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Whittaker Aerospace Products

In 1996, Whittaker Aerospace Group continued to build on its industry wide reputation for designing and developing high quality, high reliability and performance-packed aerospace, defense, and industrial products. Products in the Aerospace Group are manufactured and marketed worldwide by three Whittaker divisions.

ValveWhittaker Control Systems.- The Company's Whittaker Controls division provides hydraulic, pneumatic and fuel control valves installed in critical flight and flow control systems on virtually every aircraft and jet engine manufactured in the world with the exception of former Soviet and Communist countries. These valves and control systems are fitted on a wide array of military and commercial aircraft positioned from nose to tail.

During the past year, Whittaker also signed contracts with industrial product manufacturers to supply various control systems for jet engines configured for use in the growing field of power co-generation. Control valves for these land-based systems were designed and delivered to General Electric, Stewart & Stevenson and Cooper Industries.



Whittaker Safety Systems.- Whittaker Safety Systems develops a wide range of fire and overheat sensors and detectors as well as specialized control panels and monitors for the aircraft and industrial markets. Products developed by Safety Systems are used in demanding applications where reliability and performance are critical to system operation and overall safety. Safety Systems has installed its flame and overheat sensors on scores of commercial and military aircraft engines, power co-generation turbines, mass transit systems and in industrial applications to include the petro-chemcial facilities.

AIRCRAFT FIRE AND SMOKE DETECTION

INDUSTRIAL FIRE AND GAS PROTECTION


Whittaker Electronics Systems. - For more than four decades, Whittaker Electronic Systems (WES) and its predecessor operations have been called on by the Armed Forces and defense industry to design, develop and manufacture state of the art products to meet the country's evolving strategic and tactical national security needs.

Innovative hardware, such as the Shortstop Electronic Protection System (SEPS) and Advanced Early Warning Systems, digital RF memories and ruggedized displays and monitors were created in direct response to specific mission-critical requirements. Today WES commands a well-deserved worldwide reputation for radar countermeasures and command and control systems' superiority, delivering top quality technology backed by integrated logistics support such as in-the-field overhaul, repair and training Whittaker will continue to make investments in new technology development in order to maintain a leadership position in its specialized niche areas of the defense electronics market.

The defense industry remains in a state of overall consolidation and recession and is likely to remain as such for the foreseeable future. However, recent commitments by the Administration to increase spending for defense electronics in such areas as survivability and C3 are encouraging, as are growing demands for exportable technologies from foreign nations seeking to meet regional security needs. International demand in defense segments such as advanced early-warning systems and tactical ballistic missile detection is evident since the Gulf War. Developing countries continue to assess national security threats and acquire tactical ballistic missile and associated weapons systems from the major weapons-producing countries, who are seeking increased exports to maintain internal economic stability and a sound defense industrial base.


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Last updated: 01 June 1997


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