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The US Coast Guard has awarded Lockheed Martin a five-year indefinite delivery/
indefinite quantity training and technical support services contract. The contract, which includes
a $90,000 initial task order, has a $57 million ceiling value.
Working closely with the Coast Guard, Lockheed Martin will identify and hire specialised
instructors in areas such as aviation, operations and engineering; conduct performance
analysis and assist with instructor improvement programs; and develop curricula and advanced
distributed learning modules.
Training and support services will be provided for up to 12 Coast Guard training sites located
in Mobile, Alabama, Alameda and Petaluma, California, New London, Connecticut,
Washington, D.C., Camp Lejeune and Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Cape May, New Jersey,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Charleston, South Carolina, and both Chesapeake and
Yorktown in Virginia. http://www.lockheedmartin.com
REMUS 6000 unmanned submarines have now discovered the location of the missing Air
France Airbus 330-200 aircraft at 3,900 m depth in Atlantic ocean. The aircraft, Air France
flight 447, was flying between Rio de Janeiro and Paris nearly two years ago on June 1,
2009. The wreckage was found 600 miles off the Brazilian coast on the floor of the Atlantic
ocean at 3,900 m (12,800 ft) below sea level.
Flight 447 went down when flying through a severe thunderstorm. All 228 passengers and
crew members died in the crash. The actual cause of the accident has not yet been identified
with certainty. Only some pieces of the aircraft were found drifting on the ocean surface
while the main parts of the aircraft and the precious flight recorders sunk to the sea floor
and have not been located yet despite three search campaigns in the two years following
the accident.
The fourth campaign started on March 22 under the supervision of the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts on behalf of the the BEA (Bureau d'Enquête
et d'Analyse), France's air crash investigation authority.
Three autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were used to search the sea floor for the
wreckage. The discovery is a major step to discover the causes of the Air France crash.
The BEA announced that phase 5 of the investigation will involve recovering all parts of the
aircraft and hopefully the flight recorders although one has already been found without its
recording interior intact. [Allied Vision Technologies GmbH/PAR]
The EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) issued Airborne Technologies GmbH the
STC (Supplemental Type Certificate) 10034631, certifying the TECNAM Multi Mission Aircraft
(MMA) for use as an airborne surveillance platform.
Airborne Technologies selected the TECNAM P2006T twin as ideal potential aerial basis
platform for performing sensitive surveillance mission and surveying operations, the engineering
team developed a set of modifications to this all metal, high wing aircraft to evolve it
into today’s TECNAM MMA.
The extensive modifications which are endorsed via the EASA STC include the creation of a
large in-floor hatch with electrically operated doors, mission power supply (28 VOLTS, 60
AMPS) via a separate alternator and mission battery, a retractable sensor lift over the floor
hatch for discrete sensors deployment, a multi-functional operator environment, a large
electronic tray in the systems compartment, pilots assisting screens and a number of hard
points for different mission downlink antennas.
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