This strength was also visible in the large number of visitors. Whereas a total of 32,000 people visited the defence-technology exhibition in the Washington Convention Center in the same period in 2009, this number of participants had already pre-registered for this year’s edition. Kärcher Futuretech, which is one of the few companies already doing business with the US Army, with two current on-going projects, presented the successful operation of two water bottling stations in Camp Dwyer (Helmand Province, Afghanistan). After setting up a suitable infrastructure, about 11,000 bottles per day have been filled with drinking water since August 12. On the last day of the exhibition, the output reached a total of 671,327 bottles – a result that Dariel Mayfield, in charge of “Project Management Petroleum and Water Systems“ (PM PAWS) of the US Army, proudly pointed out. The cooperation between the strategic partner DRS Technologies is visibly yielding fruit.
New in this scenario is Donald E. Strick, Kärcher Futuretech business development manager for the North-American market, who lives in St Louis, MO. Together with sales manager Wolfgang Kliem, he actively prepared the AUSA in such a way that more than 20 high-ranking personalities from the close Kärcher Futuretech environment only (US Army, PM PAWS, DRS Technologies) accepted an invitation to the residence of the German Ambassador in Georgetown. Kärcher Futuretech would be glad and will do its utmost to remain and further develop its position on the US market to achieve stable sales figures also in the future. The JSTDS-SS, a light decontamination system, for which DRS Technologies obtained a follow-up order from the US Army in the middle of this year, was, of course, an obligatory exhibit at the joint stand of the 14 German exhibitor companies as well as the innovative Water Bagging System which is able to fill 2 to 20 litre bags with water in the field.