StockerYale Awarded Specialty Optical Fiber Contract from Northrop Grumman Newport News for Virginia Class Submarines
Sep 18, 2007 10:12:01 (ET)
SALEM, N.H., Sep 18, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- StockerYale, Inc. (STKR, Trade ), a leading designer and manufacturer of structured light lasers, LED modules and specialty optical fibers for industry leading OEMs, today announced a significant contract award for its specialty optical fiber by Northrop Grumman Newport News (NGNN), a sector within the Ships business of Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC, Trade ), for the U.S. Navy's Virginia class submarine fleet.
The fiber will be used for Light Weight Wide Aperture Array (LWWAA) Hydrophone Systems in support of the Virginia class attack submarine program. StockerYale will supply fiber to Northrop Grumman Newport News for the next three submarines to be added to the fleet. Fiber shipments to Northrop Grumman Newport News are expected to begin in September 2007.
"We're excited to partner with world class customers like Northrop Grumman on critical programs that demonstrate our technical expertise and ability to produce large quantities of highly-specialized optical fiber" said Mark Blodgett, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of StockerYale. "Our engineers and scientists worked diligently to customize a fiber that meets the exact technical and time-sensitive requirements for the LWWAA program as outlined by Northrop Grumman. We are pleased to be awarded this important, defense contract."
The US Navy's Virginia class submarines employ LWWAA systems on either side of the hull, which provide sonar sensor input to the submarine's combat system. Northrop Grumman designed, developed and manufactures the key optical sensing elements of the Fiber Optic Acoustic Sensors (FOAS) arrays for the LWWAA system. StockerYale's specialty optical fiber is a key component for NGC's FOAS arrays.
"This is both our first major government contract and largest contract for specialty optical fiber received to date," Blodgett noted. "As we continue to grow our specialty optical fiber business, we will realize strong financial operating leverage from this higher margin, high potential business unit."
About StockerYale
StockerYale, Inc., headquartered in Salem, New Hampshire, is an independent designer and manufacturer of structured light lasers, LED modules, and specialty optical fibers for industry leading OEMs. In addition, the company manufactures fluorescent lighting products and phase masks. The Company serves a wide range of markets including the machine vision, industrial inspection, defense, telecommunication, sensors, and medical markets. StockerYale has offices and subsidiaries in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. For more information about StockerYale and their innovative products, visit the Company's web site at www.stockeryale.com .
About Northrop Grumman Corporation
Northrop Grumman Corporation is a $30 billion global defense and technology company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in information and services, electronics, aerospace and shipbuilding to government and commercial customers worldwide.
For more than a century, Northrop Grumman Newport News has designed, built, overhauled and repaired a wide variety of ships for the US Navy and commercial customers. Today, Newport News is the nation's sole designer, builder and refueler of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and one of only two companies capable of designing and building nuclear-powered submarines. The company also provides after-market services for a wide array of naval and commercial vessels. For more information about Northrop Grumman, visit www.northropgrumman.com
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