LaBarge Tulsa plant lands $5.6 million contract
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December 02, 2010
By D.R. STEWART, Staff Writer
Tulsa World
12/2/2010LaBarge Inc., the St. Louis-based electronics and aerospace manufacturer
with operations in Tulsa, has been awarded a $5.6 million contract to
produce electronic assemblies for L-3 Communication Systems-West, company
executives said Wednesday.The electronic assemblies will be used in L-3′s high-performance data-link
systems, company officials said. The systems transmit intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance information among military aircraft, ships,
satellites and ground stations around the world.Production of the electronic assemblies has begun at LaBarge’s plant at
11616 E. 51st St. and will continue through December 2011, company
executives said. The plant employs 150 people.The L-3 contract is the second announced by LaBarge this week. On Monday,
the company said it had landed a contract from Moog Inc. of East Aurora,
N.Y., to manufacture printed circuit-card assemblies for the Lockheed
Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.As with the L-3 contract, production on the F-35 contract will be at
LaBarge’s Tulsa facility, beginning in March and continuing through
February 2012, company executives said.“Our expanded state-of-the-art electronics manufacturing capabilities make
us a highly capable choice to produce the high-performance printed
circuit-card assemblies our customer requires for this demanding
application,” President and CEO Craig LaBarge said of the F-35 contract.LaBarge employs 1,400 people worldwide, including 400 people in Joplin,
Mo., and 300 in Berryville and Huntsville, Ark.L-3 Communication Systems-West of Salt Lake City is a subsidiary of New
York-based L-3 Communications Holdings Inc.It provides high data rate, wideband, secure, real-time communications
systems for surveillance, reconnaissance and other airborne intelligence
collection systems for the Department of Defense and other government
agencies.
