L-3 Communications gets $255.3 million US Army contract for night vision goggles technology

L-3 Communications gets $255.3M US Army contract

SEATTLE — Defense contractor L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. received a $255.3 million Army contract for 220 enhanced night vision goggles test articles and associated contracts date requirement lists.

The Defense Department said Thursday that L-3’s Insight Technology, which it acquired in February, will perform the work in Londonderry, N.H.

Work is expected to be complete by Aug. 10, 2013.

The contract is with the U.S. Army Research, Development & Engineering Command, Contracting Center in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.