Compass Call equipment will port over to G550 platform

The U.S. Air Force has gone ahead to let L-3 Communications to migrate EC-130H Compass Call equipment to the G550 Conformal Airborne Early Warning (CAEW) after Government Accountability Office last month denied Boeing and Bombardier’s protest against the move.

RSAF Gulfstream IAI G550 CAEW (Conformal Airborne Early Warning)
By Owen65 [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

A service spokesperson told Flight Global that the contract terms, specifications and price of the undefinitised contract action (UCA) are still to be agreed upon with the contractor.