Ultra secures orders worth £54m from Rolls-Royce

DEFENCE supplier Ultra has won contracts worth £54m from Rolls-Royce for the supply of reactor control and instrumentation systems for Royal Navy submarines.

The contracts will be split between Ultra’s businesses, Command & Control Systems, based at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and PMES, based in Rugeley.

The scope of the contracts includes the manufacture of multiple systems and spares. Work on the contracts starts immediately and will continue until the end of 2014.

Ultra, which also has an operation in Birmingham, has been working since December 2004 on the development of the equipment.

The group’s role is that of equipment designer and manufacturer for the control and instrumentation suite and includes the full spectrum of system engineering disciplines, including requirements capture, architecture design, development, verification and qualification.

Rakesh Sharma, chief executive of Ultra, said: “I am pleased that Ultra has been awarded this contract by Rolls-Royce relating to the new reactor control and instrumentation equipment for Royal Navy submarines.

“Through our continuing strategic relationship we are happy to support Rolls-Royce, and its end customer, with Ultra’s proven range of innovative specialist technologies.”
 
Ultra has around 150 distinct markets or technology niches within its 24 businesses. The diversity enables the group to maximise opportunities within the defence sector, together with aerospace and civil platforms.

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