Military & Aerospace Electronics:

U.S. Navy surface warfare experts are ordering advanced electronic warfare (EW) systems for aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, under terms of a $100.8 million contract announced on Friday.

Officials of the Naval Sea Systems Command, in Washington, are asking engineers at the Northrop Grumman Corp. Mission Systems segment, in Linthicum Heights, Md., to build the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 3 electronic attack systems and hardware design modifications for aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships.

SEWIP is an evolutionary acquisition program to upgrade the existing out-of-production AN/SLQ-32(V) shipboard EW system, and to provide improved anti-ship missile defense and situational awareness…

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