Lockheed Martin is to produce up to 1,212 kits to retrofit US Air Force F-16C/Ds with Northrop Grumman onboard oxygen generating systems under a contract potentially worth $184 million. The retrofit is planned for 2005.
Raytheon is to supply eight SeaVue maritime surveillance radars to EADS Casa to equip modernised Mexican navy C212 patrol aircraft, with another order for 12 radars expected next year.
Asia Pacific Aerospace is taking over from Qantas the deep maintenance and system support of General Electric T700s powering Australian army Sikorsky S-70A Black Hawks and navy S-70B Seahawks and Kaman SH-2G Super Seasprites, under a 13-year contract worth A$6.8 million ($3.7 million) annually.
Under a $12 million contract, L-3 Communications will overhaul and upgrade two US Air Force Lockheed MartinEC-130HCompass Call stand-off jamming aircraft, the first to be updated to Block 35 configuration.
Northrop Grumman has received a $9.5 million contract to provide a software development laboratory for two upgraded E-2THawkeye 2000E airborne early warning aircraft ordered by Taiwan in 1999.
Raytheon is to produce 202 GBU-10 and 206 GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bomb kits for US foreign military sales under a $6.6 million contract.
Robertson Aviation is to provide crashworthy external fuel systems for 117 US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters under a $21.1 million contract.
BAE Systems is to deliver 52 multi-mode receivers under a $2 million contract to equip US Navy Lockheed Martin P-3C Orions with an FM-immune instrument landing system for operations in Europe.
Rolls-Royce has won a five-year contract from the UK Ministry of Defence for overhaul of the RB211-524B4 engines on the Royal Air Force's nine Lockheed L1011-500 TriStars. The contract is to cover 33 engines and could be worth $130 million.
Saab Bofors Dynamics and STN Atlas have been awarded a $117 million contract to deliver new air defence systems to the Finnish defence forces.
Source: Flight International
