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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

ITT-Gilfillan to upgrade Navy's AN/SPS-48 shipboard radar systems

Engineers from the ITT Corp. Radar Systems–Gilfillan segment in Van Nuys, Calif. are starting low-rate initial production of a program to upgrade the U.S. Navy's AN/SPS-48 radar system, which Gilfillan designed in the 1980s.

Gilfillan is working under terms of an $18 million contract from Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) in Washington as part of the AN/SPS-48 Radar Obsolescence, Availability Recovery (ROAR) program.

ITT received $14.2 million following a critical resign review in October. To date, ITT earned $57 million for the NAVSEA ROAR program to keep the AN/SPS-48 systems in service until at least 2045.

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