The Air Force has awarded Tampa-based CAE USA a contract worth more than $10 million to upgrade two C-5 Galaxy transport simulators, with options to upgrade additional C-5 trainers that could add $40 million to the contract.
The simulators are in use at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, N.Y., and Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
The simulator upgrades are in line with Air Force plans to upgrade 52 C-5 aircraft, the largest U.S. transport aircraft.
The C-5 simulator contract will not create jobs in Tampa, but the local facility has about 15 openings that must be filled to support the new contract and other CAE programs involving C-130 aircraft and MH-60 helicopters, a company spokesman said.
Those jobs are for systems engineers, software engineers, electrical engineers and program managers, CAE marketing communications director Chris Stellwag said.
CAE employs about 450 people in Tampa, more than 100 in Orlando and more than 250 at military bases across the United States.
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