SYRACUSE, N.Y — The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $147 million, follow-up contract to upgrade the Navy fleet’s electronic-warfare defenses against developing threats like anti-ship missiles.
Under this pact for Block 2 of the Navy’s Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP), Lockheed Martin will build 14 systems to upgrade the system, called AN/SLQ-32(V)2, on all U.S. aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers and other warships with key capabilities to determine if the electronic sensors of potential enemies are tracking the ship, according to a Lockheed Martin news release issued Monday.
Work on the SEWIP program will be performed at the defense contractor’s plant in the town of Salina, just north of Syracuse.
“This subsequent SEWIP Block 2 contract continues our support of the U.S. Navy with capabilities that will rapidly introduce new technology to the sailors,” Joe Ottaviano, SEWIP program director for Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training, said in the release. “Our fleets are facing a rapidly changing threat environment in theaters across the globe. This contract allows us to continue providing much needed technological advances that will help outpace our adversaries and protect our warfighters.”
Block 2 is the latest in an “evolutionary succession of improvement blocks” the Navy is pursuing for its shipboard electronic-warfare system, which will gradually add new defensive technologies and functional capabilities, Lockheed said in the release. In 2013, the company, including its Salina plant, was awarded 10 systems, which it is now in the process of delivering to the Navy fleet. In July, the Navy installed Lockheed Martin’s SEWIP Block 2 system on the USS Bainbridge ship.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs about 113,000 people worldwide and produced net sales of $45.4 billion in 2013.
The company employs about 1,600 people in Salina.
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