Lockheed Provides Submarine Situational Awareness

Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors, Liverpool, New York, is being awarded a $13,124,804 contract modification to exercise an option for the procurement of four low-cost conformal array (LCCA) production units and engineering and technical services. The LCCA is a passive planar array mounted on the aft submarine sail structure that is integrated with the acoustic rapid, commercially available off-the-shelf, insertion AN/BQQ-10 system to provide situational awareness and collision avoidance for improved tactical control in high density environments. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity.