Lockheed Martin Awarded $198M in C-130 Training Contracts

C-130 aircraft

Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Maryland, recently received six contracts, with awards totaling $198.4 million, to improve training for C-130 airmen and operators around the world.

One of the six contracts is to upgrade two Air Mobility Command (AMC) C-130J fuselage trainers at Little Rock Air Force Base in Jacksonville, as well as two visual systems on the flight simulators located at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas and Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany.

The other contracts are to:

• Build five new C-130J weapon system trainers for Air Force Special Operations Command;
• Build and maintain for two years a new, reconfigurable C-130J weapon system trainer for the Air National Guard at Quonset Point Reserve Base in Rhode Island;
• Build four new KC-130J observer trainers for Naval Air Systems Command;
• Upgrade 13 existing AMC trainers at Air Force bases throughout the U.S. and Europe;
• And provide one year of technical support to assist the U.S. Air Force with conducting analyses for common architectures across various simulator elements.

In addition to the contracts, Lockheed Martin has also funded development of the Hercules Training Center, a facility slated to open in the second quarter of 2018.