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ITT’s System Engineering Approach To CIRCM A Discriminator, Officials Say

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, July 29th, 2011

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By the end of September, the Army is likely to award the contract for the Common Infrared Countermeasures program (CIRCM), a crowded competitive field where ITT Defense [ITT] believes it has an important discriminator, officials said in an interview. “We took what we deemed to be a system engineering approach and this company has a long history of solving difficult engineering problems not just building product,” said Robert Ferrante, ITT's vice president for Airborne Electronic Attack. “We looked at this…

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