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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Teledyne Awarded $383 Million Shallow Water Combat Submersible Contract

Shallow Water Combat Submersible (SWCS)Teledyne Technologies Incorporated announced today that its subsidiary, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., in Huntsville, Ala., was awarded a contract from the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to design, develop, test, manufacture and sustain the Shallow Water Combat Submersible (SWCS), a replacement system for the current SEAL Delivery Vehicle. The contract, including all options, is valued at $383 million.

Teledyne Brown successfully developed a full-scale interior mockup of the SWCS vehicle, provided hullform models and a demonstration of the system's functionality under a Phase One Critical Item Development (CID) Contract awarded in October 2010.

The SWCS System is a manned combat submersible vehicle specifically designed to insert and extract Special Operation Forces (SOF) in high threat areas.

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