by Mike Buetow

ROGERSTONE, South Wales, Jan. 15 - Ultra Electronics Sonar and Communication Systems has awarded a major defense electronics contract to Ttems, a provider of EMS services. Under terms of the deal, worth a reported £6 million over the next 10 years, Ttems will build sonobuoys as part of a program for the U.K. Ministry of Defence.

TTems will be involved in design and manufacturing the sonobuoys.

Sonobuoys are devices that can be dropped from helicopters to detect and locate underwater objects by reflecting/intercepting acoustic waves from an underwater, surface, or above surface acoustic source. The sonobuoys operate in the same way that radar and radio direction finding equipment operate with electromagnetic waves.

U.K.-based Ttems is a subsidiary of TT electronics. It is comprised of AB Electronic Assemblies in Rogerstone, South Wales, and Welwyn Systems in Blyth, Northumberland.

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