Navy orders 131 rugged military avionics displays for F/A-18F and EA-18G carrier-based jets

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 6 March 2011. U.S. Navy officials needed two kinds of rugged military avionics displays for the F/A-18F Hornet strike fighter, and for the EA-18G Growler carrier-based electronic warfare jet. They found their solution from the Honeywell International Inc. Defense & Space segment in Albuquerque, N.M.The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., awarded an $8.3 million contract option to Honeywell Defense & Space Friday for 131 Advanced Multi-Purpose Displays for lot 35 of the Boeing F/A-18F and EA-18G carrier-based aircraft.The contract option calls for Honeywell Defense & Space to provide 68 5-by-5-inch forward displays, 42 5-by-5-inch aft displays, and 21 8-by-10-inch avionics displays. Honeywell will do the work in Albuquerque, N.M., and should be finished by this December.

For more information contact Honeywell Defense & Space online at www.missionready.com, or Naval Air Systems Command at www.navair.navy.mil.