Military

CAE Wins New Contracts

By Tish Drake | August 26, 2009
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CAE was awarded a series of military contracts with $91 million with Eurocopter, Airbus Military and L-3 Communications. For Eurocopter, CAE will perform major upgrades on two CAE-built CH-53 full-mission simulators operated at the German Army Aviation School at Buckeburg. Eurocopter will be upgrading 40 CH-53 helicopters for the German Army with new avionics, communications systems, night vision capabilities, and other new functionalities.  For Airbus, CAE will provide A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) training devices to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF).  CAE will design and manufacture an A330 MRTT part-task trainer and CAE Simfinity® integrated procedures trainer for each customer. And for L-3 Communications MAS (Canada) will provide providing avionics software upgrades, integrated logistics support and data management services for the Canadian Forces CF-18 aircraft. L-3 MAS has been prime contractor on the CF-18 service and support program since 1986 and CAE has been performing systems engineering support services for the CF-18 fleet for more than twenty years.

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