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Monday, March 26, 2012

Lockheed Martin to provide Navy submarines with 360-degree situational-awareness sail-mounted sonar

[USS Connecticut (Seawolf class)]U.S. Navy officials needed special submarine sonar systems to help enable submarine commanders to enhance their tactical control when operating not only in shallow-water coastal areas and harbors, but also in open-ocean areas.

They found their solution from the Lockheed Martin Corp. Mission Systems & Sensors segment in Liverpool, N.Y.

Officials of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington awarded Lockheed Martin a $13.1 million contract option last week for four Low-Cost Conformal Array (LCCA) sonar systems for high-frequency sonar coverage above and behind the submarine.

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