Gould Receives Navy Award
Photonics Spectra
Apr 2011
Gould Fiber Optics of Millersville,
Md., received a multimillion dollar Life of Type Buy contract from the US Navy to
supply several thousand premium-grade polarization-maintaining fiber splitters through
March 2012. The company was selected to support the modernization and life extension
of the US Navy’s Trident Missile Guidance System. It has worked with Cambridge,
Mass.-based Draper Laboratory, the prime contractor for the modernization of the
system, as well as its inertial sensor subcontractor, Honeywell, to develop high-performance
optical fiber splitters for fiber optic gyroscopes. Gould manufactures passive fiber
optic, planar components and integrated modules for the military, aerospace, sensors
and telecommunications industries.
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