Mon, Jun 06, 2011
C-130 AMP Low-Rate Initial Production Continues
Successfully
The U.S. Air Force has awarded a contract worth $61 million to
Boeing for two more C-130 Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) kits
and two Aircrew Training System devices as part of a low-rate
initial production (LRIP) contract that was first granted in
2010.
"We look forward to adding more aircraft to our line over the
next two years," said Tommy Jackson, C-130 AMP deputy program
manager for the U.S. Air Force. "Our team at Warner Robins Air
Force Base is modifying the cockpits of two C-130 aircraft that
were inducted in late 2010 and expect to have them completed this
year."
Boeing is building two new C-130 AMP Aircrew Training System
devices: a Weapon System Trainer and an Avionics Part Task Trainer.
The training devices will be developed at supplier CAE USA's Tampa,
FL, facility and delivered to the Arkansas Air National Guard C-130
AMP training center at Little Rock Air Force Base, AR, in 2014.
The contract announced Friday is the second Air Force agreement
in three months that approves the purchase of more AMP kits for the
C-130 Hercules. In December, an Acquisition Decision Memorandum
authorized the LRIP program to increase from 20 to 26 aircraft. A
total of six AMP kits have been approved for purchase and the two
at Warner Robins, GA, are the first to be installed. The third
C-130 scheduled for LRIP will be inducted in late 2011 and the
fourth in early 2012.
"Low-rate initial production is moving forward as planned," said
Mahesh Reddy, C-130 AMP program director for Boeing. "We are on a
deliberate path toward full rate production and a safer and more
cost-effective solution for the warfighter."
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