Emerging Business

Business Overview

Provider of environmental remediation, waste disposal, ordnance reclamation and safety management services. Supplier of batteries for military and aerospace applications. Provider of information systems and acoustic processing equipment, secure data equipment, simulation environments. Operations in Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Approximately 275 employees. Fiscal year 1996 sales from continuing operations: $40 million.

Group Vice President:
Donald E. Willis

Competencies
  • Acoustic data/signal processing
  • Data acquisition, processing, and analysis
  • High-fidelity environmental simulation
  • Automated production of high-performance lithium batteries
  • Munitions and propellant reclamation
  • Uncooled infrared sensors
  • Electro-magnetic emission testing and shielding
End Users

Major Programs
  • Lithium and polymer batteries
  • Analog/Digital Adaptable Recording Input/Output (ADARIO)
  • Synthetic test range environments
  • Ordnance reclamation
  • Uncooled infrared camera
  • Computer ruggedization
  • System for the Effective Control of Urban Environment Security (SECURES)
Significant Events
August 1995 Awarded $1.7 million contract from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a SECURES (System for the Effective Control of Urban Environment Security) prototype to detect, analyze, and relay the location of gunfire in urban environments to law enforcement officials.
August 1995 Began construction of facility to house electromagnetic interference (EMI) test business serving the rapidly growing market created by a new requirement that all electronic products sold in Europe undergo EMI testing and certification.
December 1995 High-powered, long-life lithium sulfur dioxide batteries designed and produced by Power Sources Center provided power for measurements of Jupiter's atmosphere by the Galileo entry probe following a six-year journey to the largest planet in the solar system.
December 1995 Global Environmental Solutions awarded $3.3 million contract for reclamation of more than 25,000 M117 general purpose bombs used extensively throughout the Vietnam conflict.
February 1996 IBM computers ruggedized by Advanced Technology Applications began undergoing evaluation by the North Carolina Highway Patrol for potential use as a highway accident information collection system.