Orbit International's Power Group Receives Two New Orders Valued at Approximately $1.6M

Orbit International

today announced that its Power Group, through its Behlman Electronics subsidiary, received two new orders for its Commercial division totaling $1,621,800. Deliveries under these contracts require approximately $830,000 to be shipped during the first half of 2013 and the balance from August 2014 through March 2015. Both orders are for an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for use on the U.S. Naval LHA Amphibious Assault Ship. The unit's unique packaging enables Behlman to achieve the shortest chassis depth in the industry, giving Behlman a unique competitive advantage for this application. As a result, Behlman has had a long association with this program and with this latest award, has received three production orders for this UPS as well as an order for spare units. Based on customer input, in the next few months Behlman expects to receive an order totaling over $316,000 for battery chassis to be used with these units as well as a spare parts order valued at approximately $188,000 in support of the three U.S. Navy LHA ships outfitted with these units. Ron Storm, President of Behlman Electronics commented, “These orders reflect Behlman's reputation as a premier power solutions provider. This expertise has enabled us to build enduring business relationships and supply numerous long-term production programs, which have been instrumental in Behlman's business growth. By focusing on finding solutions to our customers' power system problems, Behlman supplies a large number of ongoing programs that provide many years of repeat business and recurring revenue for us.” Separately, the Company announced Behlman's entry into the VPX market with the introduction of two new 6U, OpenVPX™ power supplies: 1) the Behlman VPXtra™ 1000CD, a dual output, high power, DC-DC COTS power supply, and 2) the Behlman VPXtra™ 1000CM, a multi output, high power, DC-DC COTS power supply. VPX is a broadly defined technology utilizing the latest in a variety of switch fabric technologies in 3U and 6U format blades. OpenVPX is the architecture framework that defines system level VPX interoperability for multi-vendor, multi-module, integrated system environments.