updated: 1/30/2012 1:47:10 PM

Military Boosts Whitley County Company Contract

InsideINdianaBusiness.com Report

ERAPSCO Inc. in Columbia City has received a $38 million modification to a military contract. The U.S. Navy has exercised an option for more than 50,000 sonobuoys. More than half the work will be done in Whitley County.

January 27, 2012

ERAPSCO, Inc., Columbia City, Ind., is being awarded a $38,416,565 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, performance based contract (N00421-11-C-0030) to exercise options for the production of 50,430 AN/SSQ-53F sonobuoys for the Navy (49,990) and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States (440). Work will be performed in Columbia City, Ind. (53 percent), and DeLeon Springs, Fla. (47 percent), and is expected to be completed in January 2014. This contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy ($38,081,382; 99.1 percent) and for the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office ($335,183; 0.9 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

Source: U.S. Department of Defense