Serco Defence & Aerospace will provide continued maintenance, engineering and support services at the UK Royal Air Force's Northolt and Uxbridge bases under a follow-on contract worth £55 million ($98 million). To initially run through 2010, the deal could be extended through two one-year options.
L-3 Electrodynamics, teamed with Turkey's Aydin Yazilim ve Elektronik Sanayi, is to produce the crash-survivable memory unit for Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Honeywell is to develop a traffic collision avoidance system with formation-flying capability for US Air Force Boeing C-17 transports. The formation flying system will be available in 2006.
Tenix Defence Systems will provide software support for the Royal Australian Air Force's Lockheed Martin AP-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft under an award from RLM Holdings, which in 2000 received an initial five-year award worth A$15 million ($10.5 million). Options could increase this to A$200 million by 2011.
Goodrich will produce 80 ACES II ejection seats for South Korea's Boeing F-15K multirole fighters.
AAI is to train soldiers to use the US Army's new Aerovironment Raven hand-launched unmanned air vehicle under a $3 million contract.
The US Army has finalised a contract with the United Arab Emirates under which the UAE's Boeing AH-64D Apache attack helicopters will be equipped with BAE Systems' Helicopter Integrated Defensive Aids Suite.
BCF Designs and Ultra Electronics will provide the US Navy with 1,025 fuel quantity test sets for use with the Boeing F/A-18 Hornet, Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules, P-3COrion and Northrop Grumman EA-6BProwler.
Hamilton Sundstrand will deliver the supplemental electric power system for the US Air Force's Northrop Grumman/Boeing E-10AMulti-sensor Command and Control Aircraft under a contract with Honeywell.
Northrop Grumman is to supply 86 additional global-positioning inertial-navigation systems for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F/A-22 Raptor.
Source: Flight International
