Teledyne News and Information
7/27/2005 12:00:00 AM
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (July 27, 2005) — Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc. (TBE) announced today that it has been awarded a contract with a ceiling of $2.8 million over a two year period from the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) in Edgewood, MD.
This is the first task received under a five year ID/IQ contract that was awarded to Teledyne Brown by ECBC.
As part of this task, Teledyne Brown will provide advanced engineering design and rapid prototyping support to ECBC’s Advanced Design and Manufacturing (ADM) Team. Teledyne Brown engineers and technicians will supplement the ECBC ADM Team with state of the art Computer Aided Engineering/Design/Modeling and manufacturing expertise. This highly skilled team will be working to quickly fabricate prototypes for chemical and biological defense systems and other equipment, thereby reducing the time required to put new, improved capabilities in the field.
“Teledyne Brown has been providing the Army and NASA with our design and manufacturing expertise since the early rocket program days; now we have an opportunity to broaden our market to the leading chemical and biological defense research center,” said Jim Link, president, Teledyne Brown Engineering. “We look forward to joining with the ECBC team to field new equipment to our nation’s military.”
Edgewood Chemical Biological Center provides state-of-the-art science, technology and engineering solutions to protect the warfighter and serve national interests. ECBC’s capabilities span the life-cycle of chemical and biological defense research and product development. ECBC actively seeks opportunities to apply warfighter innovations to the war on terrorism both globally and domestically. ECBC is located at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
About Teledyne Brown Engineering
Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., headquartered in Huntsville, Ala., is a full-service technology solutions company with core capabilities in technology development, systems engineering, design, prototype development, testing, manufacturing, logistics, and operations and maintenance. These capabilities are applied across a wide range of programs in aerospace, defense, information technology, and environmental engineering. More information about Teledyne Brown Engineering may be found at www.tbe.com.
About Teledyne Technologies Incorporated
Teledyne Brown Engineering is a wholly owned subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE: TDY), headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif. Teledyne Technologies is a leading provider of sophisticated electronics components, instruments and communications products, systems engineering solutions, aerospace engines and components, and on-site gas and power generation systems. Teledyne Technologies has operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Canada. For more information, visit Teledyne Technologies’ website at www.teledyne.com.