Asia Pacific Aerospace has won a A$49 million ($28million) Australian Department of Defence contract for maintaining General Electric T700 engines on Australian Army and Navy Sikorsky Black Hawk and Seahawk helicopters. The seven-year deal includes deep level maintenance, configuration management and training.
Bristow Helicopters has ordered two Bell 412s for use by the UK's Defence Helicopter Flying School, in a deal worth $11 million.
Signals Technology has received a $1 million Smiths Aerospace contract to develop the low-voltage power supply for stores management systems for the Boeing F/A-18E/Fand AV-8BHarrier.
Harris has been selected to supply the global positioning system anti-jam module for Boeing's offering in the US Air Force's Small Diameter Bomb competition. A downselect between Boeing and Lockheed Martin is planned for next year. Harris has also been selected to lead the communications portion of Lockheed Martin's offering for the US Army's Aerial Common Sensor competition.
HR Textron is to supply the primary and utility actuation systems for Boeing's X-45B unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) and its subsequent versions. The company supplied actuators and controllers for the X-45A technology demonstrator now in flight test. The largerX-45B is to be the precursor to an operational US Air Force UCAV.
The US Department of Defense has notified Congress of possible sales of Raytheon Standard SM-2 naval surface-to-air missiles to Canada and Japan. Canada has requested 12 SM-2 Block IIIA missiles and 12 Mk 13 Mod 0 canisters, which would be worth $19 million. Japan has requested 16 missiles and 16 canisters, making any deal worth up to $24 million.
Under a $162.4 million USAir Force contract, Boeing is to upgrade the global positioning system ground segment to support the modernised GPS IIR and IIF satellites that will introduce new civil and military signals.
Source: Flight International
