NATO adds C-17 training capability
Boeing has been awarded a $25.44 million firm-fixed-price delivery order to an existing support contract to provide C-17 Globemaster III training devices and spares for the NATO Airlift Management (NAM) Programme at Pápa Air Base, Hungary.
This sole-source FMS contract was awarded by the USAF Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and follows a business case analysis by the NAM Programme Office in conjunction with NATO’s Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) C-17 force.
According to the NAM Programme Office: ‘The SAC-owned C-17 simulator at Pápa Air Base will increase flexibility and proficiency training options for HAW
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