Cobham wins £350m search-and-rescue contract in Australia
Defence and security technology group Cobham has bagged a contract worth AUD$640m (£350m) with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) to provide airborne search-and-rescue services across the country.
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The contract, secured through open industry competition, is due to start in 2016 and will run for 12 years.
The full value of the deal would rise to AUD$700m if AMSA exercises the option for another three years.
AMSA uses aircraft for search-and-rescue tasks across Australia such as searching for missing people, locating activated distress beacons, providing communications support at incidents and dropping survival equipment to people in distress.
Cobham's job will be to acquire, modify, commission and then operate and maintain four Bombardier Challenger CL-604 special mission jet aircraft for AMSA.
Peter Nottage, the sector president of Cobham Aviation Services, said: "The turnkey solution we will provide to AMSA represents an evolutionary improvement in range capability and speed to incident sites with longer loiter and search time over the search zone."