Wednesday, June 22, 2011

U.S. Navy Selects Lockheed Martin to Provide Submarine Technology Upgrade

USS Connecticut (Seawolf class)Lockheed Martin received a U.S. Navy contract to provide submarine combat and sonar systems designed around commercially available hardware and software.

The indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract has a ceiling value of $758 million.

“Our expertise in taking commercial components and electronics, such as switches, servers and displays, and packaging them to work in the harsh military environment that used to require custom hardware has saved the Navy more than $1.5 billion, and we are using these same processes to maximize continued cost savings to the Navy,” said John Nikolai, Lockheed Martin director for communications and workstations.

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