ITT Receives $99.8 M to Install EW Systems on Turkish Af F-16 Aircraft

(Clifton, N.J., February 27, 2009) -- ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) has won a $99.8 million competitive award to supply advanced electronic warfare systems to support 30 new F-16 Block 50M aircraft being procured by the Turkish Air Force under the Peace Onyx IV Foreign Military Sales program.

Under a contract from Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins Air Force Base, Ga., ITT's Electronic Systems business will provide the Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare Systems (AIDEWS) and the aircraft's related countermeasures dispensing systems. Delivery of the systems will begin in 2010.


Under the contract, ITT will modify the Turkish Air Force mission systems and deliver associated spares, support equipment, training, engineering services, and data.

ITT Electronic Systems President Chris Bernhardt said, "Selection of AIDEWS by this highly respected NATO ally is very important to us. In the ultra competitive F-16 international electronic warfare market, this award attests to the system's maturity and operational excellence."

Source : ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT)