L-3 Communications Awarded Contract to Upgrade T-45 Trainer.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 2001 L-3 Communications (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :LLL LLL abbr. left lower lobe (of the lung) ) today announced that its Link Simulation & Training division has been awarded a $2.1 million contract from the Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) to upgrade and reconfigure a U.S. Navy T-45C instrument flight trainer to a T-45C operational flight trainer Operational Flight Trainer (OFT) is a training device, often a flight simulator, intended for general flight training as opposed to specialist tactics and weapons training. . The Navy's T-45 training devices are used to qualify new pilots for transition to the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet The Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet is a carrier-based fighter/attack aircraft that entered service in 1999 with the United States Navy. The fighter has recently been ordered by the Royal Australian Air Force. , F-14 Tomcat or AV-8B Harrier jump jet Harrier Jump Jet, often referred to as just "the Jump Jet", covers a series of a military V/STOL jet aircraft. They are capable of vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) via thrust vectoring and are the only truly successful designs of this type from the many that arose in the . The T-45 operational flight trainers are used by student pilots to practice airfield and carrier takeoffs and landings, formation flight, weapons delivery and low-level flying. Pilots are able to practice a designated mission prior to flying the aircraft. "At Link, we're proud of the continuing contributions we're making to the T-45 training system program," said Jim Dunn, president of Link Simulation and Training. "This contract marks the seventh production award Link has received from Boeing since the inception of the T-45 training system program in 1986." In upgrading the T-45C instrument flight trainer, Link will add a functional heads-up display, image generation system and a visual display system. This will enable the trainer to join other T-45C operational flight trainers that have been designed to support intermediate and advanced strike fighter simulator training. The previously delivered T-45C trainers are being used today to train new pilots on the service's modern T-45 "glass cockpit" jet trainer. Also, Link is currently completing the final assembly and hardware and software integration process on two additional T-45C operational flight trainers that will be ready for training at the Naval Air Station Meridian Naval Air Station Meridian or NAS Meridian (ICAO: KNMM, FAA LID: NMM) is a military airport located 11 miles northeast of Meridian, Mississippi in Lauderdale County and is one of the Navy's two jet strike pilot training bases (the other being NAS in 2001. Link Simulation and Training is a systems integration organization that specializes in delivering and supporting training systems and equipment that enhance operational proficiency. Link's full range of services include conducting front end analysis, program design, course development and production, interactive distance learning, simulator design and production, training implementation, training evaluation, training management and field support. Link has major operations in Arlington, TX, Binghamton, NY, Orlando, FL, Broken Arrow, OK, Phoenix, AZ and Reston, VA. 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 merchant supplier of secure communications systems and products, avionics and ocean products, training products, microwave components and telemetry telemetry Highly automated communications process by which data are collected from instruments located at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for measurement, monitoring, display, and recording. , instrumentation, space and wireless products. Its customers include the Department of Defense, selected U.S. government intelligence agencies, aerospace prime contractors and commercial telecommunications and wireless customers. To learn more about L-3 Communications, please visit the company's web site at www.L-3Com.com. Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. 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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. |
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