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WestWind Technologies Wins US Army Contract

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Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 27, 2010
WestWind Technologies has been awarded a multi-year contract valued at $376M to supply Digital Backbone Kits to the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Life Cycle Management Command (TACOM) for the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle program. TACOM is the acquisition and support center for all of the Army's ground vehicles.

WestWind will supply the Command, Control, Communications and Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Digital Backbone B-Kits in production quantities and package them for integration onto the vehicles. This land vehicle program integrates additional capability to the vehicles, enables future growth, and improves operational capability for the crews.

The company has already received the first $35M order under the new contract and will begin performance immediately. Deliveries on the initial order are scheduled throughout the first half of 2011.

Roger Messick, WestWind's Chief Operating Officer, said, "This contract award builds on our long heritage as a world-class provider of kitting services and our record of on-time deliveries. We know the importance of the work we do to help secure the safety of our nation's war fighters, and we are excited to expand that role as we begin this work for TACOM."

WestWind will perform the contract work at its assembly and distribution facilities in Huntsville, Alabama. DRS-TEM, also located in Huntsville, will produce the video data distribution system which is a key component of the Digital Backbone Kits.



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