Teledyne Awarded $7.5M to Support NASA Test
Laboratory
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THOUSAND OAKS, California -- March 5, 2008
-- Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE: TDY)
announced today that its subsidiary, Teledyne Brown
Engineering, Inc., in Huntsville, Ala., has been awarded a
$7.5 million task order to provide engineering services to the
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Test Laboratory through
September 19, 2010.
The Laboratory will be testing elements of the Ares
launch vehicle. Teledyne Brown will be providing MSFC with
engineering support, expert assessment and recommendations in
several areas including the pressure systems certification.
Teledyne Brown will also provide test conductors, engineers,
modification, activation and operation of mechanical and
electrical systems at Laboratory facilities and facility
configuration control and change management documentation
processes.
"Teledyne Brown is proud to play an important role in
NASA's new vision for space exploration," said Robert
Mehrabian, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of
Teledyne Technologies.
NASA is developing the Ares Launch vehicles to return
humans to the moon, and later take them to Mars and beyond.
Teledyne Brown is currently supporting development of the Roll
Control System for Ares I-1, the rocket that will take future
astronauts into orbit, as well as the development of the Ares
I-1 integrated thermal model.
Teledyne Technologies is a leading provider of
sophisticated electronic subsystems, instrumentation and
communication products, engineered systems, aerospace engines,
and energy and power generation systems. Teledyne
Technologies' operations are primarily located in the United
States, the United Kingdom and Mexico. For more information,
visit Teledyne Technologies' website at www.teledyne.com.
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