Hughes UK Ltd.'s FMRAAM Team Receives MoD PDRR Contract.LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 1997--Hughes (UK) Ltd. has been awarded a 5 million pound (US$8.25 million) program definition and risk reduction (PDRR PDRR Program Definition and Risk Reduction (formerly Advanced Development) PDRR Preliminary Draft Revision of Recommendation (International Telecommunication Union) PDRR Priority Deficit Round-Robin ) study contract for the Ministry of Defense's (MoD) SR(A) 1239 Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile Noun 1. air-to-air missile - a missile designed to be launched from one airplane at another missile - a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control (BVRAAM BVRAAM Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile ) program. The PDRR study contract allows the Hughes FMRAAM FMRAAM Future Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile team to reduce development risk to a level acceptable to the MoD. Don Targoff, FMRAAM program manager, said: ``We are pleased that the MoD evaluation of our proposal, based extensively on AMRAAM AMRAAM Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile technology, contained a minimal number of risk areas. Hughes welcomes the opportunity to position the government for a successful BVRAAM program.'' The European team Hughes has assembled to offer the future medium range air-to-air missile (FMRAAM) includes Shorts Missile Systems Ltd., Aerospatiale Missiles, Fokker, Diehl, Thomson-Thorn Missile Electronics Ltd., Atlantic Research Corp. and Hughes Microelectronics Europa. FMRAAM is an extended range derivative of the hugely successful AMRAAM, the world standard in medium range air-to-air missiles. AMRAAM has already been procured by 15 nations to date, including the United Kingdom for the Sea Harrier FA-2. Procurement is also scheduled for the Tornado F-3; indeed the Eurofighter was designed as an AMRAAM platform as well. Exports are the key discriminator dis·crim·i·na·tor n. 1. One that discriminates. 2. Electronics A device that converts a property of an input signal, such as frequency or phase, into an amplitude variation, depending on how the signal differs from a for the Hughes/Shorts/ Aerospatiale, AMRAAM-based, FMRAAM solution as it offers access to the existing AMRAAM market (currently 15 countries, and expected to double by the millennium). AMRAAM is integrated on more than 90 percent of the free-world fighters, which represent 6,000 aircraft and 20,000 launch stations. Buck Bender, managing director, Hughes (UK), said: ``This is the first direct MoD contract award for Hughes (UK) Ltd. The PDRR study award is key for Hughes (UK) Ltd., as it marks a major step for us in becoming a prime contractor in Europe.'' Hughes has high-tech production facilities in Scotland and England and employs 1,750 people in the United Kingdom. Hughes (UK) Ltd. is a subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft Co., which is a unit of Hughes Electronics Corp. The earnings of Hughes Electronics are used to calculate the earnings per share attributable to GMH GMH General Motors Holden's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange symbol) common stock. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: The European FMRAAM Team: -- Hughes (UK) Ltd. -- prime -- Aerospatiale Missiles -- ramjet ramjet: see jet propulsion. ramjet Air-breathing jet engine that operates with no major moving parts. It relies on the craft's forward motion to draw in air and on a specially shaped intake passage to compress the air for combustion. propulsion system -- Shorts Missile Systems Ltd. (Northern Ireland) -- missile integration, final assembly and test -- Diehl GmbH & Co. -- lethality section -- Hughes Microelectronics Europa, a Hughes (UK) subsidiary (Scotland) -- subsystem electronics -- Thomson-Thorn Missiles Electronics Ltd. (England) -- lethality section -- Atlantic Research Corp. -- propulsion system -- Fokker Special Products -- fin actuation subsystem CONTACT: Hughes (UK) Ltd. Mark Douglas, +44(0)171 491 4149 +44(0)171 491 4345 (fax) |
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