Cubic Wins Navy Helicopter Trainer Operation and Maintenance Contract.

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SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 2001

Cubic Worldwide Technical Services, a subsidiary of San Diego-based Cubic Corp. (AMEX:CUB), has won a $1.8 million contract to operate and maintain helicopter trainers at Naval Air Station North Island, Calif., and Naval Station Mayport, Fla.

The 22-month contract covers labor, materials, equipment, tools, test equipment and documentation updates for operating and maintaining 10 SH-60B Seahawk Helicopter Light Airborne Multipurpose System MK III trainers. SH-60B trainers are used to provide Seahawk flight crews with basic operational and advanced weapons tactics training in the helicopter's weapon system.

The new contract is short-term and will be rolled into a larger omnibus helicopter trainer contract that the Navy will award in 2003. The SH-60B award is the third that Cubic has won this fiscal year because of its involvement in a seven-company bidding pool under the Navy's Field Training Systems Support program. In May, the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) in Orlando, Fla., awarded Cubic a $24 million contract to provide simulator training to flight crews at seven Navy and Marine Corps bases located in Virginia, the Carolinas and Florida. That award covered trainers for fighter, surveillance, anti-submarine warfare, cargo transport and transport helicopter aircraft.

With the new contract, Cubic now has six military trainer sites in San Diego and seven San Diego trainer sites overall. Cubic's current San Diego contracts include maintaining the S-3 Viking aircraft training simulator at NAS North Island, which helps train crews of carrier-based Viking jets to handle cargo, refueling and anti-submarine warfare duties. Cubic also maintains the Landing Craft Air-Cushioned simulator at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado. The landing crafts are hovercraft used in amphibious assaults. In addition, Cubic has two surface warfare simulator sites and a submarine simulator site in San Diego.

On the civilian side, Cubic has operated the firefighter training simulators at the Regional Public Safety Training Institute near San Diego's Lindbergh Field for the past seven years.

"Cubic has worked hard these past five years to develop excellent customer relations with the Navy," said Al Hurst, aviation program manager for Cubic on the project. "We're very happy that our simulator business is growing locally as well as on the East Coast."