API Technologies Awarded $2.7 Million in New Contracts for JCREW Counter-Explosive Technology

source defpro.com

ORLANDO, Fla., July 19, 2011 /PRNewswire

API Technologies Corp. ("API" or the "Company"), a provider of electronic systems, subsystems, RF, and secure solutions for the defense, aerospace, and commercial industries, today announced it has been awarded new contracts valued, in aggregate, at $2.7 million to produce circuit card assemblies for use in counter-explosive equipment under the Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (JCREW) program.  API's Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) / SenDEC division was awarded the order by a major defense electronics systems integrator and will be used by the U.S. Armed Forces at home and abroad.

Bel Lazar, API Technologies' President and Chief Operating Officer, commented, "As a leading solutions provider for the detection and disposal of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), we are pleased by this award and the value it will bring to our soldiers and bomb squads, as well as the general public, in various locations across the world."