The Canadian Department of National Defence has awarded Serco an 11-year, C$559 million ($375 million) contract to provide support services - including air traffic control, emergency and security services as well as accommodation and personnel support - to 5 Wing at the Goose Bay airbase. Goose Bay is used by the air forces of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK.
Boeing has received a $73.6 billion US Air Force contract for "Block 1" modification of the E-4B national command post aircraft.
Northrop Grumman has won a $14.5 million contract to install a number of upgrades in two French navyE-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft.
New Zealand has completed the purchase of two Boeing 757s for strategic air transport.
Alenia Marconi Systems has been awarded a £2.15 million ($3.4million) UK Ministry of Defence contract to assess upgrade paths for the Type 996 surveillance radar, which is the primary air defence radar on Royal Navy warships.
Northrop Grumman has received a $19.7 million US Air Force order to upgrade Litening II targeting pods for Lockheed Martin F-16s. An order for 24 Litening II pods for USAF Boeing F-15s is worth $32.6 million (Flight International, 28 January-3 February).
Evans &Sutherland Computer has received a three-year, $10.8 million US Navy contract to "conceptualise, create and test an architecture" to allow sensor and imagery data from different sources to be rapidly validated, correlated, distributed and displayed in a standard format for simulator image databases.
Paradigm Services has received a UK Ministry of Defence "multi-activity contract" to provide support services at four bases used by the Royal Air Force's 1001 Signals Unit. The work - which will be subcontracted to Paradigm team member Serco - will be performed until Paradigm provides the complete Skynet 5 military satellite communications system.
Source: Flight International
