The U.S. Navy awarded a contract for development of a stealthy periscope that will make it tougher to detect submarines operating just below the surface.
Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems in Syracuse received the $8.7 million pact as part of the Low Profile Mast program, which seeks to develop an electro-optic periscope that has a smaller visual cross-section than the traditional periscope, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
The system will make it more difficult for radar to detect either the scope itself or the wake it produces as the sub travels through the water.
The contract runs through December 2008.
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