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Specialty glass inventor Schott was awarded a $2.7 million contract to supply infrared glass for U.S. Army air defense systems, U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-8, Moosic, announced Wednesday at the facility.

Schott’s recent order supplies infrared glass for launch tube windows, a critical component of air defense systems to the U.S. Army and its Stinger missile program, said Cartwright, who helped secure the contract.

Cartwright announced the contract on what he said was the 413th day since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.

For more than a year, he said Ukrainian air defenses reinforced by Western weaponry have kept Russian fighter planes at bay. Because of these efforts, he said Ukrainians have been able to face the onslaught of this “evil, unprovoked aggression on their lives, their homes and their country.”

“Today’s announcement is good news for Ukraine and bad news for the criminal Vladimir Putin,” Cartwright said. “We’re going to be able to deliver even more Stinger missiles to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as we stand in solidarity with Ukraine and its people.”