Elbit Systems /Rockwell Collins joint venture Vision Systems International has received contracts worth over $100 million to produce and support an additional 500 Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems for the US Air Force and Navy.
Boeing has received a contract worth more than $38 million for Lot 2 low-rate initial production under Increment I of the US Air Force’s 250lb (113kg) Small Diameter Bomb programme.
Logistics Services International is to receive up to $30 million by 2010 to support Pakistan’s planned introduction of ex-US Navy Lockheed P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft.
Boeing has selected EDO to design and develop a pneumatic ejector bomb rack for the US Navy’s planned fleet of 108 P-8A Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft. The work will be worth up to $7.2 million.
Gulfstream Aerospace is to provide continued maintenance services for the Egyptian air force’s nine civil-registered Gulfstream transports until October 2006 under a $9.5 million deal.
Northrop Grumman has awarded Smiths Aerospace the first $4 million from a deal worth at least $30 million to develop and produce the flight- management and integrated standby instrument systems for the US Navy’s E-2D Hawkeyes.
Turkey’s Havelsan has selected Evans & Sutherland to produce EPX-500/5000 image generators and a visual database to support Turkish army and navy Sikorsky S-70 helicopters. The Helisim programme includes three flight simulators and other flight-training devices.
Harris has secured an $18.2 million deal to produce anti-jam global positioning system modules for Boeing’s Joint Direct Attack Munition guidance kits. Future options could increase this value to over $50 million by 2008.
The UK Royal Air Force has awarded Thales a five-year contract to provide continued support services for its intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance mission support system.
Source: Flight International
