L-3 communications Space & navigation awarded $14m contract to build hardware for Delta Avionics program.L-3 Communications
L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: LLL) is a company that supplies command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C3ISR) systems and (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :LLL LLL abbr. left lower lobe (of the lung) ) announced recently that its Space & Navigation division (L-3 S&N) has been awarded a $14 million contract by the Boeing Company of Huntington Beach, California Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in southern California. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 189,594. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, by Seal Beach on the north, by Costa Mesa on the south, by Westminster on the northeast, and by , for the Delta Avionics program. Under this contract, which will run through April of 2008, L-3 S&N will assume design responsibility, then produce, qualify, test and deliver a total of 566 units comprised of ten different part types. The program is a continuation of L-3 S&N's heritage of producing highly reliable products for space launch applications. L-3's hardware for the Delta Avionics program ranges from complex assemblies, providing inertial sensing, power switching and actuator control functions, to simple modules used for transient suppression. The avionics will be used in every stage of the Delta launch vehicle. "This award, coupled with our Redundant Inertial Flight Control Assembly (RIFCA RIFCA Redundant Inertial Flight Control Assembly ) program, allows us to be one of the primary suppliers of Delta hardware to Boeing," said Paul Wengen, president of L-3 S&N. "The contract demonstrates our customer's continued confidence in our capabilities and our industry-leading standards, and will ensure we continue to be a key supplier on Boeing's Delta launch vehicles." L-3 Space & Navigation, located in Budd Lake, New Jersey Budd Lake is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Mount Olive Township, in Morris County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 8,100. , is a world premier provider of inertial instruments and integrated fire control systems to the global marketplace and is a major supplier of high-quality pointing, guidance, control and positioning equipment for satellites, artillery and launch vehicles serving the military, commercial and government markets. The division's products and capabilities include fiber-optic and ring laser gyros This article is about the food dish. For other uses, see Gyro. Gyros or gyro (Greek: γύρος, "turning") (IPA: [ˈjɪːɹəʊ] , reaction wheel assemblies, position navigation units and fire control and digital battlefield solutions. L-3 Space & Navigation has provided state-of-the-art systems for many critical and strategically important space and national defense programs and is the premier supplier of precision pointing and position location systems for the U.S. Army. |
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