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OEM News 08/28/2008

Aug. 28, 2008
August 28, 2008   Articles Boeing Gets Contract For 191 CH-47F Chinook Helicopters ...
August 28, 2008
Articles
Boeing Gets Contract For 191 CH-47F Chinook Helicopters
The Boeing Company has been awarded a five-year U.S. Army contract valued at $4.3 billion for 181 CH-47F Chinooks and 10 additional Chinooks under Fiscal Year 2008 supplemental funding. There are options in the award for an additional 24 aircraft over the course of the contract. Read More

Boeing, US Navy Offer Super Hornet To Denmark
Boeing and the U.S. Navy delivered a proposal Aug. 15 offering the advanced F/A-18E/F Super Hornet to the Royal Danish Air Force as part of Denmark's New Combat Aircraft competition. Read More

Lockheed Martin Gets $61 Million Contract For Guided Rockets
Lockheed Martin has received a $61 million follow-on contract for Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Unitary rockets. To date, more than 850 GMLRS rockets have been fired in the Global War on Terror. Read More

Lockheed Martin Gets Two Contracts To Manage Energy Efficiency Programs
Lockheed Martin said it was awarded two, multi-year contracts by AmerenUE to implement more than a dozen energy efficiency programs for the company's 1.2 million business and residential electric customers. Read More

Delphi And DAAZ Win Radiator Business From Russian Automaker
Delphi Corp. has been awarded new business from Dimitrovgrad Avtoagregat Plant (DAAZ) to supply engine cooling radiator cores to the final assembly of radiator fan modules for the AVTOVAZ Lada Kalina. In January 2009, DAAZ will begin delivering modules to the AVTOVAZ plant in Togliatti, Russia. Read More

Caterpillar Expands Business In China
Caterpillar Inc. Chairman and CEO Jim Owens said Caterpillar's plans to add to its China-based research and development (R&D) operations to increase the technical support for products serving markets in China and the rest of the Asia Pacific Region. Read More

General Dynamics Gets $13 Million for Abrams Tank System Tech Support
General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics has been awarded a $12.6 million contract for Abrams Tank Systems Technical Support (STS). Read More

Events
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Announcements
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