BAE Systems announced that it has started consultations regarding 41 potential job losses at Chadderton site near Manchester and 16 potential job losses in the BAE Systems team at RAF Kinloss in Scotland. This follows the Government
Boeing has been awarded a $324 million Foreign Military Sales contract from the Electronics Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., to upgrade France’s fleet of four E-3F Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, as well as the fleet’s ground system.
A Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) stealth fighter became the fifth F-35 to begin flight operations, on February 3rd. The jet, known as BF-3, departed the runway near Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth plant at 4:02 p.m. CST for its first flight. During the one-hour sortie, F-35 Chief Test Pilot Jon Beesley
Thales announced that it has signed a contract with Dassault Aviation to provide maintenance support for avionics equipment on Rafale combat aircraft in service with the French armed forces. This ten-year fixed-price contract includes a range of extended services. The avionics support agreement with Thales flows from the comprehensive Rafale throughlife support contract awarded to
Pratt & Whitney has delivered the first F135 production engine for the F-35 Lightning II. The engine has accrued more than 13,000 hours in test during the development program.
Boeing and industry supplier HAVELSAN have completed installation of Mission Simulator and Mission Support Center hardware for Turkey’s Peace Eagle Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) program. The hardware installation was completed in October and November 2009 at the Peace Eagle Ground Support Center in Konya, Turkey. The team will next install software, then conduct
Boeing delivered a record five Apache Longbow Crew Trainers (LCTs) in 2009 and all five have been declared “ready for training.” The U.S. Army accepted two LCT deliveries at Fort Hood, Texas; one in Illesheim, Germany; and one at Fort Drum, N.Y. The Egyptian Air Force accepted the delivery of its first LCT in November,
Iridium Communications unveiled its next-generation
In late December 2009, French defense procurement agency DGA announced the contract award to Sagem (Safran group) for the development and supply of SLPRM V5, including three years of system maintenance services. The SLPRM (Syst
Boeing has been awarded a five-year In-Service Support contract for Project Wedgetail, Australia’s 737 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) program. The contract from Australia’s Defence Materiel Organisation is worth approximately US$600 million. Under the performance-based logistics (PBL) contract, Boeing will provide acquisition, program management, integration and engineering services. Boeing Defence Australia, a wholly owned
