Teletronics gets $60million Air Force contract

Teletronics Technology Corp., a Newtown Township manufacturer, received a U.S. Air Force contract worth up to $60 million over five years.

The contract is essentially a negotiated shopping list that allows the Air Force's flight-test community to order from among roughly 2,000 Teletronics products, Albert Berdugo, the privately held company's executive vice president and chief technology officer, said Friday.

The contract "is exciting to us, not only because it is big, but it gave us the opportunity to include all the latest developments that we've done in the last three years," Berdugo said. He said Teletronics had been negotiating the new contract for three years.

Many of the Teletronics products are used for flight testing in the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet programs, Berdugo said.

All of the products "are designed, manufactured, and tested right here in our facility in Newtown," where the company employs 205, a third of them engineers, he said.

The F-35, made by Lockheed Martin Corp., is the Pentagon's most expensive program and has long been in the crosshairs of some congressional budget cutters. In May, Lockheed Martin executives visited Teletronics to help illustrate the importance of the F-35 program to subcontractors. Teletronics already was a supplier to the program.

Company executives said then that the F-35 accounted for 40 percent of Teletronics's $50 million in annual revenue.