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EADS NA Selects Five Companies For UH-72A S&S Equipment Package

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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

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EADS North America and its subsidiary, American Eurocopter, said they've selected five companies to make up the industry team providing components and subsystems for the UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopter Security and Support (S&S) mission equipment package (MEP). The companies are: L-3 Communications [LLL]; LCX Systems; Sierra Nevada Corp.; Ranger Rotorcraft Group; and MARK IV Luminator. An S&S configured UH-72A provides Army National Guard (ANG) units the flexibility to respond to a wide variety of homeland security, homeland defense and…

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