An L-3 Communications subsidiary has received a potential one-year, $13.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide logistics, repair and maintenance support services for the Chief of Naval Air Training. The indefinite-delivery, firm-fixed-price modification awarded to L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace exercises an option on a previously awarded contract and covers direct and indirect material, equipment, […] More

L-3 Communications‘ MAPPS division has received a contract from China-based joint venture Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power to help update the reactor core model on the Hongyanhe Phase I nuclear power site’s simulator. MAPPS said Tuesday it will provide the Orchid Core Builder graphical utility that will work to create and validate the simulator’s cycle-specific reactor core data. The updated Comet Plus reactor […] More

L-3 Communications has been chosen to supply electro-optical and infrared designating turrets for the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters of a Middle Eastern defense customer under a foreign military sales agreement. New York City-headquartered L-3 said Tuesday its Wescam MX-10D EO/IR turrets will work to help the customer execute counterterrorism missions from UH-60s helicopters. The company added its integrated sensor systems segment began to […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded an L-3 Communications subsidiary a $21.9 million modification to exercise the first option on a previously awarded contract for contractor-owned and operated business jet training services. L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace will provide the training services to support the Navy’s maritime air patrol, low/slow terrorist aircraft, air interdiction and air intercept/anti-submarine missions, the Defense […] More

An L-3 Communications division has received an initial $23.5 million task order to provide training systems to the U.S. Air Force as part of a potential seven-year, $200 million contract awarded in April. L-3 said Wednesday its link simulation and training division will act as prime contractor on the Air Force’s Warfighter Readiness & Training program that seeks advanced tools for the military branch to train and […] More

L-3 Communications‘ link simulation and training division has won a $38.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a flight crew training system for the service branch’s airborne warning-and-control system aircraft. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will perform work on the Diminishing Manufacturing Sources Replacement of Avionics for Global Operations and Navigation program in […] More

L-3 Communications has received a nine-year $160 million, subcontract from Bollinger Shipyards to provide an integrated C4ISR system for the U.S. Coast Guard‘s future Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters. L-3 said Monday it will provide initial design updates to the FRC ships such as antenna arrangement and analysis, exterior communications and other situation awareness platforms. The company will also deliver, […] More

An official with L-3 Communications has said the company is ready to offer to international customers a new aircraft designed to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, FlightGlobal said Wednesday. Craig Hoyle writes John Koziol, vice president of ISR systems at L-3, made the announcement after the company launched the Spydr II aircraft at the […] More

General Atomics’ aeronautical systems unit has ordered electro-optical and infrared designator systems from L-3 Communications’ WESCAM division for installation on a General Atomics-built remotely piloted aircraft. General Atomics will integrate L-3’s MX-15D EO/IR designators onto the Predator XP RPA for an international military client, L-3 said Tuesday. The MX-15D features large-aperture, long focal-length optics and patented four-axis gimbal technology designed to support intelligence, surveillance and […] More

L-3 Communications has completed system updates to a C-130 military transport aircraft for Argentina under the U.S. Air Force‘s foreign military sales program. The company’s platform integration division refreshed the aircraft’s communication, navigation, air traffic management and critical environmental and power systems, L-3 said Tuesday. The updated C-130 is the first of five aircraft slated for avionics and […] More

An L-3 Communications division has secured an order from an agency in Finland to supply infrared imaging tools for installation onboard Airbus Group-built H215 helicopters. L-3 WESCAM will integrate its MX-15 electro-optical and infrared imaging systems with Finnish Border Guard’s H215 aircraft designed for use in search-and-rescue and maritime border patrol missions, L-3 Communications said Monday. […] More

L-3 Communications has received a potential three-year, $19 million contract to develop a Radio Frequency Continuous Wave Microwave Power Module amplifier for the U.S. Navy. The Naval Research Laboratory awarded the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a competitive procurement process with three bids received, the Defense Department said Friday. DoD said NRL will use the RF CW MPM amplifiers […] More