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SEA secures £5m UK and overse
SEA secures £5m UK and overse.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 9458H Cohort PLC 12 November 2008 \n12 November 2008\nCohort plc\nSEA secures £5m UK and overseas orders\n \nCohort plc, a leading independent technology group, today announces that SEA, its wholly owned subsidiary company, has been awarded contracts to the value of £5.4m. The contracts reflect the operational and international diversity of SEA’s business portfolio, with two from the UK Ministry of Defence, and one each from the French Defence Ministry, Japanese Government and Network Rail.\n \nUK Ministry of Defence:\n \n· a contract for two elements of the software-based Common Simulation Framework (CSF) Project, supporting the Joint Battlefield Training and Synthetic Environments Integrated Project Team. Valued at circa £1.6 million, the high-profile software project will deliver core capability into Army training and simulation. \n· a key research contract for the development of a warship radar detection technology demonstrator, aimed at enhancing the UK’s maritime electronic warfare capability. Valued at £1.75m, SEA is being supported by MASS, another Cohort Group company.\n \nFrench Defence Ministry:\n \n· through their French agent ITER, SEA will support GESMA, the underwater research arm of the French Defence Ministry, by providing assembly and partial engineering of an underwater vehicle-mounted advanced sonar for hunting mines buried below the seabed. SEA will develop the sonar's data acquisition and control system mounted on the vehicle. Contract valued at circa £850k.\n \nJapanese Government:\n \n· SEA’s Aerospace division has started work on a millimetre wave mechanism and electronics destined for incorporation in the Japanese Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) Instrument. The CPR instrument will be part of the joint Europe-Japan EarthCARE satellite mission which is scheduled for launch in 2013. Contract valued at up to circa £700k.\n \nNetwork Rail:\n \n· SEA’s Transport division has secured a contract from Network Rail for the design, development and delivery of the Exc...