Raytheon is to replace AGM-154A JSOW stand-off weapons used during the Iraq war under a $48.5 million US Navy contract. The company will also produce 815 Paveway II laser-guided bomb kits under an $11.6 million US Air Force contract. Lockheed Martin is to produce 1,497 wind-corrected munitions dispenser tail kits under a $24.6 million USAF contract.
Lockheed Martin is to build a cockpit procedures trainer for the Sikorsky MH-60S under a $14.1 million US Navy contract.
Rockwell Collins subsidiary Kaiser Electro-Optics is to provide a head-up display for the remote aerial refuelling operator on the Boeing KC-767A tanker/ transport.
Pratt & Whitney is to mature technology for icephobic coatings and organic matrix composites for the F135 Joint Strike Fighter engines under a $23 million USN contract.
Raytheon Canada is to provide total life-cycle support for 21 Canadian Forces Phalanx close-in weapon systems under a C$21 million ($15.6 million) contract.
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory is to provide a prototype silicon oscillating accelerometer for use in a miniature low-cost, high-reliability, solid-state inertial instrument, under a $7.2 million US Air Force Research Laboratory contract.
ATK (Alliant Techsystems) has received a $92 million Raytheon propulsion systems contract to support initial deployment of the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) with the USN, which will equip Aegis air defence ships.
CAE has received a C$3 million order for magnetic anomaly detection equipment to be fitted to Turkish Navy EADS Casa CN235 maritime patrol aircraft.
Heroux-Devtex and Boeing have signed a C$17 million deal for the Canadian company to supply components for the X-45 Joint Unmanned Combat Air System. Options are worth a further C$50 million.
Goodrich will upgrade the fuel control units of Australia's Boeing F/A-18 Hornets.
Thales Raytheon Systems has received a $5.9 million contract modification for additional Battle Control System-Fixed Spiral 1 sites for the USAF.
Source: Flight International
