Optics

Edmund Optics awarded smart sensor defense contract

April 17, 2015

Edmund Optics received a multi-million dollar defense contract for optical components supporting a Smart Sensors System.

Gail Overton

Optical components company Edmund Optics (EO; Barrington, NJ) has received a multi-million dollar defense related contract for custom optical components supporting a Smart Sensors System. While Edmund Optics is well known for their extensive catalog of COTS (commercial off the shelf) optics, the company also manufactures precision grade custom optics for the defense, security, and sensors industries. In addition to Smart Sensor Applications, EO supplies optics for such programs as PVS 14, ENVG Night Vision, One Shot, Family of Weapon Sights for Individual ground soldier (FWSI), as well as multiple smart munition and missile systems with leading US Prime contractors.

"What makes EO unique in the Defense Industry is our ability to quickly modify our COTS components domestically, while offering cost-effective volume optics at one of our off-shore manufacturing locations through our TAAs (Technical Assistance Agreement). This provides our customers quick delivery in small quantity and substantial cost savings in volume," said Bill Dover, director of business development for Defense and Special Programs. Dover went on to say that, "EO maintains a rigorous global quality program which recently received high marks from top defense customers for outstanding performance, delivery, and quality."

Edmund Optics president and COO, Samuel Sadoulet, also said that "EO's extensive in-house manufacturing capabilities and application expertise have gained significant traction with our customers. We see positive response to new investments in IR molding and diffractive optics technologies, which in conjunction with traditional processing, pave the path to lighter and higher performing optics for systems supporting the defense industry."

Edmund Optics will be exhibiting at SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing from April 21-23 in Baltimore, MD.

SOURCE: Edmund Optics; http://www.edmundoptics.com/company/press-releases/press-article.cfm?id=465

About the Author

Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)

Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.