Navy looks to ITT Exelis for EW system to protect ships from new threat

摘要

Electronic warfare (EW) experts at the ITT Exelis Electronic Systems division in Van Nuys, Calif., are helping U.S. Navy researchers develop an add-on advanced EW system to protect surface warships from a newly discovered, yet undisclosed, immediate threat to Navy fleet operations. Officials of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington announced their intention last month to award contracts cumulatively worth as much as $65 million to ITT Exelis to help Navy shipboard electronics researchers build and install an embarkable prototype EW system on several Navy surface ships.