US Navy Orders $800Mln Prototype Systems for Electromagnetic War – Pentagon
The US Navy has awarded contracts worth $800 million to 12 major high tech defense contractors to develop new systems to integrate the different functions needed to wage and defend against electromagnetic war, the Department of Defense said in a press release.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The US contactors will seek to integrate radio frequencies used in electronic warfare, radar, communications and information operations into a common set of multi-function electronics software and hardware systems designed to be modular and scalable across platforms, the Pentagon explained on Monday.
The new radio frequency systems will function in combat and command, control, communications, computers and in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems, the release explained.
The contracts were awarded to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, EOIR Technologies, SI2 Technologies, S2 Corporation, Sea Corporation, Rockwell Collins, Physical Optics, and TiCom Geomanics, the Pentagon stated.
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