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DRS Technologies Receives $5 Million Award to Provide Military Rugged Tablet Computers for the United States Marine Corps.


PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- DRS Technologies DRS Technologies, Inc. (commonly known as DRS; formerly known as Diagnostic/Retrieval Systems, Inc.) is a supplier of defense electronic products and systems to the United States Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Navy, aerospace and defense prime , Inc. (NYSE NYSE

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) announced today that it received a $5 million award as part of a previous contract to provide military rugged tablet (MRT MRT,
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) computers and peripheral equipment for the U.S. Marine Corps' Target Location Designation Handoff System (TLDHS TLDHS Target Location, Designation and Hand-Off System
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) program.

DRS received the order from Stauder Technologies in St. Peters, Missouri. For this contract the company's DRS Tactical Systems business unit in Melbourne, Florida Melbourne is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 71,382. As of 2005, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau is 76,646.  will produce hundreds of the handheld MRT computers and peripheral equipment. The unit will begin delivering the peripheral equipment this September and the MRTs in January 2008, with completion expected by April 2008.

The MRT is an ultra-rugged mobile computing device which serves as the man-machine interface for the TLDHS program. DRS' lightweight MRT features a removable, and rotating hard drive, milled aluminum housing, a 10.4-inch display in either pen or touch screen format, and a Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module Global Positioning System Global Positioning System: see navigation satellite.
Global Positioning System (GPS)

Precise satellite-based navigation and location system originally developed for U.S. military use.
. The MRT is designed to military standards and resistant to extreme environments.

DRS Tactical Systems is a global leader in ultra rugged, commercial-off-the-shelf-based computers, displays & embedded workstations, handheld devices, tablet computers, and integrated peripheral products. The unit's products have been incorporated into the U.S. Army's Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below program, and the Common Hardware/Software II and III program, and the United Kingdom's BOWMAN integrated battlefield communications system program. The business unit's Applique Computer Systems are installed on more than 40 types of U.S. Army and Marine Corps wheeled and tracked vehicles, at tactical operations centers and at other command post platforms.

"This award solidifies our MRT as the Marine Corps' choice for hand-held computers for the TLDHS system," said Michael Sheehan, president of DRS' Tactical Computing Strategic Business Unit. "Coupled with our Applique Computer Systems as part of the U.S. Army's FBCB FBCB Force XXI Battle Command Brigade (US Army)
FBCB Fixed Bed Circulating Bioreactor
2 program, DRS is making great strides in being a preeminent supplier of ruggedized computer systems for military forces and private industry."

DRS Technologies, headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, is a leading supplier of integrated products, services and support to military forces, intelligence agencies and prime contractors worldwide. The company employs approximately 10,000 people. For more information about DRS Technologies, please visit the company's web site at www.drs.com.
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