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Boeing Awards Cobham $65 Million Contract For WGS Electronic Systems

Friday, August 17th, 2012

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Boeing [BA] earlier this year awarded Britain’s Cobham plc a $65 million contract to supply electronic systems to Boeing’s Wideband Global Satellite (WGS) Communications program, according to a Cobham statement. The contract funds production on three WGS flight sets with additional options for three more sets, the statement said. Cobham North America spokeswoman Monica Hallman said recently in an email each flight set consists of over 1,000 RF Modules supporting uplink and downlink communications. The modules are made up of…

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