Raytheon Company has received a contract worth $459m for full-rate production of the VINSON / Advanced Narrowband Digital Voice Terminal (ANDVT) Cryptographic Modernisation (VACM) programme.

Awarded by the US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, the contract will be executed at Fort Wayne, Indiana, US, and Largo, Florida, US until 2021.

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A $47m-worth contract has been awarded to CAPCO LLC and Armtec Countermeasures Company for the replenishment of BBU-48 A/B impulse cartridges.

"The one-year contract will help improve the performance of the USAF’s C-130H aircraft fleet."

The contractors will renew the impulse cartridges operational with the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and NATO countries as part of the foreign military sales contract until June 2023.

The US Air Force (USAF) has awarded a contract to StandardAero to provide maintenance and related services for Rolls-Royce T56 engine for the USAF and the US Navy.

The one-year contract will help improve the performance of the USAF’s C-130H aircraft fleet.

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Sukhoi Civil Aircraft has received an order to supply third Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) regional jet to the Royal Thai Air Force.

The SSJ100 aircraft is expected to be delivered in 2018.

Pratt & Whitney has agreed to supply necessary parts for the sustainment of F119-PW-100 turbofan engines, under a $313.88m-worth contract modification.

Awarded by the US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center based at Wright-Patterson AFB, the modification is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) has received a contract worth $349.14m from the US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Robins Air Force Base to provide support services for MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles.

The contractual work will be performed at GA-ASI’s Poway facility in California, US, through the end of the year.

M1 Support Services LP has received a one-year contract modification to perform backshop and flight line maintenance works on 140 aircraft at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, US.

The contract worth $90.4m has been awarded by the US Air Combat Command (ACC), Joint Base Langley-Eustis Air Force Base.

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company has secured a $61.03m-worth contract modification from the US Air Force to provide a range of services including depot throughput and analytical condition inspections for F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, US, and Marietta, Georgia, US.

The one-year modification has been awarded by the US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hill Air Force Base.

Raytheon Company has secured a $37m-worth contract from the US Air Force to demonstrate new satellite communications for tactical users.

The contractual work will be performed in Marlborough, Massachusetts, US, up to September 2020.

The US Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Hill Air Force Base has awarded a $47.12m-worth contract to Honeywell International Inc. in support of the US Air Force aircraft.

Honeywell will supply wheels and brake spare parts for the military aircraft, under the five-year contract.

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