Military & Aerospace Electronics

U.S. Navy missile-defense experts are asking the DRS Laurel Technologies segment of Leonardo DRS in Johnstown, Pa., to provide AN/SPQ-9B shipboard anti-ship missile defense (ASMD) radar systems to help protect U.S. Navy surface warships from enemy anti-ship missiles.

Officials of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington announced a $30.1 million order to DRS Laurel in late March to build as many as 59 AN/SPQ-9B radar systems.

DRS in April 2018 displaced Northrop Grumman Corp. as the Navy’s AN/SPQ-9B shipboard radar contractor in a $64.3 million deal. That contract, which combined purchases for the Navy and the government of Japan, included options that could bring its cumulative value to $263 million.

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