Logicon signs pact for near $10 million.Logicon signs pact for near $10 million Los Angeles-based Logicon Inc. announced last week it had won a U.S. Navy contract to analyze software used on the Tomahawk tomahawk [from an Algonquian dialect of Virginia], hatchet generally used by Native North Americans as a hand weapon and as a missile. The earliest tomahawks were made of stone, with one edge or two edges sharpened (sometimes the stone was globe shaped). cruise missile cruise missile, low-flying, continuously powered offensive missile designed to evade defense systems. Although the German V-1 (1944) was a simple cruise missile, the cruise missile did not realize its potential until the 1970s, when the United States sought to program, an agreement that could eventually mean $10 million to the Torrance-based defense contractor Noun 1. defense contractor - a contractor concerned with the development and manufacture of systems of defense armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; . Under terms of the contract, a team of Logicon specialists will perform software safety analyses of the computer codes used by Tomahawk missiles deployed on U.S. Navy sufrace ships. The independent analysis is standard procedure at the Department of Defense for all software used in connection with nuclear weapons. The U.S. Naval Air Systems command The Naval Air Systems Command, or NAVAIR, is the part of the United States Navy which provides materiel support for naval aircraft and airborne weapon systems, such as guided missiles. NAVAIR was established in 1966 as the successor to the Navy's Bureau of Naval Weapons (BuWeps). , wich awarded the contract. valued the initial Logicon pact at $2.1 million. Contract options extending the work through September 1994 could bring the company's total contract work to $9.9 million. The analytical work will be performed at Logicon facilities in Virginia. |
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