Navy orders shipboard electronic-warfare systems from Lockheed Martin

摘要

U.S. Navy surface warfare experts are ordering advanced electronic-warfare (EW) systems for surface warships, such as aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships, cruisers, and destroyers under terms of a $153.9 million contract modification. 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 situ-ational awareness. SEWIP Block 2 provides improved electronic support receivers and combat system interfaces, and expands the receiver and antenna group to help surface electronic-warfare capabilities keep pace with growing threats.