Press Release Archive

September 2005

Two Sonalysts, Inc. Releases:

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Development of the Integrated Submarine Imaging System for the U.S. Navy with Kollmorgen Electro-Optical

Sonalysts, Inc. has been awarded a fixed price subcontract for $2.9 million by Kollmorgen Corporation, Electro-Optical Division of Northampton, Massachusetts in connection with the Naval Sea Systems Command procurement of the Integrated Submarine Imaging Systems (ISIS). This award is the first increment in what is expected to become a $17.4 million subcontract. ISIS will be the future imaging system for U.S. Navy submarines, including SSN 688 and SSGN classes. ISIS will provide all weather visual and electronic search capabilities, sensor controls and displays, digital imagery management, and automated tools for periscope depth operation. The system will be based on extensive use of commercial-off-the-shelf technology to allow upgrades as technology and requirements evolve.

The work under the initial pre-production phase of this contract is expected to be completed by February 2007. Sonalysts’ work in the first year includes three distinct areas. The first involves design, fabrication, integration, and testing of one pre-production system as well as the design of follow-on production systems. Sonalysts is also responsible for development of an ISIS interactive, electronic technical manual. This manual will take ISIS technical information and display it on a computer for easy access by ISIS operators and maintenance personnel. The third area of responsibility is development of training curricula for operations and maintenance courses. Sonalysts’ instructors will conduct the first training course for U.S. Navy personnel at Kollmorgen’s facility in Massachusetts.

The value of the prime contract awarded to Kollmorgen was $22.7 million, and includes options, which if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of the prime contract to $111.4 million. In addition to Sonalysts, Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics and Surveillance Systems is a subcontractor to Kollmorgen.

Although Sonalysts worked for many years in submarine communications, imaging, and electronic warfare sensors, this is the company’s first subcontract with Kollmorgen.

Sonalysts’ Vice President Mike Phelps stated: “Sonalysts’ work in the ISIS program uses many of Sonalysts’ traditional capabilities – operational perspective, technical documentation, and training materials development, and brings them together with our recent efforts in electronics design and submarine antenna fabrication and repair to result in a multi-year production effort.”
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Sonalysts Awarded $16.7 Million in Contracts for Imaging and Electronic Warfare Program Support

Sonalysts, Inc. has recently been awarded six orders, totaling over $16.7 million, by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWC) located in Newport, Rhode Island. Sonalysts will provide engineering, fabrication, installation, and other services in support of the Navy’s imaging and electronic warfare programs. The orders were placed under the Navy’s Seaport-e Contract Program, which the Navy uses to procure most of the services it requires from contractors. The work will primarily be performed in Waterford, Connecticut and Newport, Rhode Island.

Sonalysts’ subcontractors for portions of this work are Systems Engineering Associates Corporation of Middletown, Rhode Island; Research and Development Solutions, Inc. headquartered in McLean, Virginia; and Mercer University’s Mercer Engineering Research Centre of Warner Robbins, Georgia. In addition, a number of local firms will provide hardware and materials for these efforts.

Sonalysts has been supporting the Electromagnetic System Department of NUWC since the early 1980’s, and has provided services for a number of electronic warfare programs for this department for almost twenty years. If the options included in these orders are exercised by NUWC, the orders will continue through 2009, making this department of NUWC one of Sonalysts’ oldest continuous customers.

Three of the orders involve providing a variety of technical and engineering services for imaging and electronic warfare programs, including operations analysis, system and software engineering and maintenance, library and database development, and equipment fabrication and maintenance.

Several of the orders involve antenna and range finding systems used on Navy submarines. Sonalysts performs not only engineering support for these hardware systems, but also repair, refurbishment, installation, testing, and deployment.

These orders for NUWC, combined with Sonalysts’ subcontract support to Kollmorgen Electro-Optical under the Naval Sea Systems Command’s Integrated Submarine Imaging System Program, have resulted in an unprecedented volume of work for the company in this technical area.

Roger Hanson, who heads Sonalysts’ Antenna Laboratory stated: “We at Sonalysts are pleased to continue this support to one of our long standing customers. We have immediate job openings for qualified electrical engineers, electronic engineers specializing in RF design, electronics technicians with experience in periscope antennas, and former Navy instructors to work on these challenging programs.”