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 by Ryan Maass Washington (UPI) Mar 30, 2017
Northrop Grumman has been contracted by the U.S. Navy to upgrade navigation systems for E-2C Hawkeye aircraft operated by the government of France. The contract tasks Northrop Grumman with servicing cockpit systems and displays for three French navy-owned aircraft in compliance with International Civil Aviation Organization standards. The company received $11 million for the job. Work on the contract with be performed in Melbourne, Fla.; Cuers, France and several additional locations. The U.S. Department of Defense expects the work to be complete by July 2019. Northrop Grumman received $8.6 million in foreign military sales funds at the time of the contract award. The Naval Air Systems Command is the contracting activity. The E-2C Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning Aircraft is an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform operated by the U.S. Navy and several of its allies. The twin-engine plane is crewed by five people, and features all-weather airborne early warning and battle management systems.
Airbus military plane clients maintain delay penalties: sourceMadrid (AFP) March 30, 2017 The representatives of seven countries buying Airbus's troubled A400M military plane told the aviation giant Thursday they would maintain penalties over delivery delays after a meeting in Madrid, a source at the talks said. The A400M was commissioned jointly in 2003 by the governments of Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey, but since a delayed launch in 2013 it ha ... read more Related Links Aerospace News at SpaceMart.com
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