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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