Lockheed Martin Scores Over $10Mln Award for Undersea Warfare Systems

Lockheed Martin has been awarded $10,816,910 to produce surface warship undersea warfare systems, the US Department of Defense said in a press release.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The system searches, detects, classifies, localizes and tracks undersea contacts; engages and evades submarines, mine-like small objects as well as torpedo threats, the release said.

"Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training is being awarded a $10,861,910 previously awarded contract for fiscal 2016 production of AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Surface Ship Undersea Warfare Systems," the release stated on Thursday.

The contract involves foreign military sales to Japan, the release also noted.

Work will be performed in the US states of Pennsylvania, New York, Florida and Massachusetts and is expected to be completed by September 2019.