Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract by the U.S.
Navy to supply three AN/SPQ-9B radar systems for amphibious and Arleigh
Burke class ships. Under the $20.4 million contract award, Northrop
Grumman will supply three AN/SPQ-9B radar systems for delivery in the
second quarter of 2015. This contract adds to the 53 radar systems the
company has already delivered, or is under contract to deliver. Northrop
Grumman began low-rate initial production of the AN/SPQ-9B in 2000 and
full-rate production in 2004. |
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This latest series of radars will be installed on
the LPD-27, LHA-7 and DDG-79 ships. The latter will be the first guided
missile destroyer (DDG) to be modernized, which will lead the way for
installation of the AN/SPQ-9B radars onto the upcoming Flight III DDG-51
destroyers.
"This is a significant step for Northrop Grumman because it leads
the way for a potential of more than 60 DDG-51 radar backfits as well
16 forward fits on the next Flight III destroyers," said Bill Hannon,
vice president of Northrop Grumman's Maritime Systems business unit.
"The AN/SPQ-9B's performance supplies greater radar capability
to surface ships, and represents another milestone in our long term
legacy of supplying radars to the Navy."
The high-resolution, X-band AN/SPQ-9B radar system will greatly improve
the vessels' ability to defend against small high-speed threats, such
as surface-skimming anti-ship missiles, and will be integrated with
the ships' fire-control systems. The multimission radar system is designed
to detect small fast-moving targets in the presence of clutter from
ocean waves, rain and land returns, as well as chaff and jamming.
The work will be performed at Northrop Grumman's facilities in Baltimore
beginning in the second quarter of 2014.
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