Detectors & Imaging

Heads-up displays: L-3 awards Zygo $4.7M contract for Advanced Helmet Mount Displays

Sept. 16, 2010

Middlefield, CT--Zygo’s Optical Systems Division was awarded a $4.7 million continuation contract for Advanced Helmet Mount Displays from L-3 Communications.

Gail Overton

Middlefield, CT--Zygo Corporation (NASDAQ: ZIGO), a supplier of optical metrology instruments and high precision optical systems, announced that its Optical Systems Division was awarded a $4.7 million continuation contract for Advanced Helmet Mount Displays (AHMD) from L-3 Communications, Link Simulation and Training Division, in support of two new programs from the United States and Australian Air Forces.

"Zygo's AHMD continues to provide industry leading performance and ergonomics for today's most demanding flight simulator applications," said John Stack, president of the Optical Systems Division. "AHMD is uniquely suited for fixed wing applications that require high visual acuity and field of view, so it is not surprising that the demand for this product continues to grow."

This continues production of AHMD's from an earlier contract, when Zygo was awarded a multi-million dollar contract to produce AHMD's for the United States Air Force F-16 air crew training program in late 2009.

The AHMD was developed by Zygo's electro-optics group, which provides optical systems to the defense, life sciences, and industrial markets. Zygo Corporation is a supplier of optical metrology instruments, precision optics, and electro-optical design and manufacturing services serving customers in the semiconductor capital equipment, bio-medical, scientific, and industrial markets.

SOURCE: Zygo; www.zygo.com/?c=75779&p=irol-newsArticle&t=Regular&id=1471050

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About the Author

Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)

Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.