American planemaker Boeing Co (Boeing) and Canada’s CAE Inc. (CAE), have signed teaming agreements to increase levels of collaboration for platforms in Norway, Germany and Canada.
The agreements intend to embrace each company’s complementary capabilities to provide superior management, technical and cost-effective training solutions for the P-8A Poseidon programme. “These agreements aim to advance mission readiness for defence customers operating Boeing P-8 aircraft,” said Torbjorn Sjogren, Boeing Vice President and General Manager, Government Services. “Working together, Boeing and CAE can deliver outcome-based pilot and aircrew training, maintenance ground school, in-service support, and instructor training at the point of need.”
As a member of Team Poseidon in Boeing’s Canadian Multi-Mission Aircraft (CMMA) offering, CAE is part of a Canadian P-8 industrial footprint that builds on 81 Canadian partners on the platform. “Mission success depends on advanced preparation and rapid response,” said Daniel Gelston, CAE Defense & Security president. “As a premier provider in flight training and simulation, we leverage collaboration to create an agile network of proven training, simulation and in-service support solutions to deliver critical readiness for defence forces worldwide.”
The collaboration strengthens a long-standing relationship covering global commercial and defence portfolios. For over ten years CAE has delivered operational flight trainers on the Boeing P-8A platform supporting the U.S. Navy, Royal New Zealand Air Force and United Kingdom Royal Air Force. CAE Inc. is a Canadian manufacturer of simulation technologies, modelling technologies and training services to airlines, aircraft manufacturers, healthcare specialists, and defence customers. The company empower pilots, airlines, defence and security forces, and healthcare practitioners to perform at their best every day and when the stakes are the highest. Around the globe, CAE has over 13,000 employees in more than 200 sites and training locations in over 40 countries.
