Cubic wins $32.8 million recompete to continue
Navy flight and tactical instruction on East Coast
SAN
DIEGO, Calif. – August 31, 2006
-- The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has awarded the
defense segment
of Cubic Corporation (Amex: CUB) a new $32.8 million contract
to provide instruction, simulator operation and curriculum
support to the Naval Air Forces U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
The five-year
contract continues Cubic’s
strong presence at Naval Air Stations Oceana and Norfolk
in Virginia, and
Naval Air Stations Jacksonville and Mayport in Florida. It
includes both flight and tactical instruction in the classroom
and on simulators.
“With this new contract, Cubic will teach every tactical
aircraft the Navy flies on the East Coast,” commented
Harold Carlisle, director of Navy Programs for the Worldwide
Technical Services Division, part of Cubic’s Mission
Support Business Unit.
Cubic
won the recompete as part of the Field Training Systems
Support II Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ)
contract that the company received last year. Cubic had previously
delivered services to the Navy under an earlier five-year
ID/IQ contract.
The new
contract continues and expands Cubic’s
business at NAS Oceana, where Cubic instructors currently
assist Navy
crews in learning to fly both the F/A-18 C/D Hornet and F/A-18
E/F Super Hornet.
At NAS Norfolk, Cubic will continue to provide instruction
services for pilots of the E-2 Hawkeye radar aircraft, C-2
Gray Hound and the H-53 transport helicopter; and also for
Naval Flight Officers for the E-2 Hawkeye radar aircraft,
while adding a new helicopter platform, the SH-60 Sierra.
At Mayport, Cubic will continue to provide flight instruction
for the SH-60 Bravo multipurpose helicopter, but will also
branch out into developing and writing tactics for backseat
personnel.
Cubic’s
team at NAS Jacksonville will continue to teach crews how
to fly the P-3 Orion surveillance
aircraft,
the S-3B Viking refueling and cargo aircraft, and the SH-60
Foxtrot carrier-based multipurpose helicopter.
The
Worldwide Technical Services Division is part of the
Mission Support
Business Unit of Cubic Defense
Applications
(CDA), one of Cubic Corporation’s two major segments.
CDA is a world leader in realistic combat training systems,
mission support services and defense electronics. The corporation's
other major segment, Cubic Transportation Systems, designs
and manufactures automatic fare collection systems for public
mass transit authorities. For more information about Cubic,
see the company's website at www.cubic.com.