GE Aviation's Grand Rapids operations Thursday reported a contract from General Dynamics Land Systems valued at more than $20 million for M1A2 position navigation systems. The order supports the M1A2 Main Battle Tank upgrade program for the U.S. Army.

The systems are manufactured at the GE plant in Michigan with production deliveries taking place through 2013.

The M1A2 position navigation system is a highly accurate position reference system which provides autonomous real-time vehicle position, heading, and attitude. Vehicle reference information is available to the tank commander and the vehicle driver on the station display panels. The system provides location accuracy through inertial sensor technology without external reference or outside data links.

The M1A2 position navigation order is part of GE’s land navigation systems programs that will total more than 2,000 systems within the next five years. GE has been selected for more than 25 world-wide applications to date for heading-pointing and land navigation systems. GE’s current applications include main battle tanks, light armored vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles, air defense system land vehicles, ADS radar vehicles, anti-armor Hummers, reconnaissance vehicles, command post vehicles and unmanned ground vehicles.

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