Sparton Corporation, Ultra Electronics Awarded $10.8M Subcontracts for US Navy Sonobuoy

Sparton Corporation

and Ultra Electronics - USSI, a subsidiary of Ultra Electronics Holdings plc (ULE) announce the award of subcontracts valued at $10.8 million to their ERAPSCO joint venture, for the manufacture of sonobuoys for the United States Navy. ERAPSCO will provide production subcontracts in the amount of $5.6 million and $5.2 million to Sparton Electronics Florida, Inc. and USSI respectively. Production will take place at Sparton's DeLeon Springs, FL facility as well as USSI's Columbia City, IN facility and is expected to be completed by April 2015. ERAPSCO was awarded a contract for the AN/SSQ-53F, a passive acoustic sensor used for detection, classification, and localization of adversary submarines