Team Apache Systems Awarded Key Helicopter Electronics Contract

By Dan Dupont / October 19, 2000 at 5:00 AM
The Army has awarded a Lockheed Martin-McDonnell Douglas team a $78.5 million contract for new target acquisition and night vision equipment, setting the companies up for lucrative production work on the service's fleet of Apache helicopters. The contractors will perform research and development for the Modernized-Target Acquisition Designation Sight and Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) program. The contract award, announced by the Defense Department Oct. 18, starts with a $31.4 million increment for Team Apache Systems LLC, the joint venture...

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