Ottawa, Ontario
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] today announced the team of Canadian companies that will provide maintenance and support for Canada’s new CC 130J fleet. The initial in-service support (ISS) contract period is for six-and-a-half years from contract award in December 2009 to June 30, 2016.
Canada’s CC-130J In-Service Support Team includes:
- Cascade Aerospace (Abbotsford, British Columbia) will provide third-line maintenance on the CC-130J fleet including technical support, engineering support services, aircraft structural integrity, corrosion prevention and control, incorporation of aircraft modifications and other services through a $27 million contract.
- IMP Aerospace (Enfield, Nova Scotia) will provide warehousing services, including all spares and support and test equipment item management, receipt of supplies, order fulfillment, defective goods processing and packaging/shipping activities through a $16 million contract.
- CAE (Montreal, Quebec) will provide maintenance simulators and training devices, courseware and services through a contract value to be announced.
- Standard Aero (Winnipeg, Manitoba) will support and service for the CC-130J’s Rolls Royce AE2100 engines. Contract value to be announced.
- HAAS Group (Oshawa, Ontario) will provide all hazardous materials services through a $2 million contract.
Several other Canadian companies, which are still involved in contract negotiations, will be announced at a later date.
“We assembled a team to support Canada’s CC 130J fleet that rivals any such team in the world through a rigorous and competitive process,” said Ross Reynolds, Lockheed Martin vice president C-130 programs. “This team ─ as well as the expertise and capabilities in Canada to fulfill our industrial benefits obligation ─ stands as a testament to the quality of Canada’s high- technology industrial base.”
Lockheed Martin also announced more than $1.5 billion in approved industrial benefits projects with Canadian companies associated with the country’s purchase of and subsequent maintenance and support of 17 C-130J Super Hercules aircraft over the next six-and-a-half years. This amount will increase over the life of the program to $2.3 billion in industrial benefits to Canada as required by the contract.
Of this $1.5 billion, Lockheed Martin thus far has approved projects with companies throughout Ontario valued at more than $307 million, including:
- Cyclone Manufacturing will manufacture P-3 detail parts and assemblies valued at over $22 million.
- DRS Technologies projects valued at more than $58 million.
- EMS Technologies will provide satellite communications technologies in a project valued at more than $15 million.
- Safran Electronics will provide propeller de-icer timer unit (DITU) for Canadian and international C-130J aircraft valued at more than $3 million.
- Honeywell will provide temperature control sensors for Canadian and international C-130J aircraft and F-22 IECS components/ spares through a $14.7 million project.
- Noranco Manufacturing will manufacture P-3 detail parts and assemblies through a $7.5 million project.
- Northstar Aerospace will produce gearboxes for the Trent 1000 Engine through a $60 million project.
- Telesat will provide satellite control center interface services in a project valued at more than $43 million.
The balance of the IRB contracts will be announced in the near future.
The Industrial Regional Benefits for the Quebec, Atlantic and Western regions, representing the balance of the $1.5 billion, will be announced at subsequent events in those regions.
The C-130J has become the standard by which all other airlift is measured in terms of availability, flexibility and reliability. C-130Js are currently deployed in two combat theatres and are operating at a very high tempo efficiently and reliably. In non-combat, but equally harsh environments, the C-130Js are often now the first to support humanitarian and disaster relief efforts like those in Haiti and Chile
Other nations which are operating, or have ordered, the C-130J include Australia, Denmark, India, Iraq, Italy, Norway, Oman, Qatar, Tunisia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company that employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Corporation reported 2009 sales of $45.2 billion.
