Bruker Daltonics Announces Major Indian-Subcontinental Navy Contract for its RAID™-S Shipboard Chemical Agent Detectors
15 June 2007
Leipzig, Germany – The Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) detection business of Bruker Daltonik today announced that it has received a €3.5 million ($4.7 million) contract award for its RAID-S chemical agent detectors from a major navy on the Indian subcontinent.
Bruker Daltonics is expected to deliver and integrate its RAID-S detectors in the second half of 2007 and the first half of 2008, in order to provide real-time chemical agent detection capabilities on board navy vessels of various classes. The contract also includes a multi-year maintenance contract.
Mr. Sebastian Meyer-Plath, vice-president for CBRN Detection at Bruker Daltonics, commented: "We are very pleased with our selection. This contract is more evidence that the RAID-S has arguably become the most advanced shipboard chemical agent detector in the world today, with detection performance and interference rejection second-to-none. This contract extends our RAID-S users list by another major blue water navy."
