Lockheed Martin will supply upgraded mission computers for the Boeing B-52H under a $30 million US Air Force contract. To conclude by 2009, the work will support sustainability of the type until 2040.

CAE USA has received a $38 million contract to supply two tactical operational flight and two weapons tactics trainers for the US Navy's Sikorsky MH-60S Knighthawk multimission helicopters during 2006. Options could expand the deal to more than $75 million.

Aselsan has received a $14 million contract to deliver command-and-control equipment for the Turkish air force's four Boeing 737 airborne early-warning aircraft from 2007.

DRS Technologies is to supply airborne instrumentation systems for rangeless air-combat training to Cubic Defense Applications. The work forms part of Cubic's 10-year, $525 million contract to provide the US Air Force's P5 combat training system programme.

CAE has received a $9.5 million contract to provide two Medallion-S visual systems to upgrade Boeing MH-47 Chinook and A/MH-6 Little Bird combat mission simulators for the US Army.

Source: Flight International