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Coningsby, UK (SPX) Sep 15, 2010 BAE Systems has successfully delivered a crucial element in the Typhoon Availability Service (TAS) in partnership with the UK Royal Air Force (RAF), giving key weapons systems support - vital to maintaining the RAF's front-line capability. The formal acceptance of the Weapons Systems Support Rig (WSSR) by the UK RAF is a significant milestone for the joint Typhoon aircraft team, which also marks the one-year anniversary since the official in-service date of the TAS. The rig at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire is the size of two tennis courts containing 33 benches and 24 pieces of rig support equipment. This capability was designed, developed and delivered by the BAE Systems team at Warton, Lancashire. It has been through an extensive period of installation, testing and qualification and is now being used to validate mission data and evaluate any avionic issues in support of the operational fleet. Terry Butchart, BAE Systems' TAS WSSR manager said: "The delivery and official customer acceptance of the rig underlines the Company's capabilities in the area of readiness and sustainment and is the latest in a number of milestones achieved as part of the TAS contract in the past year. "Over the past months, we have been working very closely with the UK RAF to ensure that we deliver the electronic warfare capability. "It is now our task to make sure that the rig is there for the customer whenever they require it. Other vital benefits of the rig are the savings and efficiencies it delivers, particularly through the reduction of test flights required and, unnecessary removal and testing of equipment." Flight Lieutenant Shaun Bates added: "We are now able to improve the effectiveness of Typhoon mission data in a safe, controlled environment. "Undertaking flight trials is not always the most cost-effective way of proving the effectiveness of aircraft software and mission data. The WSSR de-risks these trials and gives the Typhoon Force confidence that the improvements will function as designed."
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Pentagon vows to cut waste in contractsWashington (AFP) Sept 14, 2010 The Pentagon on Tuesday vowed to crack down on the cost of contracts for weapons and services, issuing new rules designed to make the military's vast bureaucracy more efficient. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the guidelines would aim to bolster productivity for contracts that make up about 400 million dollars in the department's roughly 700 billion annual budget. The rules "will ena ... read more |
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