L-3 Chesapeake Sciences Corp., which creates anti-submarine warfare systems and other submarine devices, opened its doors to federal, state and town officials Monday at its new home at Hopkinton Industrial Park, a 220,000-squarefoot, multi-business facility near Interstate 95's Exit 1.
The company, headquartered in Millersville, Md., moved its Stonington division across the border to Rhode Island in February, inching it closer to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport while maintaining proximity to the submarine base in Groton.
L-3 CSC now employs 34 full-time people - mostly existing employees with a couple of new hires - but it hopes to increase its Ashaway workforce to 120 within three years, said L- 3 CSC President John C. McDaris.
"There are a number of opportunities within the Navy that demand some expansion and some acceleration," he said. "There's some work that we're currently outsourcing to other places that we plan to bring here into the Ashaway facility."
Future jobs would include engineering, manufacturing and testing, he said.
L-3 CSC is expected to be under a $3.8 million defense contract to install TB-33 Thin Line Towed Array systems on all classes of U.S. submarines. Simply put, the device acts as the "eyes and ears" for submarines to detect threats, McDaris said.
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