Cubic Awarded $1.8 Million Contract For Joint STARS Air Data Terminal.Business Editors SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 2002 Cubic Defense Systems, a subsidiary of San Diego-based Cubic Corp. (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :CUB cub the newborn of a number of animal species as diverse as lion, fox and bear. ), has been awarded a $1.8 million contract from Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. to provide an Air Data Terminal and spare equipment for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS). From a standoff position, Joint STARS detects, locates, classifies, tracks and targets hostile ground movements, communicating real-time information through secure data links with U.S. Air Force and Army command posts. Air Data Terminals (ADTs) are one component of Cubic's Joint STARS data link used to broadcast images and moving target information from the U.S. Air Force E-8C Joint STARS reconnaissance aircraft to U.S. Army ground stations equipped with Cubic-built Ground Data Terminals. The new ADT (Asynchronous Data Transfer) A transmission technique used in ISDN PBXs that dynamically allocates bandwidth. See also abstract data type. ADT - abstract data type will be included in a lot shipment scheduled for delivery to Northrop Grumman in the summer of 2003. Cubic will deliver spare equipment concurrently. Cubic announced the new contract as the company gets ready to deliver a previously ordered ADT to Northrop Grumman. "With this latest contract, the Joint STARS data link has generated close to $220 million for Cubic. It is a result of the Department of Defense's continued investment in the Joint STARS program," said David S. Miller David S. Miller is one of the core developers working on the Linux kernel, where he is the primary maintainer of networking and the SPARC implementation, and is also involved in other development work. External links
Cubic Defense Systems is part of the Cubic Defense Applications Group, which provides instrumented air and ground combat training systems, battle command training simulations, and simulation support for U.S. and allied military forces. The group also produces high technology avionics, data links and communications products for government and commercial customers and provides a wide range of technical and logistics services. For more information about Cubic, see the company's Web site at www.cubic.com. |
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