GE gets defense contracts

AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Mar 17, 2009

GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has received two one-year contracts, with nine separate option years each, by the U.S. Defense Supply Center Philadelphia.

The contracts, with a combined maximum value of $63 million annually, include products for acute patient monitoring, networking, telemetry systems, and vital signs monitoring.

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