EDO awarded $240 million contract for Marine Corps communications system.EDO Corporation EDO Corporation (NYSE: EDO) is an American company that designs and manufactures products for defense, intelligence, and commercial markets, and provides related engineering and professional services. It employs 4,000 people worldwide and had revenues of $715 million in 2006. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :EDO Edo: see Tokyo, Japan. ) has been awarded a contract for a new generation of Marine Corps field-communications equipment known as the Transition Switch Module. The company has now received the signed contract that was announced by the Department of Defense on June 15. The indefinite-delivery/indefinit-equantity contract has a maximum value of $240 million for the procurement of up to 476 units. The contract was competitively awarded to EDO by the Marine Corps Systems Command Marine Corps Systems Command (MARCORSYSCOM) is located at MCB Quantico. Mission Serve as the Commandant's principal agent for acquisition and sustainment of systems and equipment used by the operating forces to accomplish their warfighting mission. in Quantico, Va. Work is expected to be completed by September 2011. The company has been issued the first delivery order under the contract, for $3.3 million, to initiate the engineering and development phase. The Transition Switch Module will provide digital voice, data, and video communications to deployed Marine units. It will dynamically allocate bandwidth to handle the demanding needs of net-centric warfare. TSM TSM Tivoli Storage Manager TSM Transportation System Management TSM Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (stock symbol) TSM Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. will also be a key element in the Marine Corps' transition from legacy tri-service tactical switches to current commercial technology. Another key element of this transition is the Joint Enhanced Core Communication System, or JECCS JECCS Joint Enhanced Core Communications System JECCS Japanese Educational Clinical Cardiology Society , which EDO is also producing for the Marine Corps. JECCS will serve as a mobile telecommunications "central office" and connect with Transition Switch Modules to give individual Marines full access to the communications network. "Integrated battlefield communications is a critical need for our military customers, and an area of expertise at which we excel," said James M. Smith, EDO's chief executive officer. |
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