Cubic Wins Joint STARS Add-On Contract.Business Editors SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2001 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 won add-on business under its contract to provide data links for Joint STARS, the Army's sophisticated battlefield management system. The Cubic-built data link is one of the key elements of Joint STARS (an acronym acronym: see abbreviation. A word typically made up of the first letters of two or more words; for example, BASIC stands for "Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. for Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System). The new $517,000 contract brings the total amount awarded to Cubic since 1993 for Joint Stars work to close to $182 million. Cubic will provide Shop Replaceable Units (SPUs), spare parts Spare parts, also referred to as Service Parts is a term used to indicate extra parts available and in proximity to the mechanical item, such as a automobile, boat, engine, for which they might be used. Spare parts are also called “spares. for newly configured Ground Data Terminals (GDTs), part of the "Lot 8" shipment contract awarded to Cubic last summer. In addition to the GDTs, Cubic's Joint Stars data links contracts last year included an award for providing the Army's first ground data terminal test sets that simulate the US Air Force E-8C aircraft's airborne data terminal. Cubic's ground data terminals will be deployed in more than a dozen locations worldwide. With this latest add-on contract, the Army has authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: a total of 20 spares for the Lot 8 shipment. Delivery of the SPUs is scheduled in late May 2002. |
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