The Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) leverages the advanced, proven, fielded Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance capabilities from the P-8, AWACS and AEW&C aircraft to solve customers' maritime domain awareness challenges.

MSA is a fully integrated, modular, open architecture solution, built using a combination of the latest military and commercial-off-the-shelf technologies to deliver maximum capability in this class of aircraft. Paired with the Bombardier Challenger 605 business jet, Boeing MSA delivers reliable, cost-effective operations with the ability to operate from any air base, in any weather, anywhere in the world. Challenger 605 is an ideal platform to host the mission system, sensors and communications equipment. It also provides the power, payload capacity, range, speed and endurance for MSA's missions which include anti-piracy; coastal and border security; immigration patrols and long-range search and rescue.

Boeing will leverage Field Aviation's engineering and modification experience with the Challenger family of aircraft to modify the jet.