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The company has been tasked with ramping up its delivery of night vision gear for the US Marine Corps.
Elbit Systems of America has been awarded a $49 million (AU$70 million) contract to deliver Squad Binocular Night Vision Goggle (SBNVG) systems to the US Marine Corps.
The gear is set to be developed from the company’s facility in Roanoke, Virginia, and supplied through September 2023.
This latest contract forms part of a $249 million (AU$356 million) five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract awarded on 6 September 2019.
The SBNVG is billed as a lightweight helmet-mounted system, designed to provide superior night-time viewing in various environments and conditions.
The gear is expected to improve warfighter situational awareness and performance, leveraging an enhanced battery life and white phosphor image intensification tubes for improved clarity and depth perception.
“This recent order for additional Squad Binocular Night Vision Goggles signifies that Elbit Systems of America is a partner of choice by the US Marine Corps,” Raanan Horowitz, president and CEO of Elbit Systems of America, said.
“We are honoured that Marines are equipped with our night vision solutions and we are committed to continuing to provide our warfighters with the very best technology we have to offer.”
This is Elbit Systems’ latest order, coming just months after its receipt of a US$130 million (AU$172.8 million) contract to provide an artillery munitions production line for an undisclosed country in the Asia-Pacific.
The two-and-a-half-year contract is set to involve the construction of a turnkey industrial complex for enhanced manufacturing of artillery munitions.
[Related: Elbit Systems wins artillery munitions contract ]
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