Canada expands helicopter options for Afghanistan
Filed under: Boeing, Canada, Contract Awards, Military Aviation, production program
The Canadian government announced today that they are taking steps to improve the aviation assets for their troops in Afghanistan. See a story here. Up to now the Canadian ground forces relied on either Allied lift or use ground transportation. Now they are leasing Russian Mi-17 and buying CH-47D and F aircraft. The CH-47D will be used immediately, but the CH-47F will be new construction and available in 2013. The country is also leasing and buying UAV assets to support intelligence and surveillance operations.
SAC sliding Canadian contract
Filed under: Canada, Contract Awards, Military Aviation, Sikorsky, UTC, production program
The story out of Canada is that the contract to buy 28 H-92 aircraft from SAC is sliding to the right. There are also rumors of cost increases. The Canadian government is threatening to cancel the contract if delays and cost increases are true. Normally for a contract like this to buy an established system starts experiencing slips or cost growth there are usually requirement changes or the contractor didn’t really provide what the customer desired. There is no word yet on what has happened. It may be that Sikorsky was just a little aggressive in their schedule.
Fear of US export control laws lead Canada to deny sale of company
According to this article the Canadian government denied the sale of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.’s satellite business to Alliant Techsystems Inc. See a previous post about the planned sale here. Canada cited the fact that if the company became American the laws protecting US technology exports would deny Canada access to the company’s satellite that focuses on the Canadian Arctic. Due to several scandals in the Nineties the US ramped up the laws governing technology transfer and export and make it very difficult to do this. Read more
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