DRS Technologies Awarded $7 Million Contract to Provide Ship Communication Network System for the Republic of Korea's Navy
April 05 2007 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
DRS Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: DRS) announced today that it received
a $7 million contract from the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine
Engineering (DSME) Co. Ltd. (KSE: 042660) to provide Fiber Optic
Data Multiplex System (FODMS) � Navigation Sensor Distributors for
the second KDX-III destroyer of the Republic of Korea�s Navy
(ROKN). Under a previously awarded contract from the Special &
Naval Shipbuilding Division of Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd.
(KSE: 009540), DRS outfitted the first destroyer of this new fleet
with the same equipment. The FODMS is a unique, general-purpose,
dual-network system that provides data and integrated
communications between propulsion and power control systems,
steering, navigation sensors, weapons systems, alarms, indicators
and integrated bridge systems, as well as Aegis combat systems. It
is a complete information transfer system designed to meet evolving
ship communications requirements and to handle data that is
critical to ship operations, enhancing reliability, maintainability
and survivability. The company�s DRS EW & Network Systems unit
based in Buffalo, New York, will accomplish the work for this
contract, which will start immediately and continue through May
2010. The company expects to receive future contracts on this
program as the ROKN deploys additional KDX-III destroyers. For this
contract DRS will manufacture, install and test the FODMS to ensure
interoperability between legacy systems and the latest Commercial
Off-The-Shelf (COTS)-based systems. The company also will provide
operation maintenance training to DSME employees and ROKN
personnel. �This award is our second commercial sale of the FODMS
to an international customer. It reflects our success in providing
vital communications systems that ensure the safety and
survivability of a fleet during deployments and our efforts to
expand our international business base,� said Richard S. Danforth,
president of the company�s Command, Control & Communications
Strategic Business Unit. For the U.S. Navy, the FODMS is used as an
advanced message transfer system, operated by interior
communications technicians in the DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class
guided-missile Aegis destroyers. The FODMS was selected by the ROKN
to distribute navigation sensor data to Aegis and non-Aegis weapons
systems, communication systems, machine control and steering
control systems, and navigation displays without the need to
rewrite software or redesign hardware. It is based on the Military
Survivable Adaptable Fiber Optic Embedded Network (SAFENET)
standard, focused on enhancing survivability. DRS Technologies,
headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, is a leading supplier of
integrated products, services and support to military forces,
intelligence agencies and prime contractors worldwide. The company
employs approximately 10,000 people. For more information about DRS
Technologies, please visit the company�s web site at www.drs.com.
DRS is exhibiting today at the 2007 U.S. Navy League Sea-Air-Space
Exposition, booth 1502, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in
Washington, D.C.
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