NEW YORK, NY, August 26, 2003 — L-3 Communications
(NYSE:LLL) announced today that its Telemetry-West division
(L-3 Telemetry-West) has been awarded a follow-on contract
valued at $5.6 million by Boeing (NYSE: BA) for 212 additional
sets of Compact Telemetry Kits (CTMs) in support of Joint
Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) Lot 7 production. Each CTM
includes a PCM encoder, an S-band transmitter and harnessing,
configured as an integral telemetry subsystem. The CTM
is installed in a JDAM tail kit, either in the factory
or in
the field, and provides telemetry during flight test. All
hardware is to be delivered in 2004 and 2005.
JDAM continues to be a highly successful,
low-cost guidance kit that converts existing unguided free-fall
bombs into
accurately guided “smart” weapons. By adding
a JDAM tail section to existing inventories of MK-82, MK-83,
MK-84, BLU-110 and BLU-109 bombs, JDAM provides highly accurate
weapon delivery in any “flyable” weather, as
demonstrated most recently in Operation Iraqi Freedom. JDAM
can be dropped up to 15 miles from a target and receives
updates from GPS satellites to help guide the bomb to the
target.
“L-3 Telemetry-West is proud of its long-standing
partnership with Boeing on the JDAM team,” said Dick
Perry, director of business development for L-3 Telemetry-West. “JDAM
has been incredibly successful, and we are pleased that we
can play such a significant role in the flight test portion
of this strategic program.”
Over the past eight years, L-3 Telemetry-West has delivered
over 800 sets of telemetry equipment to Boeing on the JDAM
program and many of its derivatives. L-3 Telemetry-West currently
provides PCM300 telemetry encoders and CTM-905 synthesized
5-watt S-band transmitters as part of the CTM for the JDAM
program. The PCM300 provides data acquisition from various
analog and discrete sensors as well as the onboard guidance
computer. The PCM300 encoder is highly flexible and fully
programmable, and due to its small size is an excellent fit
for the JDAM tail kit. The CTM-905 transmitter is a miniaturized
unit that provides for transmission of the telemetry data
to a ground station. The CTM subsystem was developed specifically
for the smaller MK-82 configurations and is now used in all
JDAM test kits. The CTM, and prior to the introduction of
the CTM, the PCM600 encoder and CSS-905 transmitter have
been successfully used on all previous JDAM test flights.
L-3 Communications Telemetry-West is the
world’s premier
provider of tailored flight hardware and systems solutions
for missile telemetry/flight termination and spacecraft telemetry,
tracking and control (TT&C), as well as tactical intelligence
receivers, terrestrial HF/microwave radios and unmanned vehicle
communication/data links. Additionally, Telemetry-West leads
the telemetry and test industry in the design and manufacture
of advanced real-time commercial-off-the-shelf ground 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,
surveillance and detection 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. The company has more than 50 years
of experience in telemetry and data acquisition technology
and serves virtually every major aerospace organization in
the world.
To learn more about L-3 Telemetry-West, please visit the
company’s web site at www.L-3Com.com/tw.
Headquartered in New York City, L-3 Communications is a leading
merchant supplier of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
(ISR) systems and products, secure communications systems
and products, avionics and ocean products, training devices
and services, microwave components and telemetry, instrumentation,
space and navigation products. Its customers include the
Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, selected
U.S. Government intelligence agencies, aerospace prime contractors
and commercial telecommunications and wireless customers.
To learn more about L-3 Communications, please visit the
company's web site at www.L-3Com.com.
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