C-130Js For Canada

The government of Canada signed a contract in January to buy seventeen C-130J Super Hercules airlifters and related equipment and services. The contract is valued at $1.4 billion. The C-130Js — to be delivered to the Canadian Forces beginning in 2010 — are the long-fuselage variant of the Super Hercules, similar to the C-130Js being delivered to the US Air Force. A clause in the contract calls for the establishment of a twenty-year in-service support program for the new fleet utilizing Canadian subcontractors. Lockheed Martin made four regional supplier announcements in Canada in late January. Suppliers selected thus far total approximately sixty percent of the industrial offset obligation required under the contract.