Raytheon has received a US Air Force contract, potentially worth $250 million over five years, to support all U-2 sensors, datalinks and ground systems. Raytheon has also won a four-year $130 million contract to provide contractor logistic support for the US Navy's 116 Bell TH-57B/C training helicopters. Racal Avionics has been awarded a UK Ministry of Defence multi-million pound contract to provide TACAN services in the UK and at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and RAF Gibraltar. It begins later this year and runs until 2008. British Aerospace has selected the Meggitt Avionics secondary flight display system for 33 Hawk lead-in fighters on order for the Royal Australian Air Force. Sweden's Celsius has been selected to provide radar warning systems as part of a mid-life upgrade to German air force and navy Panavia Tornados. Martin Baker has won a US Navy $20 million contract for the design, integration and installation of up to 210 shipsets of crashworthy utility seats for Sikorsky CH-53 helicopters. About 52 aircraft will be equipped a year with each shipset comprising 31 seats. General Dynamics Information Systems is to upgrade Canadian Forces' Boeing CF-18 mission computers under a $16 million contract. GD will supply 170 upgrade kits beginning in August next year. Subsidiary Computing Devices Canada will support the upgrade, which will allow future incorporation of the GD/BAe TERPROM-based terrain avoidance warning system. Honeywell is to develop an upgraded processor for the Bell OH-58D Kiowa Warrior under a $14 million US Army contract, to support joint variable message format operations allowing the real-time transfer of battlefield information, including video. Raytheon has received a $45 million US Army contract for full-rate production of the Improved Target Acquisition System for the ground-launched TOW anti-tank missile, with deliveries to begin in late 2001.
Source: Flight International
