Lockheed And Babcock Close To Ascent

The long-delayed solicitation for fixed-wing basic training aircraft to serve in the UK’s Military Flying Training System (MFTS) will be issued within 40 days. Lockheed Martin and Babcock, the partners in the Ascent consortium that is providing the MFTS in a public-private partnership (PPP), are confident of a green light; Jim Weitzel, vice president training solutions for Lockheed Martin, told AIN that after a thorough review by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the MFTS strategy had been confirmed as “good value for money and the right construct.”