DRS Technologies Inc has received a new order, valued at about $9 million, to refurbish M1000 Heavy Equipment Transport (HET) trailers returning from deployment in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Manufactured by DRS, the M1000 is engineered to transport United States Army tanks and other heavy equipment, including the Army's fleet of M1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks, over primary and secondary roads or rough terrain.
The order was received from the US Army's Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) in Warren MI. Work for this award will be accomplished by the company's DRS Systems & Electronics unit in West Plains MO.
This most recent order is part of a previously awarded contract to refurbish more than 1,000 M1000 MET trailers over a five-year ordering period ending in October 2008.
The M1000 MET system can transport all types of tracked and wheeled vehicles, containers, and large bulk cargo weighing as much as 80 tons on- or off-road. In the past 12 years, more than 2,300 M1000 MET systems have been produced and deployed with the Army worldwide.