RSAF Awards BAE Systems Support Contract For Typhoons

October 13, 2009 by Matthew Potter · 1 Comment
Filed under: BAE Systems, Business Line, Companies, Contract Awards, Countries, England, Events, Military Aviation, Saudi Arabia, development program, logistics, production program

A few years ago Eurofighter sold the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) seventy-two Typhoon advanced fighters. BAE Systems is one of the three major companies that make up Eurofighter which is also providing aircraft to Germany, England and Italy.

BAE Systems is under investigation by the English government for possible bribes involved in the deal with the Saudi military. Despite these allegations Saudi Arabia went ahead and awarded a logistics support contract to the company. The value of the contract was not announced but a similar award by England was worth over $700 million.

BAE Systems will provide logistical support, maintenance and parts as well as training for the RSAF under the contract for the next three years. This is not an uncommon contract where the provider of the hardware will also provide training and support possibly until the operator transitions to organic support or lets another contract.

Tags: bae systems, bribes, english government, logistical support, logistics support, royal saudi air force, saudi air force, Saudi Arabia, support contract, support maintenance

Successful first operational NATO assessment of a Eurofighter Wing — Press Release

July 2, 2009 by Matthew Potter · Comment
Filed under: Business Line, Companies, Countries, EADS, Germany, Italy, Military Aviation, production program

Successful first operational NATO assessment of a Eurofighter Wing

Excellent results were achieved after the first operational evaluation made by NATO of a Eurofighter Typhoon Wing. A NATO evaluation team certified the Italian Air Force’s 4th Fighter Wing at the Grosseto Base as a NATO Quick Response Force.
This means that the 4th Wing becomes the first Eurofighter flight unit to obtain this important NATO certification.
The operational evaluation took place during the “Operation Discrete Jury” exercise, which tested the ability of the 4th Wing to be deployed abroad for peace-keeping and peace-making missions.

The exercise involved many air wings’ activities, from rescue to telecommunication services, self-defence and survival capabilities and, more particularly, logistic support, maintenance and flight operations. It was in this very field that the operations of the Grosseto Base’s Typhoons were positively evaluated, having demonstrated excellent operational availability and compliance with national and NATO’s operational requirement.

Enzo Casolini, Eurofighter CEO, said: “We are very pleased that the first Wing of Eurofighter Typhoon has achieved such an important goal. This clearly demonstrates the maturity of the Eurofighter programme as well as highlighting the capabilities of the aircraft and its operational availability which reached a very high level”.

The 4th Fighter Wing, together with the 5th Wing of Cervia, the 36th of Gioia del Colle and the 37th of Trapani, is one of the Italian Air Force units assigned to the control of Italian airspace 24 hours a day all year round.
Within the 4th Fighter Wing, the 20 Squadron is also active with its twin-seat Typhoons which are tasked with the “transition” of Italian pilots assigned to the Eurofighter Squadrons.

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Northrop Grumman Receives Facilities Contract

October 5, 2008 by admin · Comment
Filed under: Contract Awards, Department of Defense, Northrop Grumman Corp.

Northrop Grumman has received a $13 million, 3 year contract from the the U.S. Central Command to provide facilities maintenance and operations support to the its headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., and forward headquarters in Doha, Qatar. The contract requires Northrop Grumman provide CENTCOM with support in four functional areas, location transition support, maintenance and operations support, logistics services support, and project/facilities management.

The contract was awarded through the U.S. General Services Administration.

Tags: air force base, central command, doha qatar, facilities maintenance, facilities management, functional areas, general services administration, grumman, logistics services, macdill air force, macdill air force base, northrop grumman, Northrop Grumman Corp., support maintenance, transition support

AECOM awarded US$78.8-million, 6-month extension to U.S. Army maintenance contract

March 18, 2010 by Business Wire Defense: Contracts News · Comment
Filed under: Syndicated Industry News

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AECOM Technology Corporation (NYSE: ACM), a leading provider of professional technical and management support services for government and commercial clients around the world, announced today that it has been awarded a US$78.8-million, 6-month extension contract to support U.S. Army operations in Afghanistan. Under the U.S. Army’s global maintenance support and service (also known as “GMASS”) contract, AECOM will provide general-support maintenance