WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Lockheed secured a deal worth some $100 million to upgrade Navy ship sensor technology, the Department of Defense said in a press release.
"Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems [of] Manassas, Virginia is being awarded a $100.4 million… contract for procurement of Technical Insertion-16 Acoustic — Rapid-Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Insertion (A-RCI) systems, spares, and pre-cable kits," the announcement said on Friday.
The A-RCI Technical Insertion 16 program provides significant improvements in acoustic performance by upgrading ship sensor processing, the Defense Department explained.
The A-RCI is a sonar system that integrates and improves towed array, hull array, sphere array, and other ship sensor processing through rapid insertion of commercial-off-the-shelf-based hardware and software, the announcement added.
