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An AAR business unit has received a five-year contract to support repair and maintenance of internal airlift and helicopter slingable unit containers for the U.S. Navy‘s Naval Special Warfare Group 2. AAR Mobility Systems will maintain more than 300 ISUs for East Coast units that are based out of Navy Joint Expeditionary Base-Little Creek in Virginia. The company’s mobile field service teams and […] More
A five-member team from the Defense Contract Management Agency embarked on a more than 9,400-mile journey to deliver a Boeing-built P-8A Poseidon military aircraft to Australia’s air force on Jan. 12, DCMA reported Wednesday. The more than 24-hour flight marks DCMA’s first direct foreign military aircraft delivery through the Poseidon program. The DCMA Boeing Seattle […] More
Australia’s defense department plans to invest $659 million in funds to support the operations of Boeing-built P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft. The Australian government will spend $250 million on a Boeing training simulator system at the country’s air force base in Edinburgh as well as $409 million to upgrade base facilities, with an early 2019 completion date, Australia’s defense department said […] More
A Boeing subsidiary has secured a $13.8 million contract to integrate navigation, communications and network connectivity updates to the U.S. Navy‘s future P-8A multimission maritime aircraft, Defense Systems reported Thursday. The report said Jeppesen Sanderson-built MilPlanner, FliteDeck Pro and on-board performance software tools will be incorporated into the P-8A Poseidon. Jeppesen aims to complete aircraft software upgrades […] More
Boeing has secured a two-year, $24.6 million modification to a previously awarded delivery order to perform additional engineering work on the U.S. Navy‘s P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft. The Defense Department said Thursday Boeing will support systems engineering technical and critical design reviews for P-8A’s Increment 3 Block 2 upgrades under the modification. Work will occur in Seattle, Washington and Greenlawn, New […] More
Boeing has secured a contract to supply portable trainer units designed to help the U.S. Navy‘s P-8A Poseidon aircrew and operators prepare for missions while in service outside of the country. The company said Tuesday it will deliver seven P-8A deployable mission readiness trainers to the service branch beginning in 2019. Seventy percent of the Navy’s P-8A training efforts at naval air stations in […] More
The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing a $42.5 million contract modification to deliver eight deployable mission readiness trainers for the service branch’s P-8A maritime aircraft. Boeing will also provide P-8A mode control panels and program management and engineering services under the modification, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division obligated the full amount of the […] More
Norway’s defense equipment authority has inked a deal to purchase five Boeing-built P-8A Poseidon from the U.S. for use in maritime surveillance operations of the Norwegian military, Naval Technology reported Friday. Naval Technology quoted Ine Eriksen Soreide, Norway’s defense minister, as saying the contract also covers the procurement of modern sensors, monitoring and support systems as well as anti-submarine weapons. The State […] More
The U.S. Navy has begun to conduct safe separation tests of a Lockheed Martin-built anti-submarine warfare weapon from Boeing-made P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, Flighglobal reported Wednesday. Stephen Trimble writes the High Altitude Anti-submarine warfare Weapon Capability is scheduled to undergo guided flight test in late fiscal 2017, which will permit program officials to potentially order 140 weapons in the […] More
Rockwell Collins has received a $27 million contract to establish the depot capability of the HF-121C communications system and miscellaneous radio components for the U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon aircraft. The activation stage follows the assessment of the P-8A radio component depot capability and the next phase covers sustainment plan and a potential public-private partnership, Rockwell Collins […] More
Boeing has turned over the first P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to the Royal Australian Air Force during a ceremony held at the company’s delivery center in Tukwila, Washington. Shelley Lavender, Boeing military aircraft president, handed the ceremonial keys for P-8A to Australian Chief of Air Force Leo Davies during the event, the company said Friday. Boeing based […] More
Northrop Grumman has obtained approval from Defense Department acquisition chief Frank Kendall to begin low-rate initial production of the company’s MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system for the U.S. Navy‘s surveillance operations. The Navy said Friday the milestone C decision represents the beginning of the production and deployment stage of the Triton UAS program. Sean Burke, Triton program manager at […] More
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