News | March 19, 1999

ALLIEDSIGNAL: AlliedSignal awarded contract to operate NASA's White Sands Test Facility

MAR 18, 1999, M2 Communications - LAS CRUCES, New Mexico -- AlliedSignal Technical Services Corporation has been awarded a seven-year, $324-million contract by NASA to operate the White Sands Test Facility, America's premier installation to test and evaluate rocket propulsion systems, materials and other components vital to the U.S. space program.

AlliedSignal will staff and operate a number of major functions at this facility, including tests of rocket propulsion fuel and fuel/air mixtures that are critical to the safe introduction and ongoing use of propellants. AlliedSignal will test a wide array of spacecraft hardware, including life cycle tests of the Space Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS), Reaction Control System (RCS) and other Shuttle flight hardware systems. Among the key projects will be ongoing support of flight and ground tests of the prototype X-34 reusable space shuttle at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

AlliedSignal has been the prime contractor of the White Sands Test Facility since 1994.

"AlliedSignal is proud that it will continue to provide state-of-the-art research, development, test and evaluation of spacecraft systems and components, as well as laboratory testing of materials, for America's space program," said Ivan Stern, president and chairman of the board of AlliedSignal Technical Services. "Our strong partnership with NASA at the White Sands Test Facility has already led to ISO9001 certification here and the first ever Hammer Award given jointly to a government-industry team," he said.

The AlliedSignal subcontracting team at White Sands includes L&M Technologies Inc. and Lynx, Ltd. L&M Technologies will provide logistics, engineering drafting and construction, technology information, facilities maintenance and operations. Lynx will provide environmental services.

AlliedSignal Technical Services Corporation is the world's leading organization in spacecraft flight control, telemetry data handling and information processing, with other core competencies in large-scale logistics and engineering services. The unit is a wholly owned subsidiary of AlliedSignal Inc., a $15-billion advanced technology and manufacturing company serving customers worldwide with aerospace and automotive products, chemicals, fibers, plastics and advanced materials. The company employs 70,400 people worldwide. AlliedSignal is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard and Poor's 500 Index, and was named by Fortune magazine as the most admired aerospace company, both in the U.S. and globally. Fortune also included AlliedSignal in its list of the "100 Best Places To Work In America." Forbes Global listed AlliedSignal in 1999 as the world's best diversified company. More information on AlliedSignal is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.alliedsignal.com.

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