Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Global Ground Support wins $15.4M Defense Department contract - Kansas City Business Journal:

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million contract to supply ground-support vehicles for the . The contract callsw for the Olathe-based company to produc 196 deicer vehicles, two preproduction vehicles and 49 production the said in a releaselate Monday. Global Ground Supportg CEO Richard Smith said Tuesday that the 196 deicerasare normal-sized models that work for most Air Forcse aircraft. The other vehicles in the contract are much largetr models used fordeicing C-5 and C-17 aircraft, he The contract is for one base year and has four one-yeaf options, Smith said. It replacese a previous 10-year contract that expireed in June. “We’re extremely happy to get Smith said.
“It’s significany to our business because they are ourlargestr customer.” Smith said the company has suppliecd 420 deicers to the Air Forcer in the past 10 Global Ground Support has a 112,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in where it produces deicing vehicles, scissofr lift trucks, catering trucks, cabin service trucks, biologicak and chemical decontamination systems, mass casualtyt mobile decontamination trailers and other The company is a subsidiary of (Nasdaq: AirT), based in N.C., which organized Global Ground Support in 1997 to buy the Simon Deicer Division of .

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