Jordan has requested eight additional Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawks in a US foreign military sales deal valued at $22 million. US Congress has been notified of the potential $298 million sale of 30 modernised target acquisition and designation sights/pilot night vision sensors to the Netherlands to upgrade its Boeing AH-64Ds. Northrop Grumman has received a $160 million Boeing contract for MESA active-array radars to equip four 737 airborne early warning & control aircraft for delivery to Turkey between July 2007 and June 2008. Under a contract potentially worth $7.5 million, Orbital Sciences is to supply a suborbital rocket for the US Air Force's MTD-3B ballistic-missile technology demonstration in 2006 to test an advanced high-speed Earth penetrator. Three previous launches in 1995, 1997 and 1998 have demonstrated GPS-aided tracking and guidance technology. Rockwell Collins is to begin expansion of the Boeing CH-47F's Power PC/ethernet-based avionics to integrate the joint tactical radio system and improved data modem under a $6.4 million US Army contract. CPU Technology is to develop an enhanced central air data computer for the Lockheed Martin F-16A/B/C/D using commercial system-on-a-chip technology. Middle River Aircraft Systems is to produce thrust reversers for General Electric CF6-80C2 engines selected to power at least 44 Japanese C-X next-generation cargo transports. Heroux-Devtek is to supply the landing gear for Northrop Grumman's Global Hawk unmanned air vehicle under a C$6.6 million ($4.8 million) contract. Canada's Magellan Aerospace is to manufacture the outer combustor case diffuser assembly for the General Electric/Rolls-Royce F136 alternative engine for the Joint Strike Fighter under a C$0.9 million pre-development contract. US Navy Reserve Lockheed Martin C-130T crews are to train at CAE's Tampa, Florida, simulator centre under a contract potentially worth $12 million.
Source: Flight International
