Bruker Daltonics Announces Large DoD Order for Ion Trap Mass Trap Mass Spectrometers for Chemical and Biological Defense

19-Sep-2001
Bruker Daltonics Inc. (NASDAQ: BDAL - news) today announced that it has received a contract from the United States Department of Defense (DoD) for ion trap mass spectrometers for chemical and biological defense. The total contract value exceeds $10 million, with revenue expected to be spread over five quarters from Q2-2002 to Q2-2003. This contract had been initiated prior to the tragic events of last week. The systems ordered by the U.S. Army are Bruker Daltonics' advanced Chemical Biological mass spectrometers (CBMS), which are primarily used for the detection of biological warfare agents. CBMS systems are an integral part of the Army's Biological Integrated Detection System (BIDS). For BIDS information, see http://in1.apgea.army.mil/products/bids.htm Each CBMS is an integrated and fully automatic bioanalytical system that consists of air sampling devices, substance concentrator and dissociation modules, as well as a rugged, mobile ion trap mass spectrometer. After the biological or chemical agents are detected by the mass spectrometer, the final classification is done by Bruker bioinformatics software. Frank H. Laukien, Ph.D., President and CEO of Bruker Daltonics, commented: ``We believe that this significant order further validates our strategy of deploying integrated systems based on mass spectrometry for both life-science research and drug discovery, as well as for chemical and biological detection in security, defense and anti-terrorism applications. While we are not raising our revenue and EPS estimates, this large contract gives additional visibility to our financial projections for 2002 and 2003.''

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