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Air Force awards $49 million contract to CTC

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Staff Report 9:50 AM Friday, June 19, 2009

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The Air Force has awarded Concurrent Technologies Corp. a five-year, $49 million contract to continue work on developing alternative energy sources and a laser system to take paint off aircraft.

CTC already has developed hand-held tools to take paint off aircraft parts. The company now is being asked to devise next-generation tools that could handle similar work for larger aircraft sections and entire planes, said Tom Naguy, environmental and energy program manager in the Air Force Research Laboratory’s materials and manufacturing directorate.

The robot-guided lasers will simplify the costly, time-consuming job of stripping aircraft of paint before repainting, Naguy said Thursday, June 18. The technology also is expected to reduce generations of thousands of pounds of hazardous solvents and waste generated from such work each year at Air Force bases, he said.

The contract awarded this week also calls for CTC to develop alternative fuels and hydrogen-storage fuel cells.

CTC, based in Johnstown, Pa., has employees at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where the AFRL is located.

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