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Press Release – 1/12/2007

Antenna Associates Inc. of Brockton, MA was awarded a repair and overhaul contract for the AN/TPS-70 Antenna System’s Omni Directional IFF/SSR (Identification Friend or Foe / Secondary Surveillance Radar) Antennas with Hill AFB.

Antenna Associates Inc. will repair, retune and range test the AN/TPS-70 Identification Friend or Foe Antennas bringing them back to original state.  The antennas will then be returned to Hill AFB where they will rejoin the rest of the AN/TPS-70 Radar System.

Globalsecurity.org describes the AN/TPS-70 as, “The Westinghouse (now Northrop-Grumman) AN/TPS-70 3-Dimensional phased array radar is a single-channel, search and secondary mobile system that provides the operator with the capability to track 500 targets, displaying target range, height, azimuth, Identification Friend/Foe (IFF) information from an altitude of 0 to 100,000 feet to a maximum range of 240 nautical miles”. Reference more on the AN/TPS-70 Radar System at: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/systems/an-tps-70.htm.

Antenna Associates, Inc. is innovative in the design, development, manufacture, repair and refurbishment of microwave antennas and antenna systems for defense and commercial markets worldwide.  From our headquarters located in Brockton, MA, Antenna Associates distributes our products to market leaders in both the defense and commercial markets.