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NAVAIR awarded Raytheon Aircraft Integration Systems (AIS) the third of four concept exploration study contracts for the Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft program on 10 June 2000. Raytheon's concept is a remanufacture of the P-3 and EP-3 aircraft. The contract is worth $223,000. Raytheon's "Procyon" concept included updates to the airframe, engines, cockpit and crew cabin. Compared to the existing P-3C, Procyon offered a 20-ton increase in payload and a 30% increase in endurance. The program also set targets of 50% reliability increase and 60% maintenance manhour reduction. [Procyon, the brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor, is one of Orion's hunting dogs]. Procyon, a modernized P-3 with a minimum life of 20,000 flight hours, will provide proven capability for all maritime surveillance and reconnaissance missions through extended mission endurance, and reduced operation and support costs. A new mission system, the Integrated Data Handling System (IDHS), a new two-person cockpit, compliant with Global Air Traffic Management (GATM), and interior modifications combine to reduce crew fatigue and maximize operator effectiveness. Raytheon is marketing it´s P-3 "Procyon", and hopes to sell as many as 50 aircraft to Italy, Germany and South Korea.
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Multimission Maritime Aircraft (MMA)

The Department of Defense announced 15 June 2004 that McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing Co., was awarded a $3,889,979,744 cost-plus-award-fee contract to develop the U.S. Navy's P-8 Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA)
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