Herley Industries Inc. announced that Micro Systems Inc. (MSI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Herley located in Ft. Walton Beach, FL, has received a contract valued at approximately $3.5 M, including options, from the Department of the Air Force Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Systems Wing at Hill Air Force Base. Micro Systems will qualify and produce a Global Positioning System (GPS) Full Signal Translator (FST) in support of the Minuteman III Weapon System operational test flight program.
The FST is a small, lightweight device that frequency translates and downlinks Global Positioning System (GPS) signals to enable precise post-flight trajectory reconstructions used in testing and evaluation of different flight systems. Herley chairman and CEO, Myron Levy, commented, "The FST was originally developed by Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Micro Systems Inc. has been awarded a contract to qualify and then produce this device. Micro Systems has received a funded award totaling approximately $1.8 M for the engineering and qualification stage. In addition, options for production, which will bring the contract to more than $3.5 M, are scheduled between 2008 and 2010. This award piggybacks on the technology developed by Herley Industries Inc. for other military missile programs."