AUSA Sustaining Member Profile: Telephonics Corporation

Corporate Structure: A wholly-owned subsidiary of the Griffon Corporation. Founded: 1933. Number of Employees: more than 1,200. Headquarters: Farmingdale, N.Y. Manufacturing facilities: Huntington, N.Y.

Telephonies Corporation, headquartered in Farmingdale, N.Y., is a world leader in integrated information and communication system technology. We serve the global aerospace, defense and commercial markets. Since our founding in 1933 as a manufacturer of audio headsets, Telephonies has grown into a broad-based, advanced technology company specializing in cutting-edge communication and radar products for a wide range of domestic and international customers.

Telephonies is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Griffon Corporation and employs more than 1,200 people. We have more than 500 engineers located at our headquarters in Farmingdale with the remainder in our manufacturing facilities in Huntington, N.Y.

Telephonies is organized into three operating units, each with a different product and technology focus.

Communication Systems specializes in aircraft intercommunications, communications, wireless and audio products. Communication Systems' experience spans more than 69 years in the design, production and integration of communication systems and components. Today, Telephonies' Communication Systems Division is the world's leading supplier of secure military airborne intercommunication systems. Our intercommunications systems are aboard aircraft as diverse as Black Hawk helicopters, C-17 and C130 transports and F/A-18 fighters.

Telephonies has developed several intercommunications system (ICS) products to suit a wide range of applications.

Telephonics' newest ICS, secure digital intercommunications (SDI), is a digital, open architecture system with modular, scaleable configurations. SDI is designed for fixed wing platforms, helicopters and ground shelter applications, it provides high quality audio and qualified secure communications capability, specifically designed to meet future customer requirements and offer additional value to their programs such as radio relay, radio conferencing and simulcast capabilities. It can interface with all legacy and current generation radio and navigation assets and future systems, including joint tactical radio system.

TruLink extends the range of the wired intercom systems aboard aircraft, ships and land vehicles. It permits users to have wireless access to the platform's intercommunication system and its other radio assets. TruLink also serves as a stand-alone intercom, able to provide full multiplex group conferencing.

TruLink is different from traditional two-way radios in that it provides true intercom capability, where multiple users can maintain simultaneous full duplex two-way communications and also have access to wired assets. Each of 50 channels can accommodate up to 31 users, six of whom can talk simultaneously. Because of frequency-hopping technology, TruLink has an inherent low probability of intercept. Among other programs, TruLink is being used as the U.S. Army aircraft wireless intercom system (AWIS) on the U.S. Army air warrior program.

Digital Communication Management System (DCMS) is Telephonies' first generation all-digital intercommunication system. First designed for the Joint STARS program, it was the first all-digital ICS to enter operational service with the U.S. armed forces.

TCOMSS is Telephonies' largest communications management system. The system controls digital audio and data communications among pilots and crew members, ground operations centers and other aircraft. No other system can offer equal functionality or capability.

Telephonies STARCOM is an analog ICS designed to provide highly intelligible audio intercommunications. Rugged, Reliable and Versatile-Telephonies STARCOM is a proven system contracted on more than 35 platforms with more than 10,000 units fielded.

Virtually every ground control station used to fly the military's unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has a Telephonies system in it to provide voice communications between the operators and secure access to radios. Most recently, the U.S. Navy has made a decision to modify four MH-60S and four HH-60 helicopters to become medical transport helicopters in support of the global war on terrorism. Telephonies' TruLink will act as a cordless extension of the helicopter's wired intercom system.

Command Systems specializes in maritime surveillance radar, identification friend or foe (IFF) equipment and air traffic management and control systems. Command Systems has distinguished itself as an industry leader from the earliest days of radar. Long recognized in the United States and internationally for its sophisticated, state-of-the-art, mission-critical military and commercial systems, Command Systems' superior performance on a wide range of programs has enabled us to build an outstanding reputation in this worldwide market. Using an optimal mix of engineering, management, innovative technology and manufacturing services, Command Systems has fielded an array of innovative, rugged, high-performance, cost-effective systems.

Command Systems' major mission areas include air, land and sea surveillance and imaging radar; maritime search and rescue/weather radar; identification friend or foe; and air traffic control systems."

Most recently, Telephonies has been supplying air traffic management and radar systems to 19 airports in China and several in South Korea.

Telephonics Large Scale Integration (TLSI) specializes in the manufacture of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for both internal consumption and the commercial telecommunications, networking, automotive and industrial security markets.

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