Textron Secures Potential $677M Navy Training Aircraft Production Contract - GovCon Wire

A Textron (NYSE: TXT) subsidiary volition manufacture up to 64 multi-engine grooming systems to regenerate the U.S. Navy’s T-44C Pegasus trainer level nether a imaginable $677.2 cardinal contract.

Naval Air Systems Command said Wednesday the subdivision initially ordered 10 craft for astir $113.1 cardinal done the firm-fixed-price contract awarded to Textron Aviation.

The institution volition supply spares, enactment instrumentality and grooming services to naval aviators arsenic portion of the agreement.

“The T-54A volition see the latest avionics and navigational updates, specified arsenic virtual world and augmented world devices, to guarantee pilots are acceptable to look immoderate challenges that travel their mode successful tomorrow’s battlespace,” said Capt. Holly Shoger, programme manager of the Naval Undergraduate Flight Training Systems Program Office.

Textron Aviation volition incorporated integer displays, ultra precocious and precise precocious radios, automatic babelike surveillance-broadcast, radars and an integrated planetary positioning and inertial navigation strategy into the METS aircraft.

Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps pilots volition usage the T-54A to larn however to run V-22 Osprey, C-130 Hercules, E-2D Hawkeye and P-8 Poseidon and planes.

NAVAIR expects the institution to present the caller craft wrong the 2024-2026 timeframe and plans to sunset the bequest T-44C six months aft the archetypal transportation is completed.