Aviation Week, May 22, 2024 -Less than one month after winning its biggest contract, Sierra Nevada Corp. has delivered the first round of required designs and is preparing for the arrival of its first 747-8i to be modified as part of the U.S. Air Force’s Survivable Airborne Operations Center program.
SNC in late April received an engineering and manufacturing development contract worth up to $13 billion to replace the service’s aging E-4B Nightwatch fleet. SNC has purchased five 747-8is from Korean Air Lines to start building the fleet, and the first is expected to arrive in Dayton, Ohio, within weeks.
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SNC is a trusted global leader in aerospace and national security. Our innovative solutions enable connected protection through command, control and communications systems, as well as ISR, cyber, electromagnetic spectrum management, and other high capabilities for national security systems across all domains – sea, land, air, space and cyber. As a longstanding leader in defense technology, SNC is at the optimum intersection of commercial, defense and non-traditional contractors. We are one of the only privately owned mid-tier A&D contractors and we pride ourselves on our ability to invest early and often to ensure mission success on or ahead of schedule. It's part of our mission to always stay one step ahead; working on solutions today to solve the problems of tomorrow. Founded in 1963, SNC is owned by Chairwoman Eren Ozmen and CEO Fatih Ozmen.