DRS Technologies wins $7.1 million contract from U.S. Air Force to repair radar systems

PARSIPPANY, N.J., 4 August 2007.DRS Technologies Inc. won a $7.1 million contract from the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, to provide depot repair services for the receiver/transmitters and antenna subsystems in APQ-170 TF/TA radar systems.

The work for this one-year award will begin immediately and be performed by the company's DRS Sustainment Systems business unit in St. Louis, Mo.

The AN/APQ-170 radar is a multimode, redundant, dual-band, forward-looking radar that integrates terrain-following and terrain-avoidance features, as well as ground-mapping, weather detection and avoidance, and beacon interrogation modes of operation. It was specifically developed for the Air Force's MC-130H Combat Talon II airplane.