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Leonardo DRS Wins Contract to Upgrade Boeing F/A-18 Deployable Flight Incident Recorder

Walt Evans

Thursday, September 13th, 2018

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Leonardo DRS Wins Contract to Upgrade Boeing F/A-18 Deployable Flight Incident Recorder

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Leonardo DRS said on Thursday that Boeing [BA] has awarded them a contract to develop upgraded Deployable Flight Incident Recorder Set (DFIRS) technology for F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft. Work for the contract will be done by Leonardo subsidiary DRS Technologies Canada Ltd. in Kanata, Ontario.The primary function of DFIRS is carried out by its Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT), which marks aircraft location upon impact and sends an emergency signal for search and rescue. Under the contract, DRS Technologies will update…

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