CAE Wins Defense Contracts Valued at More than C$175M

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The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded a contract amendment to CAE to upgrade two of the CH-47 Chinook dynamic mission simulators at CAE's Medium Support Helicopter Aircrew Training Facility (MSHATF) at RAF Benson. CAE will install the digital automatic flying control system (DAFCS) in each of the simulators to ensure concurrency with the RAF's CH-47 Chinook Mk6a helicopter. The upgrade of the first Chinook simulator will be complete by the last quarter of 2016 with the second simulator upgraded by mid-2017.

Boeing/U.S. Navy

Boeing has awarded CAE USA a contract to provide a range of upgrades to previously-contracted P-8A operational flight trainers (OFTs) for the United States Navy. CAE will perform hardware and software upgrades to the P-8A OFTs to ensure concurrency with the P-8A aircraft, in addition to providing projector system upgrades for ten P-8A OFTs already delivered to the Navy.

Royal Australian Air Force

CAE Australia Pty Ltd was awarded a contract from Australia's Department of Defence Capability and Acquisition Sustainment Group (CASG) to develop a C-130J Fuselage Cargo Compartment Trainer for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). More details on that contract are available in a separate release issued today and intended for defence trade media.

About CAE

CAE's Defence & Security business unit focuses on helping prepare our customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness. We are a world-class training systems integrator offering a comprehensive portfolio of training centres, training services and simulation products across the air, land, sea and public safety market segments. We serve our global defence and security customers through regional operations in Canada; the United States/Latin America; Europe/Middle East/Africa; and Asia/Pacific, all of which leverage the full breadth of CAE's capabilities, technologies and solutions.

CAE is a global leader in delivery of training for the civil aviation, defence and security, and healthcare markets. We design and integrate the industry's most comprehensive training solutions, anchored by the knowledge and expertise of our 8,000 employees, our world-leading simulation technologies and a track record of service and technology innovation spanning seven decades. Our global presence is the broadest in the industry, with 160 sites and training locations in 35 countries, including our joint venture operations, and the world's largest installed base of flight simulators. Each year, we train more than 120,000 civil and defence crewmembers, as well as thousands of healthcare professionals.

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