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Teledyne Wins NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Contractor Excellence Award for Third Consecutive Year.


LOS ANGELES -- Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE NYSE

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:TDY) announced that Teledyne Brown Engineering Teledyne Brown Engineering, or TBE, formerly Brown Engineering, is a Huntsville, AL–based subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY). TBE was acquired by Teledyne Technologies in 1966. , Inc., for the third year in a row, received NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center's (MSFC MSFC Marshall Space Flight Center
MSFC Multilayer Switch Feature Card (Cisco Systems)
MSFC Medical Students For Choice
MSFC Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission (Minneapolis, MN) 
) Contractor Excellence Award in the large business - service category.

Quality and safety have been hallmarks of Teledyne Brown's 50-plus years of support to NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NASA
 in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Independent U.S.
 and are among the reasons the company captured this honor. In addition, Teledyne Brown saved MSFC more than $22 million over the last six years. By hiring personnel with skill sets that relate to our work, using cross-training programs when applicable, and documenting improvements, TBE has controlled costs to almost 9% below plan.

The company currently supports payload operations integration for the International Space Station (ISS ISS

See Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS).
), operation and maintenance of Propellants, Pressurants and Calibration (PP&C) services, and Systems Development and Operations Support (SDOS SDOS Secure Distributed Operating System ) activities.

"It is an honor to be recognized three years in a row for the quality of our work for NASA," said Robert Mehrabian, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Teledyne Technologies. "Teledyne is dedicated to helping NASA achieve its mission."

Marshall Center Director David King presented the award, reserved for NASA MSFC's top-performing contractors, to Teledyne Brown representatives at a recent breakfast.

Teledyne Technologies is a leading provider of sophisticated electronic components, instruments and communication products, systems engineering solutions, aerospace engines and components, and on-site gas and power generation systems. Teledyne Technologies has operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Canada. For more information, visit Teledyne Technologies' website at www.teledyne.com.
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