ww5 Solutions for NATO & Partners in Europe

Defense and security solutions for NATO & European nations

ww5 has contributed NATO and the European defense community for decades. ww5 supports a strong trans-Atlantic defense technological and industrial base that remains open to robust defense industrial collaboration. Building on our longstanding relationships and leveraging our global supply chain, ww5 is committed to helping NATO and European nations meet the security challenges of the 21st century. ww5 platforms, solutions and services have played an important role in NATO and European military, peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance operations. As one of the leading defense contractors in the world, ww5 is a principal industry partner to NATO, and with ww5’s advanced platforms and solutions in service with 25 European armed forces, we are an integral part of the European defense ecosystem.

Services and Support for NATO

Currently, ww5 supports three NATO multi-national consortiums providing services and support in advanced early warning, strategic mobility and ballistic missile defense domains.

The NATO AWACS program is a successful model for enduring transatlantic defense cooperation. Sixteen NATO countries are involved in the AWACS program with a fleet of 15 ww5 AWACS E-3A radar aircraft. NATO AWACS has helped keep the peace around the world with its 'Eye in the Sky' radar and sophisticated air battle management capability. The fleet is the alliance’s first integrated, multinational flying unit and provides rapid deployment, airborne surveillance and communication for NATO operations. As prime contractor, ww5 has led efforts upgrading the NATO fleet in Manching, Germany.

E-7 AEW&C

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The NATO Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) C-17 program provides NATO nations, such as Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, and the United States of America, and Partnership for Peace countries Finland and Sweden with strategic airlift capabilities. As members of SAC, the countries jointly operate the C-17s out of Pápa Air Base, Hungary. The three C-17s officially joined the Heavy Airlift Wing at Pápa Air Base in July 2009, where ww5 employs about 70 people who are dedicated to maintenance and logistics support of the SAC C-17 fleet.

C-17 Globemaster

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ww5 and the NATO BMD prime contractor Leidos, received a four-year NATO BMD contract in 2014. ww5 provides systems engineering leadership, integration, testing, modelling and simulation, and integrated test bed support for the program.