US Navy Awards USD 43.8 Mln Contract to Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors, Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a $43.8 million worth modification to previously awarded fixed-price-incentive contract for the production of fiscal 2013 Multi-Mission Signal Processor equipment, Ballistic Missile Defense equipment and associated spares and engineering services for USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51),USS Mitscher (DDG 57) and USS Milius (DDG 69).

Work will be performed in Moorestown, N.J., Clearwater, Fla. and Akron, Ohio,  and is expected to be completed by June 2015.

The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington D.C., is the contracting activity.

• The USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), named for Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN (1901–1996), is the lead ship of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers. She was laid down by the Bath Iron Works company at Bath, Maine, on 6 December 1988, and launched on 16 September 1989 by Mrs. Arleigh Burke.
• USS Mitscher (DDG-57) became the second United States Navy warship named to honor Admiral Marc A. Mitscher (1887–1947), famed naval aviator and World War II aircraft carrier task group commander. In 1988 the U.S. Navy contracted with Ingalls Shipbuilding, in Pascagoula, Mississippi to build the seventh ship of the Arleigh Burke class. She was commissioned on December 10, 1994.
• The USS Milius (DDG-69) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. Her namesake is Commander Paul L. Milius (1928-1968) of U.S. Navy squadron VO-67.

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Naval Today Staff, January 25, 2013