Tunisian air force's fleet of 10 Lockheed Martin C-130B/H transports, under a deal of undisclosed value.
- Qantas Defence Services will provide through-life support services for the Royal Australian Air Force's five Airbus A330-200 multirole tanker-transports under a deal with Australia's Defence Materiel Organisation. The agreement covers the delivery of spare parts, maintenance and training services from 2008.
- Northrop Grumman is to supply APN-241 low-power weather radars for the Portuguese air force's future fleet of five EADS Casa C-295s.
- The US Navy has awarded Boeing a $6.5 million contract to produce time-critical components for airborne electronic attack kits, to be integrated with low-rate initial production examples of the EA-18G Growler.
- The Royal Saudi Air Force's Boeing F-15S fighters are to receive multifunctional information distribution system terminals under a $34.8 million contract with Data Link Solutions.
- Cubic Defense Applications will provide Australia's first instrumented air combat training system under a $10 million contract, including pods and debriefing systems.
Source: Flight International
