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ITEC 2016: ATAC supplies live air for USN

11th May 2016 - 14:00 GMT | by Trevor Nash in London

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Increasingly, governments are turning to service companies to provide military training services. In the US, Airborne Tactical Advantage Company LLC (ATAC), an operating unit of Textron, has been awarded a further contract as part of the US Navy’s Contracted Air Services (CAS) programme.

This current award is a new $14.38 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, cost reimbursement, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that is worth $41 million over the life of the programme.

As the CAS incumbent, ATAC provides contractor owned and operated Type III High Subsonic and Type IV Supersonic aircraft to US Navy Fleet customers for

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