Company Gets $13.6 Million for Bradley Fighting Vehicle Test Systems

September 28th, 2007

DRS Technologies has been awarded a $13.6 million contract from the U.S. Army to continue manufacturing Direct Support Electrical System Test Sets (DSESTS) and Test Program Sets (TPS) for the U.S. Army’s M2A2 and M3A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle Systems.

The contract was awarded to DRS by the Army’s Tank Automotive and Armaments Command Life Cycle Management Command’s (TACOM LCMC) Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center at U.S. Army Garrison, Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois. The TACOM LCMC placed the order on behalf of the office of the Army’s Program Executive Office for Ground Combat Systems and its subordinate office of Program Manager for Heavy Brigade Combat Team in Warren, Michigan. The work for this contract will be performed by the company’s DRS Test & Energy Management unit in Huntsville, Alabama.

As part of this contract DRS will produce Bradley A3 Test Program Sets, Bradley tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided (TOW) missile Test Program Sets, and components for Bradley Fighting Vehicle Systems and DSESTS kits. Product deliveries are expected to start immediately with completion expected by August 2008.

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