GE Aerospace wins U.S. Navy contract for F/A-18, AV-8B, and AH-1Z avionics support

By Defence Industry Europe

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A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft soars above the Baltic Sea Region while participating in BALTOPS-22, June 9, 2022. Photo: Raytheon/RTX.

GE Aerospace has been awarded a five-year performance-based logistics (PBL) contract to provide avionics support for the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18, AV-8B, and AH-1Z aircraft. This agreement reinforces the company’s longstanding collaboration with the Navy, ensuring continued high availability of critical systems.

 

The contract includes support for stores management systems, which play a vital role in mission-critical operations for naval fleets worldwide. GE Aerospace will manage the supply chain, warehousing, and logistics of spare parts, while also providing depot-level repairs and fleet support at major naval bases.

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“Supporting the safety and operations of our armed forces is one of the most important things we do,” commented Matt Burns, general manager of Avionics Systems for GE Aerospace. “This five-year contract builds on a series of previous PBL contracts with our team supporting 30 years of 99% availability for the U.S. Navy.”

The stores management systems supplied by GE Aerospace offer scalable architectures with advanced redundancy, ensuring safe and reliable munitions release. More than 5,000 of these systems have been delivered to military aircraft operators worldwide, supporting both fourth and fifth-generation fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.

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