U.S. Navy Awards DRS with $6 M Contract to Manufacture Air Conditioning Coils for Its Two New LPD Ships

(Parsippany, N.J., November 20, 2007) -- DRS Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: DRS) announced today that it received a $6 million contract from the Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE: NOC) Ship Systems sector in Pascagoula, Mississippi, to manufacture standard fan coil assemblies, fan coil units, duct cooling coils and gravity cooling coils for the U.S. Navy's eighth and ninth newest San Antonio LPD (Landing Platform Dock) 17 class ships - LPD 24 USS Arlington, and LPD 25 USS Somerset.

The contract is a follow-on award and the work will be accomplished by the company's DRS Marlo Coil unit in High Ridge, Missouri. DRS Marlo Coil won the original subcontract in 1999 to provide all of the coils used in the air conditioned spaces aboard the first San Antonio LPD 17 class ship - LPD 17 USS San Antonio. To date, the total value of the contracts to provide air conditioning coils for the first nine of this class of ship is approximately $25 million.


"It is quite an honor to provide equipment for two ships named in honor of those killed on September 11, 2001. LPD 24 is named in honor of the city of Arlington, Virginia, and the victims from American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and LPD 25 is named in honor of the victims from the United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in an open field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania," said Thomas G. Cornwell, president of DRS' Sustainment Systems business segment.

Source : DRS Technologies Inc.