Sanmina-SCI Defense and Aerospace Systems Division’s FireComm(TM) Selected By Alenia Aeronautica
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Sanmina-SCI Corporation , a leading global electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company, today announced its Defense and Aerospace Systems Division’s third-generation FireComm(TM) intercommunications system has been selected by Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica Company, for integration into the C-27J Joint Cargo Aircraft.
The FireComm system will provide the C-27J crew members with advanced capabilities in terms of digital audio and data processing, enhanced voice warning, secure wireless capabilities, and an open architecture to support both network-centric operations and the integration of evolving technologies at the lowest possible cost.
“We are extremely proud to produce the FireComm system for Alenia Aeronautica and the aviators that will fly the C-27J. Our design and engineering, manufacturing and quality services will result in outstanding system performance for the entire C-27J Joint Cargo Aircraft team,” said Jim Cocke, Senior Vice President of Sanmina-SCI’s Defense and Aerospace Systems Division.
Sanmina-SCI is a proven leader in airborne intercommunications systems with more than 40 years of experience in the Defense and Aerospace industry. This award leverages the previous successful integration of digital audio and data intercommunications systems into numerous other fixed and rotary wing aircraft.
The FireComm airborne intercommunications system is being designed and manufactured by the Sanmina-SCI Defense and Aerospace Systems Division in Huntsville, Alabama. For more information on FireComm, visit http://www.sanmina-sci.com/das or call +1.256.882.4569.
About Sanmina-SCI
Sanmina-SCI Corporation is a leading electronics contract manufacturer serving the fastest-growing segments of the global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) market. Recognized as a technology leader, Sanmina-SCI provides end-to-end manufacturing solutions, delivering unsurpassed quality and support to OEMs primarily in the communications, defense and aerospace, industrial and medical instrumentation, multimedia and consumer, computing and storage, and automotive technology sectors. Sanmina-SCI has facilities strategically located in key regions throughout the world. More information regarding the company is available at http://www.sanmina-sci.com/.
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The foregoing, including the discussion regarding the Company’s future prospects, contains certain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including uncertainties associated with economic conditions in the electronics industry, particularly in the principal industry sectors served by the Company, changes in customer requirements and in the volume of sales to principal customers, the ability of Sanmina-SCI to effectively assimilate acquired businesses and achieve the anticipated benefits of its acquisitions, and competition and technological change. The Company’s actual results of operations may differ significantly from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements as a result of these and other factors, including factors set forth in the Company’s fiscal year 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on January 3, 2007 and the other reports, including quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K, that the Company files with the Securities Exchange Commission.
FireComm(TM) is a trademark of Sanmina-SCI Corporation.
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