NEW YORK, NY, November 18, 1999--L-3
Communications (NYSE:LLL) announced today that its Telemetry
& Instrumentation (L-3 T&I) division has been awarded a contract
by Lockheed Martin Astronautics to provide six Automated Data
Acquisition Systems (ADAS 5000s) for the Atlas V rocket. The
contract is valued at $3.4 million, with system deliveries
to be staggered over the next two years.
Lockheed Martin Astronautics
is developing the Atlas V for the U.S. Air Force Evolved Expendable
Launch Vehicle (EELV) program and to meet the launch needs
of the satellite industry.
"For over ten years, L-3
Telemetry & Instrumentation has been providing Lockheed Martin
Astronautics with telemetry and data acquisition systems for
a wide range of launch vehicle programs, including Athena
II, Titan IV Centaur, and Atlas," said Fred Puglisi, L-3 T&I's
manager of business development. "We are proud to extend our
launch vehicle expertise with the Atlas V program and look
forward to working with Lockheed Martin in meeting the Air
Force's goal of reducing launch costs while improving this
nation's launch capability."
The ADAS 5000 systems will be
used for launch vehicle integration and checkout as well as
launch processing support of the Atlas V. Each system will
include L-3 T&I's new Multi-Channel Universal Signal Conditioning
Amplifier (USCA), which reduces setup times and dramatically
decreases operating costs.
"We needed reliable, high density
systems able to accommodate space limitations and meet launch
processing requirements for the Atlas V rocket," said Tho
Nguyen, project engineer for Lockheed Martin Astronautics.
"The ADAS 5000 was selected to reduce the recurring calibration
and maintenance costs for our instrumentation system."
The ADAS 5000 is a turnkey data
acquisition system that provides signal conditioning, A/D
conversion, multiplexing, processing, display, storage and
data distribution. The system leverages L-3 T&I's field-proven
System 550 front-end processor to provide powerful real-time
data acquisition and processing capabilities for measurement-intensive
test environments.
L-3 Communications Telemetry
& Instrumentation, located in San Diego, CA, leads the telemetry
industry in the design and manufacture of advanced real-time
commercial-off-the-shelf hardware and software solutions for
spacecraft command and control, satellite manufacturing and
on-orbit operations, launch testing and monitoring, flight
test, weapons test and development, avionics test and integration
and general-purpose data acquisition. All solutions are offered
with complete systems engineering and integration services
and are backed by a global customer support organization.
L-3 T&I has more than 50 years of experience in telemetry
and data acquisition technology and serves virtually every
major aerospace organization in the world.
Headquartered in New York City,
L-3 Communications is a leading merchant supplier of secure
communication systems and products, microwave components,
avionics and ocean systems and telemetry, instrumentation,
space and wireless products and security systems. Its customers
include the Department of Defense, selected U.S. government
intelligence agencies, aerospace and defense prime contractors,
foreign governments and commercial telecommunications and
cellular customers.
To learn more about L-3 Communications,
please visit the company's website at www.L-3Com.com.
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