TRW Awarded Tactical Operations Centers Contract.Business Editors & Aerospace/Defense Writers RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2001 TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : TRW) has begun work on a four-year contract valued up to $14 million to produce a total of 14 tactical operations centers (TOCs) for the First and Second Brigade Combat Teams at Fort Lewis, Wash. Work on the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract, awarded Dec. 18 by the U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command Missile Command is a 1980 arcade game by Atari Inc. that was also licensed to Sega for European release. The plot of Missile Command is simple: the player's six cities are being attacked by an endless hail of ballistic missiles, some of them even splitting like , Redstone Arsenal Redstone Arsenal, U.S. rocket research and development center, 38,781 acres (15,694 hectares), N Ala., W of Huntsville; est. 1941. One of the state's largest industrial enterprises, it includes the Army Missile Command, responsible for the army's rocket and guided , Ala., will be performed in Huntsville, Ala., and at teammate Logicon's facility near Fort Lewis. "TRW's ability to deliver TOCs on schedule and within cost was demonstrated during the Joint Contingency Force exercise last year," said Terry Machleit, director of battlefield command and control for TRW Tactical Systems. At that time, TRW provided C4I C4I Command, Control, Communications, Computers, & Intelligence (US DoD) C4I Command Control Communications Computer and Intelligence TOC systems comprising 28 vehicles/shelters connected with voice communications and situational awareness that helped establish the tactics, techniques, and procedures for a more mobile, agile, lethal Army, added Machleit. TRW will be responsible for the overall system engineering, system design, training and field support; teammate Logicon will perform equipment installation. "We are committed to excellent performance on this TOC program, along with our digitization and Hunter UAV UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle UAV Unmanned Air Vehicle UAV Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle UAV Unmanned Airborne Vehicle UAV Uninhabited Air Vehicle UAV Urban Assault Vehicle UAV Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle (less common) efforts, which also support the Army's Initial Brigade Combat Teams," said George Petteys, acting general manager, TRW Tactical Systems. TRW Inc., headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, provides advanced technology products and services to the automotive, aerospace, and information technology markets worldwide. TRW, which is celebrating its 100th year of operations during 2001, had year-end 2000 sales of $17.2 billion. For more information, visit http://www.trw.com . |
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