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MAY 23, 2002, 11:00 EDT
LOS ANGELES -- Teledyne Technologies announced that Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc. has been selected as a strategic subcontractor to Orbital Sciences Corporation to perform work on ground-based boost vehicles for America's missile defense program. The contract performance period is eight years, and the potential contract value to Teledyne Brown is $23.5 million.
A part of the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program, the boost vehicles will lift advanced exo-atmospheric kill vehicles (EKVs) into space. These vehicles are designed to locate, track, and destroy intercontinental ballistic missiles in flight. Teledyne Brown will support Orbital's GMD boost-vehicle program through Teledyne's engineering facility in Huntsville, Ala. and with personnel located at Orbital facilities in Chandler, Ariz.
Teledyne's role on the Orbital Sciences program will be in the areas of systems/specialty engineering, logistics, and software support. The company currently plays a major role in support of the GMD program, with personnel stationed around the world providing support to the Department of Defense and to major prime and other contractors.
The Ground-based Midcourse Defense program is in its fifth year of advanced development, and is based on technologies pioneered in the 1980s and 1990s by the Missile Defense Agency. GMD is currently a research and development program incorporating extensive ground and flight tests to determine system performance against intercontinental ballistic missile targets.
Teledyne Technologies is a leading provider of sophisticated electronics components, instruments and communications products, systems engineering solutions, and aerospace products and components, with operations in the United States, the United Kingdom and Mexico.
More information can be found at www.teledyne.com .
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