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 by Allen Cone Washington DC (UPI) Apr 12, 2018
The U.S. Navy awarded Harris Corp. a $14.9 million contract to procure 144 fiber channel network switch systems for several aircraft. The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is a modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract. The communications devices for the Navy, and the governments of Australia and Kuwait, are to be used on the F/A-18E/F, EA-18G and E-2D. Work, which will be performed at Harris' plant in Malabar, Fla., is projected to be completed in February 2020. Exercising the contract option combines purchases for the Navy at $8.7 million, Australia at $2.7 million and Kuwait at $3.5 million. Harris has been allocated the full value of the contract from Fiscal 2017 Navy aircraft procurement funds, Navy research, development, test and evaluation funds and Foreign Military Sales funds. A total of $210,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year, the Pentagon said.
Airbus aiming to step up A320neo production Amsterdam, Netherlands (AFP) April 11, 2018 Airbus aims to boost production of its A320neo aircraft and step up deliveries in the second quarter of the medium-haul carrier despite persistent engine woes, chief executive Tom Enders said Wednesday. In 2018 "we do expect to deliver around 800 commercial aircraft," Enders told the European aircraft maker's annual general assembly in Amsterdam. But he cautioned: "It is not going to be a walk in the park." "We will not deliver aircrafts without engines, we have many gliders parked today in ... read more
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