Post Tagged with: "maintenance"
US DoD C4ISR Spending to Focus on Maintenance of Existing Platforms
The large, multiyear, single prime contract model is yielding to a small, short-term, multivendor model in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) command and control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) market. By 2017, spending will focus on maintenance and incremental upgrades to mature technologies. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, US DoD C4ISR [...]
Sukhoi, Malaysia Sign $100 Mln Deal on Fighters’ Maintenance
Russian aircraft maker Sukhoi and the Malaysian Defense Ministry have signed a $100-million contract for the technical maintenance of Malaysia’s fleet of Su-30MKM fighters, said a spokesman for the organizing committee of the LIMA-2013 aerospace exhibition. The contract covers technical maintenance as well as supplies of spare parts for 18 Russian Su-30MKM fighters that were [...]
BAE Systems Wins US Navy Aircraft Maintenance Contract
BAE Systems has been selected by the U.S. Navy to maintain and service T-34, T-44 and T-6 trainer aircraft under a contract valued at approximately $400 million over five years. The company will perform scheduled inspections, along with required repairs, modifications and logistical support, for more than 300 aircraft operated by the Chief of Naval [...]
Indian airmen receive C-17 maintenance training
The Indian air force has begun sending about 100 airmen to Joint Base Charleston, S.C., to receive instruction from the 373rd Training Squadron Detachment 5, on how to operate the 10 C-17 Globemaster IIIs they recently purchased. “The Indian air force purchased the C-17s and they need the training because these Indian airmen are going [...]
Army Developing New Aircraft Maintenance Technologies
Researchers at the Army’s corporate laboratory are testing new technologies it created for the Federal Aviation Administration that could give commercial and military maintenance programs earlier warning of problems. Condition-based maintenance, known as CBM, Army Research Laboratory, or ARL, officials say, will get safer aircraft back in the air faster because it relies on repairing [...]
The Global Military Aviation MRO Market 2012-2022
This report is the result of our extensive market and company research covering the global military aviation MRO industry. It provides detailed analysis of both historic and forecast global industry values, factors influencing demand, the challenges faced by industry participants, analysis of the leading companies in the industry, and key news. Introduction and Landscape Why [...]
Defence-Industrial Issues: Employment, Skills, Technology and Regional Impacts
This second BASIC Trident Commission report focuses on issues around jobs, the maintenance of skills and technology and the regional economic concerns that will inevitably have an impact on political decisions. Professor Keith Hartley analyses the impacts arising from possible options and concludes that if a future government decided to cancel the programme we would [...]
Patria to Provide Helicopter Services to the Swedish Armed Forces
The Swedish Armed Forces Logistics, FMLOG, has selected Patria as the prime supplier of technical systems and maintenance support for the Swedish Armed Forces’ helicopters. The contract is an expansion of the current technical services and support agreement with the Swedish Armed Forces. The three-year contract has an option for additional two years. The agreement [...]
Saab to Provide Technical Maintenance, Support for Swedish Blackhawk Helicopters
The defense and security company Saab has signed a major support agreement with Sikorsky Aerospace Services regarding technical maintenance and support for Sweden’s Black Hawk helicopters. The support agreement is a framework agreement that establishes the manner in which Saab and Sikorsky Aerospace Services will support the Swedish Armed Forces. The parties have agreed to [...]


