Sierra Nevada Company (SNC) just lately delivered its tenth absolutely built-in Mission Enhancement Equipment (MEK) plane to the U.S. Military, including enhanced capabilities to the Military’s Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS) fleet. The King Air 350 MEK reduces plane weight, will increase engine efficiency and considerably reduces the general sound signature to reinforce its stealth capabilities. SNC modifies the plane to extend time aloft and permit for elevated working weight with out larger take-off danger. It additionally permits operations on shorter runways, making the plane extra appropriate for a greater diversity of operational environments. This gives clients with versatile multi-mission and particular mission capabilities, elevated plane efficiency and security.
As a major methods integrator, SNC has greater than 50 years of expertise optimizing ISR operations worldwide, designing, creating and delivering rugged {hardware}, open structure methods and modular mission options for 200+ forms of plane. SNC additionally maintains a protracted heritage of King Air modification and integrations, leveraging 800,000+ hours of operational expertise on particular mission platforms for a wide selection of presidency and navy clients. The Military has procured 16 kits so far and SNC expects to ship two further MEK built-in plane this 12 months. SNC will proceed to carry out work coated by this contract from its amenities in Hagerstown, Maryland.
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Sierra Nevada Company (SNC) is an American, privately held aerospace and nationwide safety contractor specializing in plane modification and integration, house elements and methods, and associated know-how merchandise for cybersecurity and well being. The corporate contracts with the USA Armed Forces, NASA and personal spaceflight corporations.SNC is headquartered in Sparks, Nevada and has 33 areas in 19 U.S. states, the UK, Germany and Turkey. The corporate was concerned in over 400 profitable house missions, and constructed the cargo Dream Chaser, which can resupply the Worldwide Area Station with each pressurized and unpressurized cargo.
As of July 2020, SNC has taken half in 14 completely different missions to Mars. SNC is a trusted chief in modern, superior know-how options and open structure integrations in aerospace and nationwide safety. Finest identified for its distinctive mission purposes, SNC creates custom-made options for the world’s most urgent know-how challenges within the fields of aviation, nationwide safety house, digital warfare, command and management, mission methods and inline cybersecurity. SNC is owned by Chairwoman and President Eren Ozmen and CEO Fatih Ozmen, and is as soon as once more acknowledged as a US Finest Managed Firm by Deloitte Non-public. In spring 2021, SNC introduced the transition of its Area Programs enterprise space to an unbiased business house firm, Sierra Area.
