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DRS Technologies Receives $21 Million Delivery Order From The U.S. Army to Produce JV5 Vehicle Computing and Display Systems
PARSIPPANY, N.J., November 18 – DRS Technologies, Inc. A Finmeccanica Company, announced that it received a $21.3 million delivery order under pre-existing contract to provide JV-5 ultra-rugged vehicle computing and display systems for the U.S. Army’s Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below (FBCB2) program and Blue Force Tracking (BFT) and the United States Marine Corps (USMC) situational awareness requirements. The company received the contract from the Army’s CECOM Life Cycle Management Command at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.
The JV-5 vehicle computing system includes new technologies such as multi-core processors, increased memory, greater data storage and expansion capability to allow for future technology improvements. These enhancements provide the computer systems with better graphics processing, data handling and system networking capabilities.
The company’s DRS Tactical Systems unit in Melbourne, Florida will manufacture the systems and is scheduled to begin delivering them in January 2009 with completion expected in May 2009. The company’s vehicle computer systems are being installed on more than 40 types of U.S. Army and Marine Corps wheeled and tracked vehicles, at tactical operations centers and other command post platforms.
“The JV-5 system was designed to meet today's FBCB2 requirements and support the Army's migration to Joint Battle Command-Platform (JBC-P) and Unified Battle Command,” said Mike Sarrica, vice president and general manager of DRS Tactical Systems. “DRS has already delivered more than 20,000 JV-5 systems to PM FBCB2, at times delivering more than 1,000 systems per week.”
The objective of the Army’s FBCB2 and BFT programs is to deliver a digital battle command and control information system that will provide commanders and soldiers at tactical units, from the brigade level to the individual soldier, access to real-time information, allowing for better command and control decision making and enhanced situational awareness.
These digitization programs provide tactical units a battlefield advantage with information superiority through situational awareness. Information superiority is one of the cornerstones of the DOD’s transformation into a more flexible force that fights jointly with other services, allies and coalition partners.
The computer systems provide global positioning system location, the ability to track and differentiate between friendly and enemy combatants, the ability to interface with terrestrial communication radios such as the single channel ground and airborne radio system or the enhanced position location reporting system, and the ability to access a satellite communications network.
DRS Technologies, headquartered in Parsippany, NJ, is a leading supplier of integrated products, services and support to military forces, intelligence agencies and prime contractors worldwide. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Finmeccanica S.p.A. which employs more than 70,000 people worldwide. For more information about DRS Technologies, please visit the company’s website at www.drs.com.
For additional information please contact:
Richard M. Goldberg
Vice President, Public Affairs
(973) 451-3584
goldberg@drs.com
Brian T. Gallagher
Director, Public Affairs
(973) 898-7322
gallagher@drs.com |