Caton Receives Raytheon’s Supplier Excellence Award!! Kingston, MA, March 2, 2010 – In a national award ceremony conducted at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA, Caton was recognized for its quality and performance by Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS), a $5B business unit of Raytheon. Dan Ryan, IDS Vice President presented the 2009 Supplier Excellence Award to Daniel J. Galambos, President/CEO. Raytheon recognizes its suppliers based on three important factors: on-time delivery, sustained performance on quality and commitment to continuous process and quality improvement. “Our high voltage connectors and cable assemblies provide an unprecedented level of technological capability to the PATRIOT, JLENS, ZUMWALT and AEGIS programs and ultimately help protect the brave men and women of the United States Military” said Caton President Dan Galambos. "Also accepting this award from Dan Ryan was pretty cool since we go back more than 25 years!" Starting in the early 1970’s Caton has been supplying product for many Raytheon programs and consistently records corporate-wide quality ratings for on-time delivery, quality of product, and quantitative scores over 95%. Caton was accepted as a member of the Raytheon Technology Team in 1996 and has since earned Raytheon’s Preferred Supplier designation. |
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Caton earns score of 99.5% on its third annual ISO9001 / AS9100 Quality Audit!! After a three day, comprehensive quality annual audit conducted by National Quality Assurance (NQA), Caton received a near perfect score of 99.5%. Citing thorough processes and procedures reflecting a high standard of excellence, the auditor expressed his high praise for the Caton facility and Caton employees. The audit was orchestrated by Caton’s Jean Brinkman and Richard Hamaty. |
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Press Release Caton Connector Corporation has been awarded a contract from Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems for the power cable assemblies that will be used on the DDG-1000 Zumwalt – class destroyer. The cable assembly consists of a 9 pin molded circular connector and has 34 different variations. The assembly will be used in a segment of the ship’s computing environment infrastructure which serves as the ship’s primary LAN and as the hardware platform for all of the ship’s software. Caton Connector has achieved a Preferred Supplier status with Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems and this contract results in an intial requirement for 144 assemblies. The Zumwalt-class destroyer (DDG-1000, previously known as the DD(X) program) is a planned class of United States Navy destroyers, designed as multi-mission ships with a focus on land attack. The Zumwalt-class destroyers are multi-role and designed for surface warfare, anti-aircraft, and naval fire support. They take the place of the battleships in filling the former congressional mandate for naval fire support, though the requirement was reduced to allow them to fill this role. The vessel's appearance has been compared to that of the historic ironclad. Caton Connector Corporation – Kingston, Massachusetts, founded in 1973, is a manufacturer of high voltage connectors and cable assemblies for use in the Military, Semiconductor, Utility, Medical and Avionics industries. The majority of Caton’s products operate at voltages up to 100kVdc; altitudes up to 50,000 ft and have partial discharge levels of less than15kV RMS. Assembly configurations have up to 13 conductors, multi-shields, use single, double and triple extruded silicone cable and are built to lengths of up to 300 feet. |
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