READING, Pa., 14 June 2007. Fidelity Technologies Corp. (Fidelity) of Reading, Pa., won a $310,000 military contract to build 3,000 surface wire grounding kits for the U.S. Army's Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) at Fort Monmouth, Eatontown, N.J.
CECOM issued the award to Fidelity as a five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract.
"Grounding kits are essential to soldiers, as they provide 'earth-ground,' which facilitates better communications and sensor performance by reducing interference and distortion," Fidelity general manager, Charles Gulati, says. "Also, these kits provide significantly improved lightning strike survivability."
Grounding kits, also known as MK-2551 A/U, are bagged kits comprising grounding wires, stakes, and hammers. They are used with fielded mobile communications systems during high mobility operations.
Grounding wires are threaded through stakes, which are hammered into the ground around a sheltered communications system, usually housed in a military vehicle. A benefit of these kits is they are easily installed and removed, providing a better option for war fighters in situations where driving and retracting conventional ground rods would be difficult and time consuming.
Fidelity produces all elements of the kit for delivery to the U.S. Army.
