CAE has won contracts valued at more than C$110 million, not including options, to provide a range of training systems and services for defence customers.
The contracts, which add to CAE’s third quarter fiscal year 2014 order intake, include a new program to provide Beechcraft T-44C aircrew training for the US Navy, a foreign military sale contract to provide an MH-60R Seahawk helicopter simulator for the Royal Danish Navy, and a contract from Beechcraft to provide a T-6C ground-based training system (GBTS) for the Mexican Air Force.
CAE USA will provide comprehensive T-44C aircrew training services at Naval Air Station (NAS) Corpus Christi in Texas.
Under terms of the contract, which was awarded as a nine-month base contract for US$3.5 million with an additional six one-year options valued at a total of more than US$30 million, CAE USA will provide T-44C aircrew training services under a contractor-owned, contractor-operated training program.
CAE will be providing classroom and simulator training for more than 500 students annually to support the Navy's T-44C aircraft, which is used for multi-engine intermediate and advanced flight training.
As part of the T-44C aircrew training program, CAE will be providing a suite of new T-44C training devices to ensure concurrency with the digital, glass cockpit avionics suite in the T-44C aircraft.
CAE was awarded a contract by the US Navy to develop an MH-60R mission operational flight trainer (MOFT) for the Royal Danish Navy under the US foreign military sale (FMS) program. CAE USA will be the prime contractor responsible for the design and manufacture of an MH-60R MOFT that will be delivered in 2016 to Karup Air Base in Denmark.
CAE was also awarded a contract from Beechcraft Corporation to develop a comprehensive T-6C GBTS for the Mexican Air Force (FAM).
The T-6C GBTS will include a T-6C operational flight trainer (OFT), computer-based classroom training systems, and courseware.
The T-6C GBTS is part of an overall training solution Beechcraft is providing to the Mexican Air Force that includes 12 T-6C+ military trainer aircraft.
CAE will provide a new program that will provide Beechcraft T-44C aircrew training for the US Navy
