CAE wins Boeing contract to develop additional P-8A OFT
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On the eve of the International Training and EducationConference (ITEC), Europe’s largest show for military training and simulation,CAE announced that Boeing has ordered simulator hardware for an additional P-8Aoperational flight trainer (OFT) for the United Kingdom Royal Air Force (RAF).
This follows a contract award last year for CAE to designand manufacture the hardware for the first P-8A OFT for the RAF as well as aP-8I OFT for the Indian Navy.
In addition, CAE developed and delivered a P-8 operationalflight trainer integration asset, which is used by Boeing as an engineeringdevelopment tool to test and validate aircraft and simulator upgrades for theUnited States Navy, Royal Australian Air Force, and other internationalcustomers.
“The United Kingdom and India will now join the U.S. Navyand Australia in leveraging high-fidelity synthetic training as part of theiroverall P-8 training curriculum,” said Ray Duquette, president and general manager,CAE USA.
The P-8 OFTs for the RAF and Indian Navy will be similar to the P-8A OFTs that CAE and Boeing have already developed for the US Navy and Royal Australian Air Force. CAE designs and manufactures the P-8 OFT hardware to Level D standards. CAE also provides the 737-800 OFT software baseline and simulation-based software lab environment that is used for the P-8 OFT development and integration tasks. CAE then delivers the simulators to Boeing, who designs, installs and integrates software specific to the P-8 aircraft.
The P-8A OFTs for the RAF are scheduled for delivery to RAFBase Lossiemouth in Scotland in 2021. The P-8 OFT for the Indian Navyspecifically representing the Indian Navy’s P-8I variant is scheduled fordelivery to India Naval Station (INS) Rajali in 2021.
