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Updated: 2:14 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010 | Posted: 10:55 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010

Urbana company to provide aviation lighting for U.S. Army

Staff Report

Grimes Aerospace Co., of Urbana, has been awarded a $14.7 million contract to provide aviation lighting power supplies to the Army, the Defense Department said.

Grimes, the company founded in the 1930s by businessman Warren Grimes, dubbed “the father of aircraft lighting,” has been a dominant provider of aircraft lighting for U.S. military planes since before World War II.

Grimes Aerospace, now part of Honeywell International Inc., is the sole-source supplier under the contract from Defense Logistics Agency Aviation at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., the Defense Department said.

The contract runs through July 2015.

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