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Article: Griffon Corporation Announces $13.5 Million Contract From U.S. Air Force.
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- November 27, 2001
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JERICHO, N.Y. -- Griffon Corporation today announced that its electronic information and communication systems subsidiary, Telephonics Corporation, received a $13.5 million contract award from the United States Air Force Warner Robins Air Logistics Center to upgrade the entire US fleet of Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft with the latest Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) receiver-transmitter technology.
Aimed at dramatically improving mission capability, this new technology upgrade complements the recent retrofitting of the AWACS' Target Extractor processors. "Telephonics' IFF equipment and processing technology is specifically designed to ...