General Atomics’ Electromagnetic Systems unit is providing the Navy with repair parts for its next-generation aircraft catapult and arresting gear, which is being installed on the new USS Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers.
The business said Oct. 9 that it received an order for the equipment, also called spares. Financial terms of the deal were not available.
Some parts will go to the new ship; more will go to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey, which has an airstrip equipped with GA’s Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and Advanced Arresting Gear, abbreviated EMALS and AAG.
GA-EMS runs the programs out of San Diego, where it is providing some hands-on crew training. The company builds major components in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Rolf Ziesing, the recently named vice president of programs at GA-EMS, said the company has “worked tirelessly with the Navy to bring these complex and transformative systems to life.”
GA-EMS said it plans to sustain the same equipment on the next two Ford-class carriers, to be named John F. Kennedy and Enterprise.