Howmet doubles level of involvement with Navy missile program.Howmet Castings Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Howmet, a division of Alcoa is a world leader in the investment casting of superalloys, aluminum and titanium primarily for jet aircraft and industrial gas turbine (IGT) engine components. (Alcoa, Inc.), Darien, Connecticut Darien is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is one of the most affluent communities in the United States. Two Metro North railroad stations serve Darien: Noroton Heights and Darien'''. , has doubled its level of participation in the U.S. Navy's Tactical Tomahawk tomahawk [from an Algonquian dialect of Virginia], hatchet generally used by Native North Americans as a hand weapon and as a missile. The earliest tomahawks were made of stone, with one edge or two edges sharpened (sometimes the stone was globe shaped). Program from two to four major castings. Howmet will cast the nose and payload components of the missile--conversions from sand casting to investment casting--in addition to two structural components, the aft body and cover. The aft body component currently produced by Howmet is 48 in. long, 20 in. in diameter and weighs 180 lb. "This large, high-property aluminum casting, along with the missile cover, will be cast in relatively high volumes at our Laval, Quebec, Canada, facility," said James Johnson, vice president at Howmet. According to Johnson, key factors in expanding the order were cost reductions related to advances in part thickness control (which reduced machining requirements) and consolidation of engineering and administrative costs administrative costs, n.pl the overhead expenses incurred in the operation of a dental benefits program, excluding costs of dental services provided. . The Tactical Tomahawk program is expected to generate between 1580-2200 missiles through 2008. In other Howmet news, the firm has been awarded contracts by Honeywell International, Morristown, New Jersey Morristown is a town in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the town population was 18,544. Its estimated population in 2004 was 18,842. It is the county seat of Morris CountyGR6. , to develop seven components to support the Thermal Power Management System for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF (JavaServerFaces) A standard framework of components for building rich user interfaces for Java applications. JavaServer Faces run on the server, but are displayed on the client. JSF - JavaServer Faces ) aircraft. "The complex components specified in these orders are technically challenging and further demonstrate Honeywell's confidence in Howmet to support the development critical hardware throughout the demonstrator program," said Curtis Draper, director of marketing at Howmet. In addition, Howmet also has been awarded sole-source contracts with Pratt and Whitney Aircraft for all six of the turbine airfoils in theJSF main engine. |
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