This latest purchase order provides further funding under a five year contract issued in December 2002 that provides for up to $8.8 million in purchases. Including this latest purchase order, MTI Instruments has secured $5.32 million in orders accounting for approximately 60% of the contract's total value.
Under the contract, MTI Instruments has been retrofitting USAF PBS-4100 systems with the latest diagnostic and balancing technology and providing maintenance for those systems.
MTI Instruments' PBS-4100 - used by military forces, major airlines, and aircraft engine manufacturers in more than fifty countries - automatically collects and records aircraft engine vibration data, identifies vibration or balance trouble and calculates a solution to the problem, resulting in reduced engine vibration, longer engine life and lower fuel costs.
"The growing government sector continues to be a key focus for our business development initiatives," said Dale Church, Chairman and CEO of MTI. "We are very pleased to continue our close work with the Air Force in support of this important need for the military."
The PBS-4100 system has become an Air Force standard for vibration diagnostics and balancing, and is currently being used in ten major aircraft platforms including surveillance aircraft, attack fighters, strategic bombers, stealth aircraft, and transport aircraft.
In addition, the Air Force uses the company's popular PBS-4100R test cell system at each of its major air logistics test centers.