TRW to Perform on a $495 Million Force Protection Contract.CARSON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1997--TRW (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : 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 ) has been awarded a contract worth up to $495 million over five years to produce, install, and support the Tactical Automated Security System (TASS TASS - Template ASSembly language. Intermediate language produced by the Manchester SISAL compiler. ) as the military services heighten height·en v. height·ened, height·en·ing, height·ens v.tr. 1. To raise or increase the quantity or degree of; intensify. 2. To make high or higher; raise. v.intr. efforts to protect U.S. forces from terrorist attack. Under this follow-on production contract, called TASS II, all federal agencies can obtain TASS equipment and support worldwide. Two small business contractors will also compete to provide TASS equipment to the government. Under this indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, awarded Sept. 16, TRW is also responsible for providing training, installation, and integration of technological enhancement upgrades to keep the security system state of the art. AlliedSignal Technical Services, Columbia, Md., will support TRW in providing these services. Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base Hanscom Air Force Base, initially and briefly designated Bedford Army Air Base, is a U.S. Air Force facility in Bedford, Massachusetts. It is the headquarters of the Electronic Systems Center (ESC), one of the product centers of the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC). , Massachusetts, is the contracting activity. Work is being performed at TRW's Carson facility. TASS is a rapidly deployable electronic security system that detects, announces, locates, and evaluates possible intrusions that could pose a threat to personnel or facilities. The system offers a variety of sensors, annunciators, and thermal images that can be mixed in any combination to meet site-specific needs. Sensors (infrared, microwave, seismic, magnetic) can be powered by battery, base power, and/or solar panels and deployed in any quantity and mix. The sensors report intrusions or tampering tampering The adulteration of a thing. See Drug tampering. through radio link to command post and roving patrol personnel, who then evaluate the intrusion using thermal imagers. The need for improved force protection became more evident last year in June when 19 airmen were killed in a terrorist bombing at Khobar Towers, Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. . The Air Force quickly awarded TRW a $47 million fixed price contract -- TASS I -- to build and deploy a tactical automated security system throughout the region. The first phase of TASS involved the manufacture, deployment, training, and support of TASS equipment to meet Air Force Base protection requirements. Under that emergency contract, TRW rolled out the first truckload truck·load n. The quantity that a truck can hold. truckload n → camión m lleno of TASS equipment to the customer for immediate use in the Middle East just 104 days after award. TRW Inc. provides advanced technology products and services to the automotive and space and defense markets worldwide. The company's sales in 1996 were approximately $10 billion. CONTACT: TRW Inc. Linda Javier, 310/812-4105 or Al Frascella, 703/803-5353 |
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