Italo-German MPA. (Digest).Alenia and Eads on the one hand and Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. on the other have submitted their bids in response to the joint German-Italian Maritime Patrol Maritime patrol is the task of monitoring areas of water. Generally conducted by military and law enforcement agencies, maritime patrol is usually aimed at identifying human activities. Aircraft Replacement (MPA-R) Programme, to replace the fleets of Atlantic ATL-1 of both countries. Alenia/Eads will establish a Joint Venture and offers 24 MPA MPA medroxyprogesterone acetate. aircraft (seen here) based on the Airbus 320 airframe. The requirement calls for 10 aircraft for Germany and 14 for Italy. The offer is supplemented by fixed-site and deployable mission support facilities to be fielded at the main operating bases Main Operating Base (MOB) is a term used by the United States military defined as "an overseas, permanently manned, well protected base, used to support permanently deployed forces, and with robust sea and/or air access. in Germany and Italy and deployed operating bases worldwide. Training simulators and the full spectrum of logistic and customer support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services are included in the offer. Lockheed Martin, for its part, proposes a newly manufactured P-3C aircraft with several reliability and maintainability improvements. The mission system will combine elements of the Avionics Improvement Programme and the Block Modification Upgrade Programme configurations developed by Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics and Surveillance Systems. Contract award is expected in mid-2003. |
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