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...Hotline Continued From Page 104 mentation business goes back to the 1970s. Since then, Cubic has delivered more than 5,000 aircraft-mounted “pods” for 40 dif- ferent aircraft at 80 locations worldwide. San Diegans make components for aircraft- mounted pods, ground subsystems and secure components for the systems, which provide live, virtual and constructive (LVC) train- ing — that is, training which combines real people with simulations. Mike Knowles, president of the Cubic Glob- al Defense subsidiary, said in a statement that Cubic plans to increase production of its new-style secure LVC pods in San Diego. The Kearny Mesa-based corporation has con- tracts to produce such training systems for a variety of military aircraft, including the new F-35 Lightning II. Tesla Agrees to Buy Maxwell Technologies for $218M Tesla Inc., the Silicon Valley automaker that also produces energy-generation and storage systems, has agreed to buy Maxwell Technologies of San Diego, a company special- izing in industrial-grade and vehicle-grade capacitors, for approximately $218 million. Maxwell said it expects the deal to close in the second quarter of 2019. Regulators have yet to approve the deal. “ A capacitor is piece of equipment that stores electricity and releases it in a burst. Maxwell makes “ultracapacitors” that go on electric vehicles such as buses. Boeing Receives $2.4 Billion P-8A Poseidon Contract From U.S. Navy The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing a $2.4 billion production contract for the next 19 P-8A Poseidon aircraft. The contract includes 10 aircraft to add to the current inventory of P-8As in the U.S. Navy fleet, all five jets currently under contract for Norway and the four aircraft remaining for the existing United Kingdom contract, bring- ing the total United Kingdom acquisition to nine aircraft. The United Kingdom and Norway are acquir- ing the Boeing aircraft through the Foreign Military Sales process and will receive a variant designed and produced for the U.S. Navy called the P-8A Poseidon. The United Kingdom will receive their first aircraft in 2019 and Norway will begin receiving air- craft in 2021. TCI Precision Metals Increas- es Workforce in CA. Plant Skilled workers at TCI Precision Met- als produce Precision Machine-Ready Blanks that eliminate the need for in-house saw- ing, grinding, flattening and squaring operations. Each blank arrives deburred, clean and to customer specifications, and provide as close as +/- .0005” dimen- sionally and as close as .0002” flatness, squareness and parallelism. TCI Precision Metals recently increased its workforce by 15%. This is in response to increasing awareness and preference for the company’s value-added line of Machine- Ready Solutions, which are designed to help shops increase throughput of production machining jobs. TCI Precision Metals is a, wholesale, Machine-Ready Metals Distributor for Alcoa, Kaiser and Hulamin Aluminum, including 6061, 2024 or 7075 aluminum plate and sheet, stainless steel plate and several other alloys and stocks over 500,000 lbs. of material. Century Spring Corp. Achieves AS9100 Rev. D Certification for Custom Aerospace Parts Los Angeles based Century Spring Corp., has achieved AS9100 Rev. D certification for its custom aerospace spring manufac- turing, quality management system (QMS). AS9100 is an aviation, space, and defense quality standard based on the ISO 9001 quality management system and supported by the International Aerospace Quality Group. AS9100 Rev. D certification provides assurance that products are manufactured to the highest quality standard, ensuring reliability in the most demanding, mission- critical, environments. Cubic Renovates San Diego Manufacturing Space Cubic Corp. is wrapping up renovations of the space at its San Diego campus where it manufactures military training gear. Specifically, Cubic is improving the area where the company produces air combat training solutions. Cubic’s air combat maneuvering instru-