Navy orders shipboard electronic
warfare systems from Lockheed
Martin in $153.9 million contract
July 15, 2015
WASHINGTON, 15 July 2015. U.S. Navy surface warfare experts are
ordering advanced electronic warfare (EW) systems for surface warships
like aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships, cruisers, and destroyers
under terms of a $153.9 million contract modification announced Friday.
Officials of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington are asking
engineers at the Lockheed Martin Radar Systems segment in Liverpool,
N.Y., to build Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP)
Block 2 systems for fiscal 2015.
SEWIP is an evolutionary acquisition program to upgrade the existing
out-of-production AN/SLQ-32(V) EW system and provide improved
anti-ship missile defense and situational awareness.
SEWIP Block 2 provides improved electronic support receivers and
combat system interface and expands the receiver and antenna group
to help surface electronic warfare capabilities keep pace with growing threats.
Lockheed Martin Radar Systems won a Navy award for block 2 in late
2009, leading a team of ITT Electronic Systems, Cobham Defence
Electronic Systems, Research Associates Syracuse, and Azure
Summit Technology of Fairfax, Va.
Since the SEWIP program started in 2002, General Dynamics
Advanced Information Systems (AIS) in Fairfax, Va., acted as prime
contractor for SEWIP blocks 1A, 1B1, 1B2, and 1B3.
The Lockheed Martin Block 2 SEWIP design is based on its integrated
common electronics warfare system (ICEWS), which enables rapid
reconfiguring of the system with commercial technology.
Mercury Systems in Chelmsford, Mass., for example, is providing
advanced radio frequency (RF) microwave tuners and intermediate
frequency (IF) products for SEWIP Block 2. Lockheed Martin chose the
Mercury Echotek series microwave tuner and digital receiver, which are
optimized for fast tuning and high performance, Mercury officials say.
Developed by Raytheon in the 1970s, the original AN/SLQ-32 systems
employed passive radar technology for early warning, identification and
tracking of enemy threats. Subsequent upgrades provided an additional
active capability for simultaneous jamming of several different threats.
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Last February the Northrop Grumman Corp. Navigation and Maritime
Systems Division in Linthicum, Md., won $267 million Navy contract to
develop and build SEWIP Block 3 to make further upgrades to the
AN/SLQ-32 with new technologies for early detection, signal analysis, threat
warning, and protection from anti-ship missiles. There are three established
SEWIP block upgrades and a fourth is planned.
On Friday's contract modification Lockheed Martin will do the work in Syracuse,
N.Y; Lansdale, Pa.; and Chelmsford, Mass., and should be finished by April 2018.
For more information contact Lockheed Martin Radar Systems
online athttp://lockheedmartin.com, or Naval Sea Systems Command
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