AN/TPQ-53 Lockheed Martin
Trust Autation Receives Fourth Contract To Provide Motion Control System for Counterfire Radar Production
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., November 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Trust Automation, Inc., the world’s leading developer of linear servo drives, creator of custom and standard high precision motion, motor control and system design as well as complete power train devices for the defense and other industries, today announced its fourth Low Rate Initial Production contract for the rugged and high tech vehicle automation system for the AN/TPQ-53 (Q-53) produced by Lockheed Martin. AN/TPQ-53 is a counterfire target acquisition radar that provides soldiers with enhanced 360-degree protection from indirect fire.
The AN/TPQ-53 is a new generation radar system with the flexibility to adapt to harsh environments and changing missions. In today’s rapidly evolving security landscape of unconventional battlefields and irregular warfare, our soldiers need to quickly locate and neutralize mortar and rocket threats. The AN/TPQ-53 meets this challenge head on.
“Trust Automation has been providing industry leading power density, accuracy, and reliability, for the electro-mechanical control systems needed for the Next Generation of DoD heavy military equipment including the AN/TPQ-53 since 2008,” said Ty Safreno, Chief Executive Officer of Trust Automation. “Due to the continued success of the AN/TPQ-53 delivered systems by Trust Automation, a fourth contract has been awarded.”
Trust Automation is an AS9100 certified Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) bringing high quality and reliability to the motion control defense market in a spectacular way. The AN/TPQ-53 system has been globally deployed and proven its capabilities in harsh environments such as monsoonal rain, sand storms, subzero to extreme hot desert conditions, as well as the shock and vibration exposure common to in-theatre deployment.
