DRS Technologies Receives $30 Million in New Orders for U.S. Navy Display Workstations.Business Editors PARSIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2001 DRS Technologies, Inc. (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange : DRS DRS Drives (street suffix) DRS Dispute Resolution Service DRS Doctorandus DRS Department of Rehabilitative Services DRS Direct Registration System (securities) DRS Department of Rehabilitation Services ) announced today that its Electronic Systems Group has been awarded new orders with a combined value of approximately $30 million to manufacture and provide engineering services for the U.S. Navy's AN/UYQ-70 Advanced Display Systems. The awards were received from the company's industry teammate Lockheed Martin (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : LMT LMT left mentotransverse (position of fetus). ) Tactical Systems in Eagan, Minnesota. For these contracts, the company will manufacture AN/UYQ-70 computer workstations for U.S. Navy Aegis class surface combatants. Production of these next-generation, Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS)-based systems will be accomplished by the company's DRS Laurel Technologies unit in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Engineering services, provided by the company's DRS Electronic Systems unit in Gaithersburg, Maryland, will focus on upgrading key technologies, especially internal ship communications and the horizontal display of navigation and integrated warfare information. "Providing rapid data exchange between cooperative forces, the UYQ-70 Advanced Display Systems are the cornerstones in the modernization of the Navy's network-centric tactical warfare environment for sea, land and airborne applications," said Mark S. Newman, DRS Technologies' chairman, president and chief executive officer. "These systems offer the ideal approach to cost-effective combat system evolution. Our long-term participation on this program has positioned the company as a leading supplier of naval combat display systems and advanced ship technologies." The AN/UYQ-70 workstations are being installed throughout the U.S. Navy's surface, subsurface and air fleet, including its E-2C E-2C Hawkeye; Navy Airborne Warning and Control System Aircraft Hawkeye aircraft, the new Virginia class NSSN NSSN New Attack Submarine (Nuclear Propulsion) NSSN National Standards Systems Network NSSN NATO Standard Stock Number New Attack Submarines and the USS Los Angeles Two ships, an airship, and a submarine of the United States Navy have been named USS Los Angeles, after the city of Los Angeles, California.
abbr. Social Security Number 688 Attack Submarines, as well as the Aegis and LHA A popular freeware compression program developed by Haruyasu Yoshizaki that uses a variant of the LZW (LZ77) dictionary method followed by a Huffman coding stage. It runs on PCs, Unix and other platforms as its source code is also free. class surface ships. The systems also are planned for retrofit on the Ticonderoga, Nimitz and San Antonio class ships. The Aegis class destroyers are known as the most powerful surface combatants ever put to sea. The AN/UYQ-70 workstations incorporate the latest information processing and display technology and are becoming the Navy's common computer display consoles. For the AN/UYQ-70 program, DRS is manufacturing a family of display workstations that integrate the latest commercial computing technology and systems for combat, command and control, and mission-critical applications. One of the first standard combat computer systems implemented with an openly designed architecture, the UYQ-70 supports the common operating environment A uniform configuration of hardware and software throughout an organization. It is designed to eliminate software and data incompatibilities and improve troubleshooting. It implies the use of the same primary applications and Web browser as well as the same operating system, database being implemented in surface, subsurface, land and airborne military platforms to fulfill multiple combat system tasks. These flexible, tactical workstations are configured using high-performance COTS modules housed in militarized mil·i·ta·rize tr.v. mil·i·ta·rized, mil·i·ta·riz·ing, mil·i·ta·riz·es 1. To equip or train for war. 2. To imbue with militarism. 3. To adopt for use by or in the military. enclosures. Their design provides the most flexible display and computing infrastructure available to allow the Navy and other Department of Defense customers to accommodate new combat system development or the upgrade of existing systems. The UYQ-70 workstations provide benefits throughout their life cycle, including low cost of ownership, improved maintainability, faster technology insertion, smooth integration with legacy systems and adaptability to new environments. With the capability to emulate legacy display systems, the UYQ-70 workstations provide immediate transition to open combat architectures and provide cost-effective protection of prior hardware and software investments. DRS Technologies provides leading edge products and services to government and commercial customers worldwide. Focused on defense electronics, the company develops and manufactures a broad range of mission critical products, from rugged computers and peripherals to systems and components in the areas of communications, combat systems, data storage, digital imaging, electro-optics, flight safety and space. Additional information is available on the company's web site at www.drs.com. |
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