* Raytheon is to produce 189 AGM-154C Joint Stand Off Weapons for the US Navy under its first, $56 million full-rate production contract for the hardened-target glide munition.
* Bell/Agusta Aerospace has received an $83 million contract to equip the United Arab Emirates air force with eight AB139 helicopters for search and rescue and VIP transport duties.
* Telephonics will develop the APS-143(V) 3 surveillance radar for the US Coast Guard's EADS Casa CN-235 maritime patrol aircraft and the RDR-1700CG for its Bell HV-911 tiltrotor unmanned air vehicle under a $7 million contract.
* Boeing is to install solid-state recorders in 210 F/A-18E/F Super Hornets to allow the sharing of target images under a $13 million deal with the US Navy.
* Rada Electronics Industries has received a $920,000 contract from Israel Aircraft Industriesto supply avionics computers for unmanned air vehicles.
* Elbit Systems has received a $30 million contract to equip the Israeli air force's helicopters with a new command and control mission management system.
* Northrop Grumman is to upgrade the Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures system with the Guardian pointer/tracker assembly and Viper laser under a $24million US Air Force development contract.
* Sabreliner will provide depot support for the US Air Force's 76 C-21As (Learjet 35As) under a contract potentially worth $17 million over seven years.
* Atlantis Systems International is to update the US Navy's Boeing E-6 Tacamo maintenance trainer and provide additional student stations for the navy's Boeing F/A-18 virtual maintenance trainers under contracts totalling $3 million.
* Environmental Tectonics has sold a GAT-II general-aviation trainer to the Romanian air force for spatial disorientation training.
* The US Army has increased fiscal year 2005 production of AAI Shadow tactical unmanned air vehicle systems from eight to nine with the award of an additional $14.5 million contract.
Source: Flight International
