Sensotron Signs 10-Year Pact to Make Part for Army Copters

Sensotron Inc. said Friday that it has signed a contract worth $8 million to $10 million over the next 10 years to supply a part for the Army’s UH-1 Huey and Comanche helicopters. The agreement is with Allison Gas Turbine, a division of General Motors Corp., which is building the T-800 gas turbine engine. Sensotron, with annual revenue of about $3 million, makes silicon-on-sapphire transducers, which are designed to sense, signal and regulate minute changes in pressure in the engine. “This puts us into the big time,” Jan Matthews, Sensotron’s vice president of marketing, said. The Huntington Beach company, founded in 1985, was formerly known as Powerec International.