LM and Raytheon tie up for USN EW contract
Lockheed Martin has announced that it is teaming with Raytheon to compete for the US Navy’s electronic attack anti-ship missile requirement.
In a statement released on 31 January the company said that the navy’s Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 3 upgrade will seek to ‘cost effectively enhance the electronic attack capability of its AN/SLQ-32 V(3) and V(4) electronic warfare systems to counter threat technology advances’.
‘SEWIP Block 3 is the latest upgrade in an evolutionary succession the [US] navy is pursuing for its EW system. Each upgrade incrementally adds new defensive technologies and functional capabilities,’ the statement read.
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