Awarded Materials Contracts for Six Other Airborne Optical Components
ELMORE, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Materion Beryllium & Composites, a Materion Corporation (NYSE:MTRN)
business, announced today that it has delivered the first finished
AlBeCast® aluminum-beryllium investment cast components to Lockheed
Martin for the F-35 Lightning II Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS)
following first-article inspection (FAI) approval.
Lockheed Martin's EOTS for the F-35 Lightning II is a high-performance,
lightweight, multi-function system that provides precision air-to-air
and air-to-surface targeting capability. As the first sensor to combine
forward-looking infrared and infrared search and track functionality,
EOTS enhances F-35 pilots' situational awareness and allows aircrews to
identify areas of interest, perform reconnaissance and precisely deliver
laser- and GPS-guided weapons. Lockheed Martin has delivered more than
170 EOTS for the F-35 Lightning II.
"We are proud to supply Lockheed Martin with parts and materials for
these critical investment cast components, and we are pleased to support
Lockheed Martin's cost-reduction efforts on the F-35 EOTS program with
the AlBeCast technology breakthroughs," said W. Glenn Maxwell,
President, Materion Performance Metals group.
He said that deliveries would continue under the supply contract
announced one year ago and that Materion has received the contract for
the next AlBeCast order. In addition, he said Materion has been awarded
materials contracts for six other high-performance beryllium-containing
parts in the Lockheed Martin EOTS.
Aluminum-beryllium materials and castings provide favorable cost/benefit
advantages for technically demanding applications such as EOTS that
require a combination of ultra-light weight, high stiffness, mechanical
stability and thermal properties. The proprietary AlBeCast technology
extends Materion's aluminum-beryllium product offering beyond its
powdered metallurgy-derived AlBeMet materials by offering rapid
prototyping and solidification modeling to provide investment cast parts
with short lead times at competitive pricing. Casting is a near
net-shape process that requires less beryllium consumption than
conventional processing. In addition, the time needed for fabricating
finished parts is reduced. The combination of reduced material and
fabrication costs can be substantial.
AlBeCast investment casting alloys are 25% less dense than aluminum and
four times the specific stiffness of aluminum, titanium, steel, and
magnesium. They have higher dampening capacity than aluminum and a
coefficient of thermal expansion almost 50% lower than aluminum. The
AlBeCast process meets standard cast aluminum design guidelines and
requires minimal design changes.
Materion Corporation is headquartered in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. The
company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, supplies highly
engineered advanced enabling materials to global markets. Products
include precious and non-precious metals, inorganic chemicals and
powders, specialty coatings, specialty engineered beryllium alloys,
beryllium and beryllium composites, and engineered clad and plated metal
systems.
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