Leonardo DRS, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRS) announced today that it was awarded a contract from NAVSEA to provide AN/SPQ-9B radar design agent and engineering services. The contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value to more than $26 million.
Under the contract, DRS will provide system engineering, software development, hardware design, installation, safety, test, product updates, system upgrade, and configuration management support.
“We are very proud to be selected as the design agent on SPQ-9B and are honored to support this critical air and surface threat detection program for the Navy,” said Cari Ossenfort, senior vice president and general manager of the Leonardo DRS Naval Electronics business unit. “Our agility, proven engineering processes as well as our experienced team are the key reasons we are a trusted partner to NAVSEA and PEO Integrated Warfare Systems.”
The AN/SPQ-9B is an X-band, pulse Doppler, frequency-agile radar designed specifically for the littoral environment. It boasts a very high clutter improvement factor, supporting a very low false track rate in littoral and high clutter environments. The radar scans out to the horizon and performs simultaneous and automatic air and surface target detection and tracking of low flying anti-ship cruise missiles, surface threats, and low/slow flying aircraft, UAVs, periscopes, and helicopters.
This award builds upon DRS’s existing RF and EW systems capabilities and expands the support DRS has provided for AN/SPQ-9B over the past six years. This work exemplifies DRS’s deep experience as a leader in complex design and manufacturing, supporting a wide range of missions. The company’s capabilities extend across all domains to support naval, ground, air, space, and cyber missions in areas of sensing, force protection, computer networking, as well as naval power and propulsion systems.
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