Sanders receives $56 million contract to produce Navy Combat DF systems.

NASHUA, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 1997--Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, has received a $56 million contract from the department of the Navy for continued production of AN/SRS-1A Combat Direction Finding (Combat DF) systems for installation on a variety of U.S. Navy ships.

Under the contract, Sanders will provide seven complete systems, consisting of distributed deck-edge and mast-mounted antenna arrays and equipment racks, and three upgrade field kits for deliveries over the next two years. The contract also includes options for 16 additional systems to be delivered through 2002, for a total value of $125 million. Since production began in 1986, Sanders has produced and delivered 22 Combat DF systems to the Navy.

Combat DF is a shipboard radio signal detection, acquisition, data management and direction finding system. It employs advanced methods of detecting, sorting and tracking of hostile emitters to provide indications and warning and to support over-the-horizon targeting.

Sanders is an operating unit of the Lockheed Martin Electronics Sector, a leader in the design, development and manufacture of electronics systems for the global aerospace and defense marketplace. Sanders is a major producer of electronic combat and self protection systems, and is the industry leader in the development of automated mission planning systems. Other major business areas include tactical communications, surveillance and intelligence systems; avionics and space electronics; microwave electronics subsystems; and commercial telecommunications systems.

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