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FLIR Systems revenues up

May 01-15, 2011

FLIR Systems, Inc. revenues for the first quarter of 2011 is up 30 per cent at $373.5 million, compared to first quarter 2010 revenue of $287.3 million. Operating income in the first quarter was $76.6 million, compared to $84.3 million in the first quarter of 2010, and was impacted by a lack of RAID shipments as well as acquisition-related charges.

Revenue from the Company’s Government Systems division increased 13 per cent over the first quarter of 2010, to $178.8 million. Within the Government Systems division, revenue from the Surveillance segment, comprised of the legacy Government Systems business and the imaging and radars businesses acquired with the fourth quarter 2010 acquisition of ICx Technologies, Inc., was $149.9 million, a decrease of five per cent from the first quarter of 2010.Revenues from Government Systems’ other two new segments, Detection and Integrated Systems, which were created following the acquisition of ICx, were $17.9 and $11.1 million, respectively.