• BAE Systems is to support and maintain the U.K. Royal Air Force’s 28 new Hawk T.2 advanced jet trainers under a four-year Ministry of Defence contract valued at 111 million British pounds ($160 million). Under the Hawk In-Service Support contract, which runs to 2014, BAE will be responsible for ensuring the Hawk T.2 fleet is available for training at RAF Valley in Wales. The company is already supporting the RAF’s fleet of earlier Hawk T.1s. Deliveries of the new-build, glass-cockpit Hawk T.2s to Valley began last year, and the last of the 28 aircraft on order is to be delivered this year, BAE says.

• France’s DCNS is to supply the Royal Malaysian Navy with a Scorpene-class submarine simulator under a contract worth 128 million Malaysian ringgit ($38 million). Malaysia ordered two Scorpene-class submarines in 2002, the first of which is now on sea trials.

• Cubic Simulation Systems is to supply 15 mobile and nine fixed-site turret crew-station trainers simulating Bradley armored vehicle fire-control systems, under contracts worth $13 million from prime contractor Oasis Advanced Engineering. Deliveries begin in May 2011 and options cover up to 114 virtual trainers for the U.S. Army National Guard.

• AEgis has developed and delivered a mission planning and operator training system for AeroVironment Raven, Puma and Wasp small unmanned aircraft operated by the U.S. Army. An embedded training capability hosted on already-fielded equipment, the Visualization And Mission Planning Integrated Rehearsal Environment (VAMPIRE) simulates operator tasks such as route and mission planning as well as target tracking.

• Stockholm-based information-management consultancy HiQ has received an 14 million Swedish kroner ($1.8 million) order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration to maintain simulators for the Saab JAS 39A Gripen multirole fighter.

• Meggitt Training Systems has won a $5.4 million contract from the U.S. Army National Guard to continue upgrading Combat Skills Marksmanship Trainers used for virtual small-arms training. The Guard will purchase new weapon simulators ranging from M9 pistols to MK19 grenade launchers.

• The U.S. Air Force has shortlisted Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D.; Langley Air Force Base, Va.; Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho; and Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., as training bases for the MQ-1 Predator and M-9 reaper unmanned aircraft. A decision is expected in June.

• Hawker Beechcraft has delivered its 600th T-6 Texan II turboprop trainer. The aircraft, a T-6B, was delivered to the U.S. Navy at Naval Air Station Whiting Field, Fla. Deliveries began in 2000, to the U.S. Air Force, and the T-6 has been selected by Canada, Greece, Israel, Iraq and Morocco.