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Coast Guard Awards L-3 $93 Million For C-130J Upgrades

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 29th, 2015

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Coast Guard Awards L-3 $93 Million For C-130J Upgrades

Coast Guard HC-130J long-range surveillance aircraft. Photo: Coast Guard

The Coast Guard has awarded L-3 Communications [LLL] a potential $93 million contract to missionize the service’s C-130J long-range surveillance aircraft with a new sensor and C4ISR package.Under the potential five-year contract, L-3 will initially install the Minotaur mission system suite on two baseline configuration C-130Js with options to perform the same work on three additional baseline configuration aircraft and the conversion of seven HC-130J aircraft that are currently operating with a legacy mission system. Production of the first aircraft…

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