The precision optical components are aluminum, beryllium and beryllium alloy optical mirrors for Lot 4 production requirements on the Arrowhead electro-optical system.
The latest contract is the fourth consecutive award to MRC Optics for Arrowhead aluminum mirrors since 2002. The new award covers double-digit deliveries per month through December 2008, and contains options for additional quantities. The dollar value of the contract was not disclosed.
Arrowhead is the Army’s Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) system that AH-64 Apache helicopter pilots use for safe flight in day, night or bad weather missions. Arrowhead’s advanced technology can improve both system performance and system reliability by more than 150% while maintenance actions decrease approximately 60%.
Dan Lehrfeld, president and CEO of Photonic Products, said: Our MRC Optics team and I are pleased to increase our involvement as a member of Lockheed Martin’s Arrowhead team, keeping pace with increasing requirements. The Apache platform has proven itself to be an indispensable tactical war fighting system and we believe continued production of the Lockheed Martin Arrowhead upgrade will therefore remain a high priority in the DOD.
