WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (UPI) — Lockheed Martin is being given a Navy Sea Systems contract modification to continue development and production of a sonar system.
The modification is the exercise of an option in a contract awarded earlier to Lockheed Martin’s Mission Systems and Training and is worth more than $129.4 million for fiscal 2016.
Being developed for the Navy is the Acoustic Rapid Commercial Off-The-Shelf Insertion system, a sonar system that integrates and improves towed array, hull array, sphere array, and other ship sensor processing, through rapid insertion of COTS-based hardware and software.
“The contract provides funding for the development and production of the A-RCI and common acoustics processing for Technology Insertion 12 through Technology Insertion 14 for the U.S. submarine fleet and for foreign military sales,” the Department of Defense said.
Work under the contract option is expected to be completed by December 2016.
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