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DRS Teams with Israeli Firm to Add CBRN Filtration to Environmental Units

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, April 7th, 2015

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DRS Technologies has entered a teaming arrangement with Israel’s Beth-El Industries, a developer and supplier of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear filtration systems, to provide enhanced environmental control systems to U.S. warfighters.DRS, a U.S. division of Italy’s Finmeccanica, is the largest provider of environmental control units, which are typically used at forward operating bases to provide conditioned air. The environmental systems are designed to accommodate a filtration unit but the systems are equipped or shipped with the CBRN filters, Dan…

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