ST Engineering’s electronics arm, ST Electronics, today announced that it has been awarded a contract worth about $34 million by the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) to transform the emergency call-taking and despatch system in its Operations Centre (Ops Centre) into a new generation command and control system called Advance Command, Control and Communications Emergency System (ACES).

Work on the project will beging immediately and is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2012. The contract is awarded to ST Electronics’ wholly-owned subsidiary, ST Electronics (Info-Software Systems) Pte Ltd.