Gichner Awarded $42 Million Order for Mobile Facility Shelters
Dallastown, Pennsylvania - November 8, 2006 - Gichner Shelter Systems, a division of Gichner Systems Group LLC, and a world leader in the design, development and production of tactical and logistic shelters and shelter systems, is being awarded a $42,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for up to 1,000 mobile maintenance facilities for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division of the United States Navy, for use in the testing and operation of various avionics systems. Work will be performed in Dallastown, Pa., and is expected to be completed in November 2011.
Gichner is the world's largest producer of this type of shelter. We have now produced more than 7,000 of these shelters for the US Navy alone. These shelters where designed and produced for the U.S. Navy's Mobile facility program, in several different shelter configurations allowing for a wide array of applications. A significant benefit of these shelters is their ability to be complexed. This can be accomplished several ways. The shelters can be connected at the personnel doors via special butting kits that provide an environmental seal between the shelters. Multiple side removable shelters can be joined into larger complexes providing large open interior spaces.
Gichner Shelter Systems can provide any of the standard Mobile Facility configurations, combine features to create a custom configuration, or make special modifications as required for a specific application.
Gichner Shelter Systems designs, manufactures and integrates tactical and logistic shelters and related products for military and commercial applications. Its shelters, assembled from lightweight bonded panels fabricated using both foam and beam and honeycomb core construction are used worldwide. Gichner's core products include all of the US military Standard Family of Tactical Shelters as well as numerous custom designed shelters and derivatives.
In addition to its extensive line of standard shelters, Gichner provides turn-key systems that are "rack ready" for the installation of its customers electronic systems. Gichner offers more than 35 years of engineering expertise in the application of proven solutions and the development of custom solutions to systems mobility and environmental protection of electronic systems. Its customer list includes virtually every major prime contractor as well as all of the major military buying commands. Gichner products are sold and serviced worldwide.
