LORAL FEDERAL SYSTEMS AWARDED $11.3 MILLION AWACS CONTRACT.OWEGO, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--December 5, 1994--Loral Federal Systems-Owego, a division of Loral Corporation Loral Corporation was a small Bronx defense contractor on the verge of bankruptcy when in 1972 it was acquired by Bernard Schwartz, who over the course of the next two decades built it into a major player in the global aerospace and defense industry, acquiring sixteen other defense (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :LOR LOR Letter Of Reprimand (military) LoR Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien) LOR Learning Object Repository LOR Linux.Org. ), was recently awarded a $11.3 million contract to deliver four data processing subsystems (DPS Minicomputer series from Bull HN. 1. (language, text) DPS - Display PostScript. 2. (language) DPS - A real-time language with direct expression of timing requests. ["Language Constructs for Distributed Real-Time PRogramming", I. ) for the U.S. Air Force Airborne Warning and Control System The Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) is an aircraft system designed to carry out surveillance, and C2BM (command and control, battle management) functions. (AWACS AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) Mobile, long-range radar surveillance-and-control centre for air defense. Used by the U.S. Air Force since 1977, AWACS is mounted in a specially modified Boeing 707 aircraft, with its main radar antenna affixed to a rotating dome. ) aircraft. Awarded by the U.S. Air Force Electronic Systems Command, the initial contract will be followed by three production options for 32 additional systems during the next three years. The potential total contract value is $87.6 million. Loral will incorporate a more densely packaged memory design which provides increased memory function to the airborne computer, called the CC-2E. This new design reduces the number of monolithic memory units from five to three per system. All 36 systems will be delivered with this enhancement. Loral Federal Systems-Owego has been providing airborne processing solutions to the U.S. Air Force AWACS customer for more than three decades. The CC-2E DPS is the fourth generation multi-purpose airborne processor delivered for AWACS by Loral. The AWACS provides early warning of threats of aggression and airborne control of friendly aircraft. The CC-2E receives data from on board sensors, processes it, sends the completed airborne view to the mission operators, and links critical messages to ground commanders. The subsystems will be manufactured, assembled and tested at the Loral Federal Systems-Owego facility. Loral Federal Systems-Owego provides premier solutions in systems integration, program management, hardware and software development, manufacturing and logistics support for a variety of government, civilian and international customers. Loral Corporation, 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. , is a high-technology company that primarily concentrates in defense electronics, communications, space and systems integration. CONTACT: Loral Federal Systems
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