More C-130 avionics and training contracts announced

Posted by John McHale
OKLAHOMA CITY, 4 June 2011. The U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing [NYSE: BA] contracts for two additional C-130 Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) kits as well as two Aircrew Training System devices.
Boeing's team at Warner Robins Air Force Base currently is modifying two C-130 cockpits inducted late last year and company officials say they expect to have the modifications completed later this year.
The new C-130 AMP Aircrew Training System devices are an Avionics Part Task Trainer and a Weapon System Trainer. The devices will be developed in Tampa Bay, Fla., at CAE’s facility in that area. Eventually they will end up in 2014 at Arkansas Air National Guard C-130 AMP training center in Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark.
A total of six AMP kits have been approved for purchase and the two at Warner Robins, Ga., are the first to be installed. A third C-130 scheduled for LRIP will be inducted later this year with the fourth happening early next year.