L-3 Communications Awarded $27.7 Million Contract to Supply Traveling Wave Tubes for U.S. Air Force Radar Systems.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 2003 L-3 Communications (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : LLL) announced today that its Electron Devices division (L-3 Electron Devices) has been awarded a $27.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force's Ogden, Utah, Logistics Center to supply Traveling Wave Tubes (TWTs) for high-power surveillance radar systems. The contract is a five-year requirements contract to supply all TWTs used in the AN/FPQ-16 Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System (PARCS) and the AN/FPS-108 Cobra Dane Radar system. L-3 Electron Devices expects system deliveries to begin in 2004 and run through 2009. "Our TWT technology plays an important role in ensuring that the U.S. Air Force can continue to perform a vital mission that is not only key to our country's defense, but to the safety of our manned space flight and satellite projects," said Jim Benham, president of L-3 Electron Devices. "We are honored to have been selected by the U.S. Air Force to support its critical radar systems and we look forward to a successful partnership over the next five years." The AN/FPQ-16 PARCS is an outgrowth of the Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile system at Cavalier Air Force Station Cavalier Air Force Station is a United States Air Force installation in Pembina County, North Dakota, home to the 10th Space Warning Squadron of the 21st Space Wing based at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado. , North Dakota, 90-miles north of Grand Forks Air Force Base Grand Forks Air Force Base (Grand Forks AFB or GFAFB) (IATA: RDR, ICAO: KRDR) is a base of the United States Air Force located in Grand Forks County, North Dakota 15 miles (24 km) west of the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota on U.S. Highway 2. in the northeastern corner of North Dakota. The PARCS radar is the largest phased-array radar system in the world. The Air Force assigned the radar the primary mission of warning/attack assessment of Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) and Intercontinental Ballistic Missile intercontinental ballistic missile: see guided missile. (ICBM) attack against the continental United States United States territory, including the adjacent territorial waters, located within North America between Canada and Mexico. Also called CONUS. and southern Canada. The radar is so precise, it can identify objects the size of a basketball at a range of 2,000 miles. Its secondary mission is to track space debris that could interfere with shuttle missions as well as satellites. The Cobra Dane system provides 120-degree radar coverage of a 2,000-mile corridor that spans the eastern Russian peninsula and northern Pacific Ocean. Its digital data and voice communication systems interface with the National Air Intelligence Center and the North American Aerospace Defense Command A bi-national command of the US and Canada that provides aerospace surveillance, warning and assessment of aerospace attack, and maintains the sovereignty of US and Canadian airspace. Also called NORAD. . The Cobra Dane collects exoatmospheric, multiple-object intelligence data on Russian re-entry vehicles and can extract and reduce data on site. The system also provides early warning and attack assessment for missiles that would impact the continental United States, and detects and catalogs satellites for the U.S. Air Force's spacetrack systems. L-3 Electron Devices is a worldwide supplier of microwave power devices to all major prime contractors on key military programs, including missile seekers, aircraft navigation and landing systems, airborne and ground radars and electronic warfare and communications systems. The company also supplies transmitter tubes to the broadcast television industry. L-3 Electron Devices has offices in San Carlos, California San Carlos is a city in San Mateo County, California, USA on the San Francisco Peninsula, about halfway between San Francisco and San Jose. It is an affluent small residential suburb located between Belmont to the north and Redwood City to the south. , and Williamsport, Pennsylvania. To learn more about L-3 Electron Devices, please visit the company's web site at www.L-3Com.com/edd. Headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , L-3 Communications is a leading provider of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance may refer to:
Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States , selected U.S. Government intelligence agencies and aerospace prime contractors. To learn more about L-3 Communications, please visit the company's web site at www.L-3Com.com. SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT UNDER THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and OF 1995 Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements set forth above involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from any such statement, including the risks and uncertainties discussed in the company's Safe Harbor Compliance Statement for Forward-looking Statements included in the company's recent filings, including Forms 10-K and 10-Q, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made, and the company undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements. |
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