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Military Electronics Program Extends Contract
July 9, 2007 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
PARSIPPANY, N.J. DRS Technologies, Inc., received a $7 million one-year contract from the U.S. Air Force (USAF), to extend manufacturing of hardware components for the joint USAF and U.S. Army deployable power generation and distribution system (DPGDS) program. The 688th Armament Systems Squadron (Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.) contracted DRS, which will manufacture the assemblies at its technical services business unit in Alexandria, Va.
The contract is a follow-on award; the original contract was implemented in March 1998. DRS-manufactured equipment for the program is deployed globally with the U.S. military. Under this contract, DRS will provide primary power and secondary distribution equipment for the DPGDS program to support numerous Air Force flight-line operations, industrial support facilities, and overall garrison functions for a semi-permanent deployed force. DPGDS operations have generated approximately $311 million in business for DRS. The program seeks to establish DPGDS as the next-generation prime power system for airfield and field operations.
The system includes primary, secondary, and tertiary distribution equipment, is air transportable, and provides electrical power as-needed for military operations and humanitarian assignments. It generates more kilowatts of power than the previous generation, and updated technology improves power density, weight, fuel-efficiency, and reliability and field life, according to Mitchell B. Rambler, Ph.D., president, technical services unit, DRS.