Bendix Oceanics Inc

Bendix Oceanics Inc. in Sylmar, a division of technology conglomerate Allied-Signal Inc., said it has scuttled expansion plans and may have to lay off workers after the U.S. Navy rejected a Bendix sonar system in favor of one made by a French company.

Bendix Oceanics Inc. in Sylmar, a division of technology conglomerate Allied-Signal Inc., said it has scuttled expansion plans and may have to lay off workers after the U.S. Navy rejected a Bendix sonar system in favor of one made by a French company.

Bendix Oceanics Inc., a division of technology conglomerate Allied-Signal Inc., said it has scuttled expansion plans and may have to lay off workers after the U.S. Navy rejected a Bendix sonar system in favor of one made by a French company. The Navy in December selected Thomson Sintra ASM, a unit of Paris-based Thomson-CSF, to develop its airborne low frequency sonar (ALFS), an advanced sonar system capable of detecting newer-generation submarines that are quieter than their predecessors.