Thales Avionics is to modify the flight controls on the Bombardier Global Express platform for the Airborne Stand Off Radar system under development by Raytheon for the UK Ministry of Defence.
DRS Technologies will supply over 30 EAS3000deployable cockpit voice- and flight- data recorders for installation on all Royal Australian Navy Westland Sea King and Sikorsky Seahawk helicopters, under a $2.1 million contract.
EADS Dornier has received a €50 million ($44 million) contract from the French and German governments to equip 160 Eurocopter Tigers with the EuroGrid digital map.
The US Congress has been notified of the proposed sale to Oman of $42 million-worth of weapons, including 100 Raytheon Paveway II laser-guided bombs, 50 Boeing Joint Direct Attack Munitions and 50 Textron Sensor Fuzed Weapons, for its planned Lockheed Martin F-16s. Jordan has been offered a Lockheed Martin FPS-117 long-range air-defence radar in a deal worth $22 million.
CAE has delivered a simulation-based "e-learning" trial system to the German Army Aviation School for procedures training on the Sikorsky CH-53 helicopter. Training is delivered to desktop or laptop computers via intranet or internet.
Raytheon Aerospace has awarded Rockwell Collins Aviation Services a 10-year contract to support avionics on the US Air Force's 180 Raytheon T-1As at a fixed price per flight hour.
The University of Dayton Research Institute is to develop inspection and maintenance technologies to extend the service lives of Pratt & Whitney F100 and General Electric F110 engine disks and rotors under a $14 million US Air Force Research Laboratory contract.
The Italian air force has selected the General Electric CF6-80C2 to power four Boeing 767 tanker/transports, which will be delivered starting in 2005. The value of the engine contract is around $80 million.
TRW is develop a new liquid target booster under a $29 million contract from the US Missile Defense Agency.
Source: Flight International
