ST. LOUIS -- LaBarge Inc. has been awarded a $10.7 million contract to continue to provide
Northrop Grumman with electromechanical subsystems and modules for a state-of-the-art automated mail sorting system. The award continues LaBarge's production of the assemblies through May 2007.
LaBarge-built equipment is part of the Automated Flats Sorting
Machine-Automated Induction (AFSM-ai) system, a fleet of machines that
together can sort 26 billion pieces of flat mail per year. LaBarge
began manufacturing the subsystems and modules in July 2005, under a
previous contract. The equipment enhances the system's in-feed units,
which the company manufactured between 1999 and 2002.
LaBarge will perform the
work at its Huntsville, AK, facility.