LaBarge Awarded $2.3M Northrop Grumman Contract Print E-mail
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Written by Chelsey Drysdale   
Tuesday, 23 June 2009 10:22

ST. LOUISLaBarge Inc. has been awarded a $2.3 million contract from Northrop Grumman Corp. to continue to produce electronic equipment for the AN/AAQ-24(V) Directional Infrared Countermeasure system.

LaBarge has worked on the program for more than a decade.

The DIRCM system is scheduled for installation on several hundred military aircraft to protect approximately 48 different types of large fixed-wing transports and rotary-wing platforms from infrared missile attacks.

Production at LaBarge's Tulsa, OK facility is expected to begin in October 2009 and continue through January 2010.


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