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24-Year, GBP 1.5B contract to Maintain UK’s Hercules Fleet

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DID has covered Britain’s trend toward long-term, performance-based, public-private, “contracting for availability” maintenance solutions for many of Britain’s key military platforms. Add another to the list, because the UK MoD has awarded Marshall Aerospace a GBP 1.52 billion contract ($2.86 billion conversion as of June 2006) to support its fleet of C-130 Hercules transport aircraft over the next 24 years.

As prime contractor, Marshall Aerospace is working in partnership with the Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO), the Royal Air Force, Lockheed Martin and Rolls-Royce to deliver the Hercules Integrated Operational Support (HIOS) programme. The HIOS programme will provide guaranteed levels of aircraft availability to a fleet that includes both older C3/C1 models (C-130K stretched and normal) and C4/C5 models (C-130J-30 and C-130J).

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