Cubic wins $4.5 million contract to upgrade
receivers used on P-3 Orion aircraft
SAN DIEGO, California – April 26, 2006 – Cubic
Defense Applications, the defense segment of Cubic Corporation
(AMEX:CUB), has received a new, $4.5 million contract from
the Naval Air Warfare Center in Patuxent River, Maryland,
to modernize its AN/URR-81 receivers to ensure that these
highly reliable receiver systems can continue to play an
important role in U.S. Navy missions.
Cubic is scheduled to deliver six new one-channel master
units, and 15 24-channel auxiliary units, by September 2007.
Cubic will also furnish retrofit kits to upgrade existing
systems.
Dan
McCormick, senior director of Business Development for
Cubic’s Communications and Electronics Business
Unit, said Cubic’s current AN/URR-81 receivers have
proved very robust and reliable during their 15 years of
service to the Navy. As a result, the fit, form and function
of the new units will be nearly identical to the existing
systems.
“Cubic did the original development for these receivers
back in the 1990s, and the Navy came back for more of the
same because they work so well and are easy to use; the operators
like them, ” McCormick said. “The new technology
will be easier to maintain and is also being designed to
expand and evolve to fit in with the U.S. military’s
new mission initiatives, including potential connectivity
with future command and control, wideband and signal intelligence
technologies.”
Cubic’s Communications & Electronics Business
Unit is part of Cubic Defense Applications (CDA). One of
Cubic Corporation’s two main 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 web site at www.cubic.com.