L-3 Communications Awarded Contract for Mobile Automated Instrumentation Suite Card Sets From Lockheed Martin.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 25, 1998--L-3 Communications (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :LLL LLL abbr. left lower lobe (of the lung) ) announced today that its Conic Division was awarded a contract from Lockheed Martin, Western Development Laboratories (WDL WDL Windows Driver Library WDL World Definition Language (3D GameStudio programming language) WDL Winter Drumline WDL Wavelength Dependent Loss WDL Waveform Description Language ). The contract, valued at $1.2 million, is for the fabrication and testing of 65 sets of assemblies for installation in the mobile transmitter units of the Mobile Automated Instrumentation Suite (MAIS MAIS Major Automated Information System (US DoD) MAIS Mediterranean Association of International Schools (Madrid, Spain) MAIS Movimento per l'Autosviluppo, l'Interscambio e la Solidarietà ). The MAIS system, developed for the U.S. Army Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM STRICOM Simulation Training and Instrumentation Command STRICOM Simulation, Training & Instrumentation Command (US Army) ), is carried by each war game player (personnel, vehicles and aircraft) during battle simulations and provides the battlefield commanders and individual players with real-time battle status data. Each player unit includes a transmitter, power amplifier, encryption controller, GPS receiver and unit controller assemblies. The Conic Division of L-3 Communications specializes in the design and manufacture of airborne telemetry, command and control flight termination, space borne electronics, ground station command and control, range instrumentation and ground radio telecommunications products and systems. 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 independent merchant supplier of secure communications systems and products, avionics and ocean systems, microwave components and telemetry, instrumentation, space and wireless products. Its customers include the Department of Defense (DoD), selected U.S. government intelligence agencies, foreign governments, aerospace and defense prime contractors and commercial telecommunications and cellular companies. CONTACT: L-3 Communications Cynthia Swain, Vice President, Corporate Communications 212/697-1111 or Steve Self, Conic Division 619/278-4100, x6584 or Morgen-Walke Associates June Filingeri, John Blackwell Media Contact: Richard Dukas 212/850-5600 |
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