DRS Technologies has been awarded a 30-month, $3.9 million contract by the US Army Communications-Electronics Command to supply leading edge infrared focal plane arrays for the army's new Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66A Comanche Armed Reconnaissance and Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow multi-mission combat helicopters. DRS's Standard Advanced Dewar Assemblies Type I technology will allow pilots to identify targets at longer ranges. TEAC America has received a $10 million contract to upgrade the cockpit video recording systems (CVRS) on the US Navy's Boeing F/A-18A Hornets. TEAC will supply its single-deck V-80AB-F9 Hi-8mm airborne video tape recorders for 600 F/A-18 C/Ds, and new CVRS for the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets. The US Air Force and US Army have placed $4.4 million contracts with Pacific Aerospace & Electronics for titanium/composite electronic packaging components and connectors for Boeing/ Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptors and the Javelin anti-armour missile.
Source: Flight International
