ENDICOTT — The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) has selected BAE Systems Plc to provide the spoiler-control electronics for the new Boeing 737 MAX airplane.
Neither firm released financial terms of the contract.
The Endicott location of BAE Systems, a global-defense contractor, will develop the spoiler-control electronics that the company’s Ft. Wayne, Ind. facility will manufacture, BAE said.
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Delivery of the 737 MAX is planned for 2017, according to BAE Systems.
BAE believes it won the Boeing contract for this work based on its ability to provide a system demonstrating “technical readiness and reduced-development risk” for the Boeing 737 MAX, the company said in a news release.
The “reliability and cost effectiveness” of the spoiler-control design reflects BAE Systems’ “successful” history of flight controls, Ehtisham Siddiqui, vice president and general manager of commercial-aircraft solutions at BAE Systems, said in the release.
“Our spoiler-control electronics will help Boeing achieve its goal of improving the handling characteristics for the world’s most advanced single-aisle plane, the 737 MAX.”
The 737 MAX is a new-engine variant of the airplane and builds on the “strengths” of the Next-Generation 737 with advances in fuel-efficiency and environmental performance, BAE said.
Equipped with the new LEAP-1B engines from Cincinnati, Ohio–based CFM International, Inc. and improvements such as the advanced-technology winglet, the 737 MAX reduces fuel burn and carbon-dioxide emissions by 13 percent, according to BAE.
Airlines have placed more than 1,300 orders for the airplane, BAE said.
BAE Systems provides a range of products on Boeing airplanes, and the history of their relationship dates back six decades, the defense contractor said.
Headquartered in Chicago, Boeing manufactures the Boeing 737, a commercial jet with more than 10,000 orders to date, according to BAE.
Boeing forecasts global demand for more than 23,000 airplanes in the 737’s market segment over the next 20 years at a value of nearly $2 trillion, BAE said.
London–based BAE Systems specializes in flight and engine controls, and cabin and flight-deck systems, the firm said.
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