CAE‘s U.S. business unit plans to open a new flight training facility in Dothan, Alabama, by spring 2017 as part of the aerospace and defense contractor’s $75 million capital investment in the state. CAE USA expects to provide integrated classroom instruction, simulator training and live-training services to more than 450 U.S. Army fixed-wing aviators and U.S. Air Force C-12 twin turboprop […] More

CAE has secured contracts worth approximately $91.2 million combined from international military customers to provide aircrew training services and simulation system updates. The Montreal-headquartered company said Tuesday the contracts include awards from the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Austria’s armed forces. “Our large installed base of existing training devices and simulation systems provide ongoing upgrade and update opportunities along with long-term service […] More

CAE‘s U.S. business has received the first three Grob-built G120TP aircraft that will support the U.S. Army‘s Fixed-Wing Flight Training program designed to help rotary-wing aviators transition as pilots to the service branch’s fixed-wing aircraft. The company CAE said Wednesday it has also started to work with an initial group of instructor pilots in preparation for the start of […] More

A United Technologies Corp. unit has begun flight trials of a vehicle health monitoring platform to assess the airworthiness of sensors onboard the U.S. Air Force’s C-5 Galaxy aircraft. The flight tests on the UTC Aerospace Systems-built Pulse Health Monitoring System are part of a contract awarded by the service branch to Metis Design, UTC said […] More

CAE has added a new full-mission simulator to its Tampa, Florida-based C-130 training center as part of an effort to help fulfill the training requirements of Hercules airlifter pilots. The C-130H/L-382 simulator incorporates the Flight2 glass cockpit avionics system from Rockwell Collins, the CAE Medallion-6000 image generator for synthetic environment on a display system driven by Sony […] More

CAE has secured defense and security contracts amounting to $59.2 million in total for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016 to provide training and simulation equipment and services. The company said Thursday it received contract awards from the NATO Support and Procurement Agency, Public Works and Government Services Canada and the U.S. Air Force. Gene […] More

CAE’s U.S. business unit has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force to update and link the KC-135 aircrew training platforms to the service branch’s Distributed Training Center Network. The contract with the Air Mobility Command covers updates to the tanker aircraft’s boom operator weapon systems trainers and operational flight trainers to help facilitate the Mobility […] More

CAE‘s U.S. business unit has received authorization from the U.S. Navy to begin technology refresh work on simulator and training systems for the service branch’s fleet of MH-60 Seahawk helicopters. The company said Wednesday the Navy gave the signal for CAE to proceed following the Government Accountability Office‘s decision over a bid protest on the MH-60R/S Tech Refresh […] More

CAE has secured multiple contracts worth a combined $250 million to deliver full-flight simulators and training services to various civilian aviation customers globally. The company said Monday it will support pilot and technician training programs of more than 10 business aircraft operators in the U.S., Asia, Europe and the Middle East. A North American operator awarded CAE a four-year contract to help train its […] More

Ray Duquette, president and general manager of CAE‘s U.S. arm, has said the company builds simulation technology to replicate what the company believes will happen to pilots during military or commercial aircraft flights, the Tampa Tribune reported Saturday. “We do both training and mission rehearsal with multiple simulators networked,” Duquette told Tribune reporter Yvette Hammett in an interview. “We […] More

CAE has secured a subcontract from logistics support contractor ADS to provide the U.S. Air Force with a fuselage training platform designed to train aeromedical evacuation crews for emergency procedures on both KC-135 tanker aircraft and C-17 transport planes. CAE will equip the C-17/KC-135 Aeromedical Evacuation Training System with medical patient simulators and a mission system that […] More

CAE has been awarded several contracts worth at least $91 million combined that cover training services, flight simulators and magnetic anomaly detectors for Lockheed Martin and two other defense customers. CAE USA will provide training services and perform courseware development work for the U.S. Air Force related to MQ-9 Reaper and MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft […] More