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Collins Aerospace Division Secures Navy’s $65M E-2D Training Platform for France

Collins Aerospace Division Secures Navy’s $65M E-2D Training Platform for France

Rockwell Collins Simulation and Training Solutions, a Collins Aerospace division, has received a $65 million firm-fixed-price contract from the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division to deliver a weapons system training platform for France’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft fleet.

The sole-source award, a foreign military sale to France, also covers related technical data and training for instructors, maintenance and cyber personnel. The Collins Aerospace unit will support the initiative from Sterling, Virginia, Tampa, Florida, and Lorient, France, with an expected completion date of July 2028.

Rockwell Collins’ simulation product combines Collins’ aviation expertise and the latest technologies for aircraft training. The solution features state-of-the-art image generators and the company’s CORE simulation architecture, allowing warfighters an actual flight-like experience.

The trainer will ensure that French warfighters are ready to use the technology when the first batch of E-2D arrives in Paris in 2027.

In December, the program celebrated a milestone after Northrop Grumman announced that it had started producing the Hawkeye for the French Navy from its St. Augustine manufacturing facility in Florida. At the time, Janice Zilch, vice president of multi-domain command and control programs at Northrop Grumman, highlighted how the Hawkeye order continues a long history of collaboration with France. “We look forward to providing a generational leap in decision dominance with the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye,” the executive said.

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