CAMARILLO, Calif., 31 Jan. 2008.AML Communications Inc. has received new and follow-up orders from customers in the defense industry. The orders total $1.65 Million. Among them is an order from the Lockheed Martin Company for pre-production amplifiers for the MEADS program.
MEADS is a mobile air and missile defense system designed to replace Patriot systems in the United States and Germany and the Nike Hercules systems in Italy.
MEADS will provide capabilities beyond any other fielded or planned air and missile defense system. It will be easily deployed to a theater of operations and once there, will keep pace with fast-moving maneuver forces.
When completed, MEADS will be the only air and missile defense system able to roll off tactical transports with the troops and almost immediately begin operations. More importantly, its open architecture will provide for 21st century air and missile defense system-of-system integration capabilities that allow operational mission-tailoring for homeland defense or defense of maneuver forces. MEADS will also provide greater firepower with less manpower than current systems, producing dramatic operation and support cost savings.
In May 2005, MEADS International (MI) signed a definitive contract valued at $2 billion plus €1.4 Billion for MEADS design and development.
A multinational joint venture headquartered in Orlando, Fla., MI's participating companies are MBDA Italia, Lenkflugkörpersysteme (LFK) in Germany, and Lockheed Martin in the United States.
Mica-Tech, Inc., a subsidiary of the company, designs, manufactures, and markets an intelligent satellite communication system to provide Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) of the electric power grid.
