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Air Force Requests More Than $50 Million for C-5 Avionics-Related Upgrades

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Air Force Requests More Than $50 Million for C-5 Avionics-Related Upgrades
U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. David Brown, right, and Maj. Calford Morris prepare their C-5M for take off during a Tuskegee Airmen heritage flight at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, New Hampshire on Feb. 25, 2018. Their C-5M was to deliver equipment to U.S. Army soldiers in Afghanistan. C-5Ms are to receive CNS/ATM and CMC/WxR upgrades. (Air Force Photo)

The Air Force's fiscal 2021 budget requests more than $50 million in avionics-related upgrades for the service's fleet of 52 Lockheed Martin [LMT] C-5M Super Galaxy transports, including 36 in the active Air Force and 16 in the Air Force Reserve. The planes are the largest in the Air Force inventory. Development work for the upgrades started in 2014. Such upgrades include nearly $34 million for C-5 Communication Navigation Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) by Tyonek Native Corp., Honeywell [HON] and…

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