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GICHNER NEWS
November
8, 2006
GICHNER AWARDED $42 MILLION ORDER FOR MOBILE FACILITY SHELTERS
Dallastown, Pennsylvania – November 8, 2006 - Gichner
Shelter Systems, a division of Gichner Systems Group LLC,
and a world leader in the design, development and production
of tactical and logistic shelters and shelter systems, is
being awarded a $42,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery,
indefinite-quantity contract for up to 1,000 mobile maintenance
facilities for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division
of the United States Navy, for use in the testing and operation
of various avionics systems. Work will be performed in Dallastown,
Pa., and is expected to be completed in November 2011.
Gichner is the world's largest producer of this type of
shelter. We have now produced more than 7,000 of these shelters
for the US Navy alone. These shelters where designed and
produced for the U.S. Navy’s Mobile facility program,
in several different shelter configurations allowing for
a wide array of applications. A significant benefit of these
shelters is their ability to be complexed. This can be accomplished
several ways. The shelters can be connected at the personnel
doors via special butting kits that provide an environmental
seal between the shelters. Multiple side removable shelters
can be joined into larger complexes providing large open
interior spaces.
Gichner Shelter Systems can provide any of the standard
Mobile Facility configurations, combine features to create
a custom configuration, or make special modifications as
required for a specific application.
Gichner Shelter Systems designs, manufactures and integrates
tactical and logistic shelters and related products for
military and commercial applications. Its shelters, assembled
from lightweight bonded panels fabricated using both foam
and beam and honeycomb core construction are used worldwide.
Gichner's core products include all of the US military Standard
Family of Tactical Shelters as well as numerous custom designed
shelters and derivatives.
In addition to its extensive line of standard shelters,
Gichner provides turn-key systems that are "rack ready"
for the installation of its customers electronic systems.
Gichner offers more than 35 years of engineering expertise
in the application of proven solutions and the development
of custom solutions to systems mobility and environmental
protection of electronic systems. Its customer list includes
virtually every major prime contractor as well as all of
the major military buying commands. Gichner products are
sold and serviced worldwide.
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